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Oscar Romero embodied Pope Francis’ call to Catholics to go beyond the Church doors into their surrounding world and to reach out to those in need and badly treated....
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Deacon Tony Hoban, of the Diocese of Parramatta, has been elected to the Board of the International Diaconate Centre (IDC)....
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After 38 days Pope Francis leaves the Gemelli Hospital....
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We must be conscious that the liturgy is not first of all our activity but rather our response to God, who acts first, to Christ who makes himself present among us. ...
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The prophet Isaiah boldly challenges us to choose the way of fasting most acceptable to the Lord: “Releasing those bound unjustly … setting free the oppressed … sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless, clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning...
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Between 2022 and 2024 Bishop Greg Homeming OCD delivered three series of Lenten Talks, exploring the spirituality of three renowned Carmelites - St John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila and St Therese of Lisieux. ...
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Lent calls us to reflect on sin – my sin, your sin, the nation’s sin, the church’s sin, the world’s sin....
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As we accompany Jesus this holy season, we started in the depths of temptation and weakness, and followed him to the heights of the transfiguration and contemplatio. But we know that Lent leads us inexorably to Jerusalem, and to the events of Holy Week. At the Last Supper, the...
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There was a blessed and eerie feeling to our Ash Wednesday celebration in Brisbane this year. As I said to the congregation, there is nothing like a pending tropical cyclone to reinforce those words ‘Remember you are dust, and unto dust you will return’,...