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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’,...
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In our Lenten journey we ask ourselves what matters to us. We also reflect on God’s calling to follow Jesus, on our sinfulness, and on how God overwhelmed or sins by the gift of forgiveness....
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Often, we are genuinely sorry for our sins, but it does not always lead to a change of ways in that we continue to confess the same old sins over and over again....
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This Lent, as we share in the grace of the Jubilee Year, I would like to propose a few reflections on what it means to journey together in hope, and on the summons to conversion that God in his mercy addresses to all of us, as individuals and as a...
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As we enter Holy Week, we invite you to join our local communities for this special time of renewal and hope....
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Many parishes around our Diocese of Parramatta are engaged in Lenten initiatives. Good Shepherd Parish Plumpton's "High Five for Lent" project directly supports asylum seekers and refugees through contributing to the House of Welcome’s Food Bank....
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On 8 March, around twenty people from across the Diocese of Parramatta came together for a Lenten Scripture night, presented by Dr Laurie Woods and facilitated by the Pastoral Formation team....
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Living the 40-day season of preparation for Easter within the constraints of a daily pattern that remains largely unchanged....
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Bishop Vincent's Homily for the First Sunday of Lent, 6 March 2022...