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Parish Priest Fr Percival Sevare said Pentecost "changed frightened disciples into courageous witnesses. It transformed a fearful group hiding behind locked doors into a Church that would spread throughout the whole world.”...
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In the lead up to Pentecost, local faith and community leaders gathered in Parramatta for the annual NSW Ecumenical Council Service of Prayer for Christian Unity and Fundraising Dinner to focus on unity, justice and peace. ...
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That same Spirit - the same power that strengthened the apostles - dwells in us today. Wake up to this reality! We are called to be a chosen people led by the Spirit, not a frozen people. ...
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Pentecost points us to divine renovation which is the new heaven and new earth. No easy task in a world where the strong make the rules and the privileged hold on to the existing structures of power. No smooth sailing enterprise when the myth of individualism and self-made prosperity...
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I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in Poland. I gave a couple of university lectures and I witnessed the ongoing power and witness of Pope John Paul II whose life embodied the Polish challenge of faith and culture to the power of the state and foreign influences including...
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Each Pentecost, we remind ourselves that the images of God’s transforming Holy Spirit are wind and fire. That is the incredible personal presence we have inside each of us....
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The strongest winds of 2025 whipped Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains over the weekend – an uncanny echo of the first Pentecost, when a “sound like the rush of a violent wind” filled the house where the disciples were gathered (Acts 2:2). That same Spirit stirred across 47 parishes...
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We must explore new ways of being together and living with one another and with the planet so that we can be a source of hope for the world. This is our Pentecostal mandate....
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Wishing you a blessed Pentecost. On Pentecost Sunday, we celebrate the time after the Resurrection of Jesus when Jews from anywhere and everywhere were gathered together, able to understand each other, despite their national, cultural and linguistic differences....