Newsletter – 4th Sunday of Lent. Year C.
REFLECTION by Fr Michael Tate Truth and Reconciliation For Jews, pigs are ritually unclean, so that living in a pig sty would make this young man unapproachable. So,…
Newsletter – 3rd Sunday of Lent. Year C.
REFLECTION by Fr Michael Tate Politics, Economics, and the Gardener There was a terrible disaster when a building fell down killing eighteen people. Some said, ‘Oh, those killed…
Newsletter – 2nd Sunday of Lent. Year C.
REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart Abraham and Sarah were old and childless, and they longed for children. Descendants, like stars, meant to them a permanent…
Newsletter – 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C.
REFLECTION by Nick Brodie ‘Wars begin from the tongue’, says Pope Francis. Reflecting on today’s Gospel passage, he draws our attention to the importance of choosing our words…
Newsletter – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C.
SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY by Brendan Byrne SJ Today’s Gospel continues Luke’s instruction to his disciples known as the Sermon on the Plain. As if the Beatitudes (and Woes) that…
Newsletter – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C.
REFLECTION by Fr Michael Tate Not a Celestial Joke! Blessed are the poor? – the hungry? – those who mourn? What is Jesus doing in these Beatitudes? Jesus…
Newsletter – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C.
REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart Try to picture what Simon Peter was like. He was a very proud man, and his reputation as a fisherman…
Newsletter – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C – AUSTRALIA DAY
Australia Day Reflection by Fr Michael Tate The Beatitudes we just heard are at the beginning of the ‘Sermon on the Mount’. This sermon provides a picture of…
Newsletter – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C.
Gospel Reflection Today’s first reading from Isaiah is one of several references in the Old Testament that use wedding imagery – bride and groom – to describe the…
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Newsletter – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year A.
REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart The Pharisees and the Herodians try to trip Jesus up, but he won’t fall for their setup. They ask him…
Newsletter – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year A.
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Newsletter – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year A.
REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart This parable couldn’t be more obvious. The vineyard owner’s son is killed by the tenants, so then the vineyard owner…
Newsletter – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year A.
REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart These are fierce words that Jesus gives us: that tax collectors and prostitutes are entering heaven in greater numbers than…