Author: Michael O’Connor

Catholic Schools

Environment placed in perspective

June 09, 2020

Two primary schools in the Diocese went back to basics for World Environment Day on Friday June 5, allowing students to make some poignant observations.

Aurora

Hope comes with a better-than-written guarantee

June 02, 2018 Comments

Adam and Eve were hopeless parents! They left their kids nothing to look forward to but drudgery and death.

Aurora

Walls made of living stone

April 07, 2018 Comments

“The world is but a ship, and not thy home.” When I walked up the steps to enter St Therese’s Church at New Lambton as a child my eyes were drawn to these words carved in the masonry above the door.

Aurora

What does St Augustine have in common with fallen sporting heroes?

February 07, 2018 Comments

How hard it is when our heroes fall.

Church

An exciting and scary enterprise

January 23, 2018

Conversing with Brendon Mannyx about his life journey so far, it is hard to push away images of Abram setting off from home to a foreign land or of Ruth leaving all behind to accompany Naomi to an unknown destiny. Harder still, when Brendon tells of his pilgrimages and faith adventures overseas, to dismiss the soundtrack of leaving boats behind on familiar shores to “follow you again, my Lord”.