April 02, 2019
We have begun the fourth week of Lent with Laetare Sunday, coming from the first words of the Entrance Antiphon:
March 26, 2019
I find myself in Canberra for the weekend, with my son and his family, to attend Grandparent’s Day at Marist College, Canberra, which is on Monday 25 March, the feast of the Annunciation.
March 18, 2019
Transform us as you transfigured,
stood apart on Tabors’s height.
Lead us up our sacred mountains,
search us with revealing light.
Lift us from where we have fallen,
Full of questions, filled with fright.
These are the words of a hymn which we sang at our Cathedral this weekend, for the Second Sunday of Lent. The words were written by David Haas in his Song of the Transfiguration.
February 19, 2019
What an amazing and awesome week of commitment in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.
February 12, 2019
The week ahead is going to be a busy one for many in the diocese, and if you check out the diocesan calendar, which now is a regular feature in Dio Update, you will see the following events:
February 05, 2019
I have finally made it to my desk on this Sunday evening, partly due to my lack of motivation to do so, and also because of our viewing of the program on the ABC about ten years on from the Black Saturday bush fires in Victoria in 2009.
