June 14, 2022
We have just returned home from spending a few days on the Gold Coast, visiting some of our children and grandchildren. The new M1 is a wonderful road, especially after travelling north for so many years during its construction. We are very blest, in Australia, to be able to travel such distances in relative safety.
June 07, 2022
It is Pentecost Sunday, as I sit to write this week’s message. I am mindful that during the past week we have celebrated National Reconciliation Week and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Today, Sunday 5 June, is World Environment Day.
May 31, 2022
As I write this message, I am aware that we are participating in National Reconciliation Week.
May 24, 2022
The phone rang as we came in from Mass and Spencer, our five-year-old grandson, said "hello" followed by the question: "If God created the world in seven days, how did the dinosaurs disappear so quickly before God created humans?" How is that for a deep question, evidently, one that he had been pondering all day.
I spent today reading some diocesan responses to the Bishop’s Synod on Synodality. Like our grandson, there are many people seeking answers to profound questions as to how the Spirit is calling us to be Church at this present time.
May 17, 2022
I am conscious that I write this message at the beginning of Laudato Si’ week (16 – 25 May), marking the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care For Our Common Home.
May 10, 2022
I am writing this week’s message at the end of Mother’s Day, and I hope you had a lovely family day on Sunday 8 May.