February 15, 2022
I love the way our Sunday scripture readings are relevant and provide us with guidance for our lives each week. For those who are able to attend Mass or who read the scriptures daily, they too find what they read applicable to their lives. And so, for this particular Sunday, people are being asked to trust in God both now and for eternity. The response to our Responsorial Psalm was, “Happy are they who hope in the Lord.”
February 08, 2022
I am aware that the first Sunday in February (Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time) has been designated by the Australian bishops as Word of God Sunday, typically held on the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time in other parts of the world.
February 08, 2022
In March 2020, Pope Francis announced that the theme for the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2023 would be “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission”.
February 01, 2022
This first day of February marks the beginning of my work year in the Diocese. We are still living in uncertain times, and I am conscious that many are feeling the anxiety, stress and strain of the past two years.
November 23, 2021
I take up my usual posture on this very wet Sunday evening, having returned home from Mass on the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
November 16, 2021
It is difficult to know how to begin this week’s message, with the news of the death of Bishop Bill Wright. Like me, many of you may have been thinking of him and holding him in prayer over the past few months, but nothing prepares you for the finality of someone not being there anymore. I have been struck lately by his empty chair in our Cathedral, and now it is really empty as we await a new Bishop.