May 11, 2021
In less than two weeks, our second session of our Diocesan Synod will have been held, and hopefully celebrated as a positive and profound step in your synodal journey to Building the Kingdom of God Together in our diocese.
May 04, 2021
Here we are, less than 20 days out from our Diocesan Synod, so my last week has been spent with the staff from Pastoral Ministries and the members of the Synod Working Party busily refining the Synod documents and the Five Foundations Papers, thanks to the many valuable submissions, along with working on the practical reality of running the Synod across six hubs.
April 27, 2021
I am sure it will come as no surprise to my readers that what has occupied me during this past week has been the reading of the synod submission responses to our contemplative dialogue process during Lent – Building the Kingdom of God Together – Our Journey. On average there have been fifty submissions each week to the Five Foundations.
April 13, 2021
I don’t know about you, but I have been captured by the deaths and three funerals that have occurred in the past week: that of Carla Zampatti, Prince Philip and Cardinal Idris Cassidy.
April 06, 2021
This message, written on Sunday 4 April, is special to me in many ways – it is Easter Sunday, it is Allen and my wedding anniversary, and it is also our son’s 40th birthday. So much of this is about new life, new beginnings and about faith, hope and love. This is what Easter stands for and I am glad to have been brought up in a faith-filled Christian Catholic family which provided me with a meaningful life and a reason to serve.