The Year of Mercy ends but Mercy endures!
“It’s no use going back to yesterday,” wrote Lewis Carroll 150 years ago in Alice in Wonderland, “because I was a different person then.”
GALLERY: 150 years Bishop Murray Pilgrimage
More than 70 pilgrims walked 12kms from Corcoran Parish Centre, George St, Morpeth to St John the Baptist Cathedral, Church Street Maitland on Saturday 29 October.
World Mission Month Mass
On Wednesday 25 October, Children's Mission Day, representatives from more than twenty schools across the diocese gathered at St Francis Xavier’s Church, Belmont, to celebrate World Mission Month.
Wisdom from a self-confessed seeker
Guest speaker at the Springtime Dinner at St Therese’s, New Lambton, Gail O’Brien, describes herself as “a self-confessed seeker”.
Hugs and Handshakes in PNG
What does one do when the reality of retirement fills the mind? Paint houses, play golf, potter in the garden, join a men’s shed, trip around Australia. Norelle, my wife, said “Why not volunteer?”
I admit that volunteering was the furthest thought from my mind.
Climate change has led to hunger and thirst across the Pacific
A major hospital needs to be relocated, graves are in danger of being washed away and many millions of people have struggled with hunger and thirst according to a new report released today by Caritas Australia.
Fr Bedi Asmon SVD using music for mission in Brazil
Fr Bernadinus (Bedi) Asmon SVD, a young missionary from Indonesia, who undertook his formation in Australia, is now living and ministering in Brazil where he has discovered that music is the common language with the people he serves.
Local priest encounters Pope Francis
Assistant priest at Mayfield, Mayfield West and Stockton, Fr Stephen Hill, recently met Pope Francis in Rome.