TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Missionary of Mercy
On Saturday night, Fr Richard Shortall SJ was commissioned by Bishop Bill to be our Missionary of Mercy (MOM). Fr Richard had just travelled home to Australia from Rome where Pope Francis commissioned him, along with about 700 other priests, to be priests of mercy for anyone who might seek God’s love and mercy.
Mercy On Wheels: The Journey Begins
“It’s appropriate that Fr Richard should begin his mission on wheels here at St Joseph’s, East Maitland, because it’s where Fr John Therry began his mission back in the 1830s.”
Annual Rite of Election Takes Place
Bishop Bill presided at the Liturgy of the Word marking the Rite of Election on Sunday 14 February at Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Welcome Sr Lucie!
I was very privileged to receive Australian citizenship on 26 January, 2016. This is a great joy for me and also a joy for the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters who have been present in Australia, especially in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, for six years.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Facilitating a Truly Human Encounter
I believe that this Lenten season in the Year of Mercy is truly a time for self-examination, self-reflection, reconciliation, penance, forgiveness and healing. We all err in thought, word, in what we have done and it what we have failed to do.
Newcastle Law Term at Christ Church Cathedral
Dean of Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rev Andrew Doohan, gave the address to mark the beginning of the 2016 Law Term at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, on 3 February. He took as his theme, “justice without mercy can never be true justice”.
Shrove Tuesday at Aberdeen
On Shrove Tuesday, St Mark’s Anglican Church parishioners played host to the parishioners of St Thomas’ Aberdeen and St James’ Muswellbrook along with the parishioners of Spring Creek and St Alburn’s, Muswellbrook.
Did you Know? Taking a Closer Look at Shrove Tuesday
The name ‘Shrove Tuesday’ comes from the old English word for going to confession – we are ‘scraped’ or ‘shriven’ of our sins. It is the same word that gives us ‘scribe’ and ‘inscription’, and the German schreib, meaning ‘write’. When we are released from our sins, it is as though we are being scraped clean!