Parish Blog

Dear friends – Today’s Parish Blog post is a letter to the parish to see if there are people who would be keen to share some leadership to have the church open for a few periods each week. This letter is in written form – and is also shared via a voice recording if you…

Dear friends – The image on the cover of our Parish Blog reflects a theme of the Mass prayers that I thought I’d focus on today. This Parish Blog post is not the full Mass (see Wednesday for full Mass) – but has the readings of the day for each of us to reflect on…

The cover image of today’s blog post – and the few other images in Today’s Parish Blog post – are simply picking up on yesterday’s featured theme: the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking document for the Church on the care of creation – Laudato Si. I really encourage you to spend a little time…

Yesterday’s Parish Blog post used the expression that we can all be shepherds to others and shepherds to God’s creation. That’s a good intro to today’s theme – which is an acknowledging of the 5th Anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking document; Laudato Is – On the Care of our Common Home.  We were reminded in a recent blog post here (Tuesday 5th May) where that…

Dear friends – Today’s blog post is a message to the Catholic Christians of Australia from the bishops. They wrote it the other day while they were at their periodic gathering and it was published today. This time they had to have their gathering online. As we know people often associate the image of a ‘shepherd’…

MARY and the month  of  MAY – The simple image on the cover of this weekend’s Parish Blog post reminds us of the tradition of honouring Mary in May. It seems that our tradition of doing this has some inspiration  way back among the ancient Greeks who dedicated the month of May to Artemis, the…

Dear friends –   Apologies that nothing was posted today in the Parish Blog space. So just this message now, late Friday: We’ve had some serious website problems on the server end which translated yesterday and earlier today into people seeing thick black bands across their screens and a blocking of our Parish Blog posts.…

Dear friends, The image on the cover of our Parish Blog post today is simply drawing attention to the memorial day of St Matthias. He’s the character in our faith story of course, who we hear of in the passage from the Acts of the Apostles that is the first reading set down for today’s…

A few images included for dog lovers today – just as a simple further way of picking up on a theme of connection and bondedness that comes through strongly in today’s Gospel. Today’s Parish Blog post is the full Mass of the day – but once again is using our Wednesday idea of inviting people to participate in a…

Dear friends –  Rightly so, during the COVID crisis, medical workers have been applauded for their selfless service. In countries like Brazil and USA, the numbers of daily deaths continue to occur in astonishing numbers. And even as a country like the UK is easing restrictions, yesterday’s COVID death numbers there for that SINGLE day…