by | 18 Aug, 2018 | Quote for the Week

The Church fathers (writing post New Testament) affirm the apostolic faith in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from his side. St Augustine of Hippo I have no taste for the...

by | 18 Aug, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Quote for National Vocations Awareness Week Trust in God Lord, I’ve no idea where I’m going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself. And the fact that I think I’m doing your will, doesn’t mean that...

by | 5 Aug, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Quotes for National Vocations Awareness Week “The Christian vocation, just like every particular vocation, is born from within the People of God, and is a gift of divine mercy. The Church is the house of mercy, and it is the “soil” where vocations take root, mature...

by | 1 Jul, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday 2018 Despite all the horrendous stories of injustice and the untold thousands of chapters that could be written on the matter, it is heartening to recognise the mothers who have battled and largely succeeded in holding...

by | 25 Jun, 2018 | Quote for the Week

“John the Baptist stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence – unsettling us and leaving us not quite sure of how we feel about him….. And yet John seems hard to know, hard to like, even though we stand back in admiration of him. We...

by | 9 Jun, 2018 | Quote for the Week

From the Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate of the Holy Father Francis on the Call to Holiness in Today’s World. Always ask the Spirit what Jesus expects from you at every moment of your life and in every decision you must make, so as to discern its place in...

by | 28 May, 2018 | Quote for the Week

“May the Master reveal to you his divine presence. It is so pleasant and sweet, It gives so much strength to the soul, To believe that God loves us to the point of living in us, To become the companion of our exile, Our confidant, our friend at every moment”. Blessed...

by | 19 May, 2018 | Quote for the Week

“The Holy Spirit is the true protagonist – the leading character – of the Church. Unlike what happened in the Tower of Babel when men, intent on building a way to heaven with their own hands, ended up by destroying their capacity to understand one another...

by | 13 May, 2018 | Quote for the Week

“The Ascension of Christ means that he no longer belongs to the world of corruption and death, which conditions our life. It means that he belongs completely to God. He, the eternal Son, has taken our human being to the presence of God; he has taken with him flesh and...

by | 5 May, 2018 | Quote for the Week

This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (Jesus in John 15:12-13) One of Dorothy Day’s favourite passages from world literature occurs in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers...

by | 27 Apr, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Little fruit or plenty, there can be neither without him, because without him nothing can be done. “If you dwell in me, said Jesus, and my words dwell in you, you will ask for whatever you desire and it will be yours.” Can a person dwelling in Christ desire anything...

by | 20 Apr, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Vocations Sunday “The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort, you were made for greatness….. we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness”. – Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI “Do not be afraid of what God asks of you!...

by | 14 Apr, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul in the hands of God. Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent...

by | 8 Apr, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Jesus reveals the nature of God as that of a father who never gives up until he has forgiven the wrong and overcome rejection with compassion and mercy. Pope Francis The church is commissioned to announce the mercy of God, which is the beating heart of the Gospel. St...

by | 20 Mar, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Jesus said: I am the resurrection. Anyone who believes in me, even though that person dies, will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. John 11:25-26 “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” St. Augustine “If man...

by | 14 Mar, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Mercy is the Lord’s most powerful message. It is not easy to trust oneself to the mercy of God – but we must do it. From Jesus, we will not hear words of contempt or condemnation, but only words of love, of mercy, that invite us to conversion. “Neither do I...

by | 2 Mar, 2018 | Quote for the Week

“Ask the Lord that, as he went to cleanse the temple, he may come to cleanse your soul. We imagine that he comes with a whip of cords. … No, he doesn’t cleanse the soul with that! Do you know what kind of whip Jesus uses to cleanse our soul? Mercy. Open...

by | 24 Feb, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Jean Vanier set up L’Arche communities throughout the world for people with disabilities. He tells how in one of the communities there was a man called Pierre who had a mental disability. One day somebody asked Pierre, ‘Do you like praying?’ ‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘And...

by | 16 Feb, 2018 | Quote for the Week

The word Lent is from the Old English word for ‘Spring’. In Lent, we seek to turn away from the death of sin and prepare to embrace the new life of the Risen Lord. Lent: springtime of the spirit Each year the trees give us a lesson in renewal. First the bud, then the...

by | 9 Feb, 2018 | Quote for the Week

Above all, I urge the members of the Church to take up the Lenten journey with enthusiasm, sustained by almsgiving, fasting and prayer. If, at times, the flame of charity seems to die in our own hearts, know that this is never the case in the heart of God! He...