WelCom November 2020 Fr James Lyons When Jesus told Pilate he’d come to bear witness to the truth, he knew he’d sealed his fate. Pilate’s response, What is truth? is the response of a person whose mind is wearied from alternatives and compromise and closed to the possibility of finding the key to a completely […]
WelCom November 2020 Thinking after Covid-19: guests at the Lord’s table The pandemic has made anyone who enters a church sensitive like never before to how we are arranged in the building. Two metres apart! No bunching up! Signs on seats where we may sit. Tape on other seats making them off limits. Signs on […]
WelCom November 2020 Solemnity of All Saints Gospel, Matthew 5:1-12 1 Seeing the crowds, Jesus went onto the mountain. And when he was seated his disciples came to him. 2 Then he began to speak. This is what he taught them:3 ‘How blessed are the poor in spirit: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.4 Blessed […]
WelCom October 2020 Speaking from the Vatican on September 1, 2020, Pope Francis urged nations to fight global warming according to the 2015 Paris climate accord. Modern society has pushed the planet beyond its limits and the time to fix a climate emergency was running out, he said. ‘Our constant demand for growth and an […]
WelCom October 2020 Sr Patricia Powell rsm of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, spoke about creation and ecological conversion at the Australasia Catholic Press Association conference in her hometown of Bathurst, NSW, September 2019. Coinciding with The Season of Creation, 1 September–4 October, Patricia’s presentation is republished in […]
WelCom October 2020 Ko Whiringa-ā-Nuku-te Marama o te Rōhārio: Kia whaitake te Rōhārio Fr James Lyons When Pope John Paul II introduced the Mysteries of Light into the Rosary in 2002, he was completing ‘the mysteries of Christ’s public ministry between his Baptism and his Passion’ ensuring the Rosary would be a more complete ‘compendium […]
WelCom October 2020 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel, Matthew 21:33-43 33 Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: ‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it […]
WelCom October 2020 ‘Ka hanga e ahau taku hāhi ki runga ki tēnei kāmaka’ On Sunday 23 August 2020, 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A, Bishop Peter Cullinane spoke to parishioners at St Joseph’s Church in Dannevirke. Drawing from the Gospel reading, Matthew 16: 13-20, Bishop Peter honours Pope Francis as St Peter’s successor, […]
WelCom September 2020 Sr Patricia Powell rsm of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, delivered the following presentation to Catholic media at the Australasia Catholic Press Association conference in Bathurst, NSW September last year. Sr Patricia’s presentation is re-published in WelCom in two parts, with permission. Part 1 The […]
WelCom September 2020 Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel, Matthew 18:15-20 15‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. 16If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: whatever the […]