This week I have been thinking about the reorganisation of the Church in Melbourne. I was listening to a podcast on urbanization and the...

Today I would like to focus on two things that come out of the readings: first, the movement from fear to hope; second, the link between...

In our first reading last week, we had Moses asking the people, who is your God? The Lord? Or the gods of the surrounding people? The...

This year is year B in our liturgical cycle and so we have readings from the gospel of Mark. But because the gospel of Mark is shorter...

Today, I would like to set some homework first. I’d like to encourage everyone today to read a certain poem out loud. That poem is called...

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of St Mary of the Cross Mackillop. We also bring to an end National Vocations Awareness Week; though, I...

What do we want from Jesus? Is it simply a free feed, or to see a special effects show? Is it to be part of a mob, a crowd, where we tell...

Over the next few Sundays, we focus on chapter 6 of John’s gospel, the famous section on the Eucharist. Today, however, I would like to...

In every proper Catholic mass, anywhere in the world, two people are prayed for by name in the Eucharistic prayer. There’s the Pope, and...

The mission to preach repentance. The mission to preach the Good News. How do we fulfil this command of Christ? Our readings today seem...

At the invitation of their parish priests, 170 lay people attended a gathering at the Veneto Club, Bulleen, on May 22 to hear proposals...

The last few weeks we have looked in different ways at how it is so easy to get our relationship with God round the wrong way. That is:...

It is interesting to read this week’s gospel with last week’s readings. We might remember that last week, we had Job as our first reading...

What’s going on in our gospel today? What are the disciples trying to do? Clearly the disciples feared for their safety. They would have...

I have mentioned a number of times before the advice a friend gave me on reading Jesus’s parables: look for what doesn’t make sense....