Lent Discussion Group Notes for Sunday 3 March
PARISH
The Things that Really Matter
The Things that Really Matter – First Sunday of Lent Lent, with its fasting, abstinence and alms giving, aims to help us deal with the modern world’s weapons of mass distraction. They proliferate on every side. Money, work, possessions, shopping, noise, eating, the mass media – these compete noisily
On Carrying a Scandal Biblically
This is an interesting and refreshing article on child sexual abuse by Ron Rohleiser who is a priest, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and president of the Oblate school of theology, San Antonio, texas , USA. Click here to read article.
Religious Groups Free to Discriminate
One of our parishioners, Robert Barnes, embraces the opportunity to use the Blog on our new webpage. He believes that it provides an opportunity for the St Canice Community to have their voices heard on matters that affect their Church. “The Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill was introduced in parliament
Feast of the Epiphany
THE EPIPHANY and the FOURTH WISE MAN In his homily today, Father Chris recited a humourous poem by Brisbane poet Dermot Horgan to reinforce the gospel message of the Three Wise Men. He was saying, “I don’t see a fourth wise man at our crib on the altar – perhaps
Musical Appreciation at St Canice’s in 2012
Opera to Street Choir . . . in a week – and Taize, Gospel and Mozart Mass coming up before Christmas. There’s so much more than ‘Sunday Mass’ attracting people to St Canice’s in Elizabeth Bay here in Sydney. TAIZÉ AT ST CANICE’S Brother
Christmas Brisbane
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Midnight Mass 2012
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Midnight Mass
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Advent Activity Discussions ” . . . being part of Etty Hellisum’s world for four weeks”
Our Advent Discussion group has been meeting over the past four Sundays to discuss the life of Etty. We started out by reading a foreword to Etty’s book written by Archbishop Rowan Williams. He wrote that Etty’s diaries offer ‘exceptional witness to the dawning of God in someone’s consciousness’. But,