PARISH

Volunteers vie to serve festive cheer

The logic is simple for Rob Caslick, founder of the Inside Out Organic Soup Kitchen in Sydney’s east. The most nutritious and healthy food should be eaten by those who need it most: the homeless and needy. On Wednesday, 15 volunteers served 70 marginalised people prime cuts of lamb and

Read More

Advent Activity – DISCUSSION 4 (23 December 2012)

ETTY’S WAY!!! Learning to Shake the Hand that Holds the Hypodermic Learning to die well may be one of life’s great achievements. Even animals will sometimes display the art – through some wondrous instinct, I guess. I saw this once with a fifteen-year-old Labrador we had – named ‘Shane’. He

Read More

Special Celebration Advent Mass

Rejoice! On this Gaudete Sunday, Parishioners and guests of St Canice’s in Elizabeth Bay Sydney gathered to give thanks for the year and for our Parish Renewal Process with a special celebration Advent Mass. Our Cantor, Pascal and Organist Christine chose 
Ceremonial Music by Mozart, Haydn and Schubert to suit the

Read More

Advent Activity – Conversation Starter on “the Self”

This is the second week in our Advent Activity Discussion Group – “Conversion of Heart: the story of Etty Hillesum”. We welcome your attendance at St Canice’a at 11.30 am on Sundays up until Christmas. For those who can not make it in person, we invite you to read the

Read More

New refugee bill ‘retrograde and reprehensible’

JRS has criticised the Australian Government’s decision to excise the mainland from the migration zone, saying it amounts to a selective de facto withdrawal from the Refugee Convention and undermines the international refugee protection regime. Click here to read the article. A reflection

Read More

Loyola Montserrat – The Way of St Ignatius of Loyola

The Province of Catalonia (Tarragona) in Spain is the custodian of one of the great treasures of the Society of Jesus: the Cave of Saint Ignatius in Manresa. It is not far from Barcelona, which itself embodies a rich Ignatian heritage. Take a few moments of quietude to view the

Read More

Royal Commission

Father Frank Brennan, Jesuit priest, Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University and Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, discusses the fundamental challenges ahead for the church and the call for a royal commission. Click here to listen to the interview on ABC Lateline

Read More