We have before us today a real feast of Scripture. It is such a wonderful smorgasbord that it deserves out tasting a little of each of the courses provided. The prophet Isaiah (55:1) reminds us that the Lord says: Listen to me, and you will have good things to eat. This reminds us of our […]
Last night, at St. Peter Chanel church, we had the most wonderful Easter vigil Mass. Commencing with our Easter fire, we processed into the church, and sang the exultet – the proclamation of Easter joy . We listened to scripture readings from creation to the resurrection. We baptized two new adult members into our community […]
We have in today’s gospel, one of the most dramatic miracles of Jesus ministry. Indeed, in John’s Gospel it was the seventh and final miracle that he performed. It also appears to be the one that finally brought the Pharisees to the point of plotting to kill Jesus. And so this gospel flows into and […]
Today Scriptures are about leadership and authority. Indeed these words of scripture written thousands of years ago are today being fulfilled in our parish. The issue of leadership and authority is very much at the forefront of our lives at the moment. On the world scene, we are seeing dictatorships in Libya and Syria and […]
Numbers 11.29 The visit by Archbishop Mark Coleridge to our parish last week was a significant moment in our community life. He is the spiritual leader of all Catholics in Queensland, with diverse and far reaching responsibilities in the wider community , and we are very privileged to get a comprehensive visit from him so […]
One of the most powerful statements in the Scriptures, about Jesus mission and our mission, is that powerful sentence of John’s gospel. “I have come so that they may have life, and have it to the full”. (John 10:10) A group initiated in the parish of St Johns Wood – The Gap have been making […]
Let these words of mine remain in your heart and the soul. … Every one who listens to these words of mine and acts upon a will be like a sensible person who built the house upon the rock with the rain came down to floods rose bells blew they did not fall. (Matt 7 […]
Today’s gospel story is amazingly rich in the messages and encouragement that it offers us. It starts off with these four wonderful friends bringing a paralyzed man to Jesus. So committed are they to get help for their friend, they climb up on the house, pull apart the roof, and then lower their friend down, […]
This week’s gospel starts with a report that some foreigners from Greece had come to Jerusalem for the Passover festival, and they told Philip that they would like to see Jesus. Clearly Jesus had developed quite following and was being talked about throughout the region. Recently, I was talking to an army officer in my […]
Has anyone here had a mountaintop experience lately. Has anyone here had a mountain top experience at all. Maybe some people are wondering, what I am talking about. Let’s try to get in touch with that concept a bit. What do we experience when we go to a mountaintop….. Yes, we see far out into […]