22 April, 2020. Wednesday of Week 2 of Easter
All who seek the truth are already being guided by the light of Christ, even if they are not yet aware of it…
21 April, 2020. Tuesday of Week 2 of Easter
Willingness to share helps us keep our balance, and can bring real blessings into our lives…
20 April, 2020. Monday of Week 2 of Easter
The Easter season is a good time to again invite the Holy Spirit to be our fundamental guide in life…
Presider’s Page for 19 April (Easter 2 – Divine Mercy Sunday)
Even though Easter Week is now behind us, today’s liturgy is still filled with Jesus’ resurrection. We continue to celebrate that great event for the next six weeks, until Pentecost Sundayon the last day of May, the fiftieth and final day of Easter.
19 April, 2020. 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)
As we join in our Sunday Mass we are here to meet the risen Christ in person, just as St Thomas did…
18 April, 2020. Saturday of Easter Week
We can be inspired by the unbelievably good news that the Lord is alive and that we are destined to share in his risen life…
17 April, 2020. Friday of Easter Week
Even if we have failed in our friendship to him, he invites us to start afresh and cast our nets in a different direction.
16 April, 2020. Thursday of Easter Week
We need time to recognize that the risen Lord is indeed among us, saying to us what he said to his disciples, “Peace be with you”….
15 April, 2020. Wednesday of Easter Week
The places we try to get away from are where the seeds of new life will be found, for God can always bring light out of darkness….
14 April, 2020. Tuesday of Easter Week
We need to let ourselves be met by our risen Lord, as Mary Magdalene was. She has something to teach us about seeking the Lord even in our grief.
13 April, 2020. Monday of Easter Week
Easter assures us that God’s love is lifegiving, and the life God gives is more powerful than the evils we often inflict on each other……
12 April, 2020. Easter Sunday
Through the power of the resurrection, we can all have hope and joy, and go out to share them by our way of living…
Presider’s Page for 12 April 2020 (Easter Sunday in Pandemic)
This Easter morning we gather for a most unusual Easter celebration. Pandemic threatens to overwhelm, yet the Church insistently proclaims: Christ is risen! We still celebrate the central mystery of our faith, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He suffered on the cross and died for us, but now he has conquered death and fear! Filled with the spirit of Easter joy, let us proclaim the might and glory of God at this celebration!
11 April, 2020. The Easter Vigil
Jesus is more than a historical personage from the past; he is a person alive today. We encounter him not in history books but in life…
Lockdown: the Holy Saturday experience
This year millions of us are locked in our homes. We are not going out to work, not going out to play, going nowhere to socialise. It is a bit like a big blank space, a shapeless empty time between BTV (‘Before the Virus’) a few weeks ago (aka ‘normality’) and ATV (‘After the Virus’) . . .
Celebrating Good Friday locked down at home
Disciples not only pray for one another, but seek to present the needs of suffering humanity before the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here is a set of intercessions specially for this coronavirus year…
10 April, 2020. Good Friday
The power and the presence and promise of God are now accessible to us in our suffering and in our need…
Presider’s Page for Thursday 9 April (Holy Thursday)
The liturgy that begins this Tursday evening continues until we reach Easter. We are at the start of a three-day celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. We journey from the Last Supper to Gethsemane tonight, from there to Calvary tomorrow, and from the tomb to resurrection and new life at the Vigil of Easter Sunday.
09 April, 2020. Holy Thursday
In St John’s understanding of the Last Supper, when Jesus washed his disciples’ feet it was part of what he meant by “Do this in memory of me.”
Celebrating Holy Thursday in the home
This is not a ‘normal‘ Holy Thursday, but we may have discovered new aspects of our discipleship – and recovered long-forgotten parts of our tradition – through celebrating in this very unusual way.