Reflections & Homilies

Mercy Melbourne An occasion of prayer and reconciliation coming up.. Stay tuned for more.

Two opportunities coming up to discern the ‘Voice’ by the same speaker.  one is the Part Two of the three-part webinar series will feature Fr. Frank Brennan, who will consider the relationship between the Church and Indigenous Australians, and the application of Catholic Social Teaching…

Mother’s Day Blessing Prayer: On this Mother’s Day, we pray for blessings on all women who have loved and nurtured us throughout our lives. We give thanks for the mothers who have guided and protected us, who have taught and encouraged us. We give thanks for mothers who…

Everything we know about the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus comes from Scripture and that has seemed too little for those who made up legends about him. We know he was a carpenter, a working man, for the skeptical Nazarenes ask…

St. Patrick, (flourished in 5th century, Britain and Ireland; feast day March 17), patron saint and national apostle of Ireland, credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland and probably responsible in part for the Christianization of the Picts and Anglo-Saxons. He is known only from two…

Please find here a letter Archbishop Peter have signed with other faith leaders regarding an Inquiry being conducted by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC). The ALRC’s Consultation Paper, published here, makes a number of suggestions which would be catastrophic for faith-based schools, including Catholic…