Dear Parishioners, Today is the first day of Advent, the four week period of preparation for Christmas. Advent is sometimes called “the little Lent”, because like the Lenten period, we [...]
Dear Parishioners, Today’s First Reading (2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14) with its story of heroic martyrdom presents us with an affirmation of life after death, that is the resurrection of the [...]
Dear Parishioners, Brendan Byrne, SJ, the noted Australian Scripture scholar writes: “It is generally agreed that Mark’s Gospel was the first to be written. Read more …