February 22, 2016
“It’s appropriate that Fr Richard should begin his mission on wheels here at St Joseph’s, East Maitland, because it’s where Fr John Therry began his mission back in the 1830s.”
February 19, 2016
Bishop Bill presided at the Liturgy of the Word marking the Rite of Election on Sunday 14 February at Sacred Heart Cathedral.
February 09, 2016
The name ‘Shrove Tuesday’ comes from the old English word for going to confession – we are ‘scraped’ or ‘shriven’ of our sins. It is the same word that gives us ‘scribe’ and ‘inscription’, and the German schreib, meaning ‘write’. When we are released from our sins, it is as though we are being scraped clean!
February 09, 2016
Perhaps because the term ‘Project Compassion’ is so familiar, it’s easy to see it as a unit and not realise what an effective name it is for an appeal that asks us to take on compassion as a project. Hence my header!
February 09, 2016
The ‘flavour’ of 150 years is evident as the community celebrates in diverse ways the anniversary of the arrival of the first resident bishop of Maitland, James Murray, who claimed St John’s Church as his cathedral.
February 01, 2016
The February edition of Aurora is about to hit the newsstands.
