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Michael O'Connor is a member of the Aurora Editorial Team.
Throughout eternity God lives a life of love – three Persons loving and being loved perfectly.
God chose to share the life of love with creatures who would be gifted with God’s attributes of intelligence and free will, the essentials for loving.
Recently I gazed, with combined feelings of pity and annoyance, at a contemporary photo of a large group of priests.
In the season of Easter, this is an apt question.
Mercy has travelled the roads of our diocese during this ‘Year of Mercy’. Mercy has “pitched its tent” at churches without a resident priest, to be present and available to the local people. Many have welcomed mercy into their lives.
“You look like a pig!”
The story goes that a young, strapping soldier blurted this out when he was passing through a village and saw Buddha sitting under a tree.
‘Lucie’. That’s the name embossed on the smart uniform she wears to work at St Nicholas Early Education, Newcastle West.