LITURGY MATTERS: Are you interested in these liturgical opportunities…
The Diocesan Liturgy Council is once again seeking to widen its wisdom pool. You might be just the person we are seeking?
LITURGY MATTERS: Eucharist
We the Church of Maitland-Newcastle have just celebrated the second session of our Synod. On Sunday we celebrated the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. We are in the midst of the Confirmation and First Communion season (seven this week). I have just returned from the funeral of Fr Paul O’Neill.
LITURGY MATTERS: Ministry developments – liturgical and otherwise
One of the dominant themes at Session 2 of our diocesan synod last Saturday was and remains the participation of the lay faithful in the life and mission of the Church.
There is the mission that God entrusts to us all and for which we are all responsible, and there are formal ministries to which a few are called. Getting the right balance between mission and ministry is important.
LITURGY MATTERS: Christian Initiation celebrates a love story
After Mass on Saturday night a young woman I used to work with came bounding down the aisle to say hello. We‘re often at the same Mass but there has not been such bounding before. What prompted the bounding?
LITURGY MATTERS: It takes the whole community to initiate children!
There was a time we now call ‘pre-COVID’. If we think back to this time, is there anyone among you who would claim that the way we were doing Sacraments of Initiation for Children was working? The key word is ‘working’. What do we mean by ‘working’?
LITURGY MATTERS: Mysta what?
While society thinks Easter is over, we Christians know that it has only just begun. We have a church given mandate to celebrate (party) for 50 days, right up to Pentecost Sunday. So, what are you and your faith community doing to maintain the celebration?!
From Chrism Mass to Easter Sunday: Good things being fulfilled even as we watch and listen
It began with the much-awaited 2021 Chrism Mass celebrated on 30 March in the Sacred Heart Cathedral, and came to fulfillment in the Easter Ceremonies. It was a journey that reminded us of Christ’s enduring and life-giving presence among God’s people – healing, baptising, anointing.