TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity
We have just returned home from spending a few days on the Gold Coast, visiting some of our children and grandchildren. The new M1 is a wonderful road, especially after travelling north for so many years during its construction. We are very blest, in Australia, to be able to travel such distances in relative safety.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: See you at the meeting
It is Pentecost Sunday, as I sit to write this week’s message. I am mindful that during the past week we have celebrated National Reconciliation Week and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Today, Sunday 5 June, is World Environment Day.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Make the change
As I write this message, I am aware that we are participating in National Reconciliation Week.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Seeking answers to profound questions
The phone rang as we came in from Mass and Spencer, our five-year-old grandson, said "hello" followed by the question: "If God created the world in seven days, how did the dinosaurs disappear so quickly before God created humans?" How is that for a deep question, evidently, one that he had been pondering all day.
I spent today reading some diocesan responses to the Bishop’s Synod on Synodality. Like our grandson, there are many people seeking answers to profound questions as to how the Spirit is calling us to be Church at this present time.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: On Care For Our Common Home
I am conscious that I write this message at the beginning of Laudato Si’ week (16 – 25 May), marking the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care For Our Common Home.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Vocations Sunday
I am writing this week’s message at the end of Mother’s Day, and I hope you had a lovely family day on Sunday 8 May.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Follow me
As the readers of this message know, my sitting on a Sunday night to scribe, usually provides me with a time of reflection for the week that has passed, and the one to come. As I listened to the Gospel of John (21:1-19) being proclaimed tonight at the Cathedral, I was struck by Jesus calling his disciples ‘children’.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: A womb of new life
It is Monday evening, and Allen and I have just returned from a weekend away in Canberra. It was good to take a break and to spend time with one of our children and his family, connecting with them, and with what is important to them.