TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

June 14, 2022 Teresa Brierley

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 IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: See you at the meeting

June 07, 2022 Teresa Brierley

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 IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Make the change

May 31, 2022 Teresa Brierley

As I write this message, I am aware that we are participating in National Reconciliation Week.

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Seeking answers to profound questions IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Seeking answers to profound questions

May 24, 2022 Teresa Brierley

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 IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: On Care For Our Common Home

May 17, 2022 Teresa Brierley

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 IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Vocations Sunday

May 10, 2022 Teresa Brierley

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 IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Follow me

May 03, 2022 Teresa Brierley

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 IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: A womb of new life

April 26, 2022 Teresa Brierley

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.