TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: To be people of unity and peace IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: To be people of unity and peace

November 29, 2022 Teresa Brierley

As the jacaranda flowers begin to drop, and the agapanthus and hydrangea dot our landscape with the colour of Advent, we journey towards Christmas.

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Reflection on “Document for the Continental Stage” IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Reflection on “Document for the Continental Stage”

November 22, 2022 Teresa Brierley

This week I had been contemplating what I might share with you, when I came across this Prayer for our Community, in an email from Churches Together SA (South Australia). I wanted to share this with you because, continuing to be confronted by so much, we can feel paralysed, and prayer invites us into a different space of solidarity.

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Synod of Bishops on Synodality IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Synod of Bishops on Synodality

November 15, 2022 Teresa Brierley

The Document for the Continental Stage is a working document that seeks to bring out the voices of the People of God, with their insights, their questions, their disagreements.

BRENDON MANNYX: Prison Sunday IMAGE Opinion & Comment

BRENDON MANNYX: Prison Sunday

November 08, 2022 Brendon Mannyx

This week’s message comes to you from Brendon Mannyx, Manager Mission and Outreach.

Last Sunday, 6th November, was Prison Sunday. During the Year of Mercy in 2016, Pope Francis announced a Jubilee for Prisoners, and since that time the Bishops Commission for Social Justice, Mission and Service has continued to encourage dioceses and parishes to mark the first Sunday in November in recognition of those in prison and those who provide pastoral support to them.

Our Diocese currently supports two full-time prison chaplains and, through them, hundreds of incarcerated people and their families every year.

From 2013 – 2016, I was privileged to serve as a sessional chaplain, attending prison one day a week. In 2015, I shared the following reflection with my parish community.

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Peace and Non-violence IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Peace and Non-violence

November 01, 2022 Teresa Brierley

Once again, I come to the end and beginning of a week, realising that it is November and that this message will go out on Tuesday 1 November, All Saints Day which will be followed by the Feast of All Souls.

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Being Mission IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Being Mission

October 25, 2022 Teresa Brierley

​Each year, the month of October is known as World Mission Month and Sunday 23 October, is World Mission Day.

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Gathering, listening, and sharing IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Gathering, listening, and sharing

October 18, 2022 Teresa Brierley

I am writing this week’s message after returning home once again, from our family on the Gold Coast. This time we went for the weekend to assist with the celebration of the 40th birthday of one of our sons-in-law.

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: The Importance of Faith in our Lives IMAGE Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: The Importance of Faith in our Lives

October 11, 2022 Teresa Brierley

The image I share with you this week is our diocesan World Youth Day image, The Visitation, by Sr Therese Quinn RSJ.