FAITH MATTERS: Nourishment in a Pandemic
In this week's Faith Matters, Rev. Christine Sheppard OAM reflects on how maintaining her faith journey nourishes her during lockdown, especially when access to Eucharist is limited.
FAITH MATTERS: A Dance Changed My Life
I was born into an Irish family along with my four siblings. We grew up in Waratah and attended the local catholic school. Ours was a typical catholic family of the era with regular attendance at Sunday mass - a habit I dropped in my teenage years.
That all changed the night I went to a dance in Newcastle when I was 18.
FAITH MATTERS: The Chosen
‘He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God’- John 1:10-13.
FAITH MATTERS: What is Catholic Intellectual Tradition?
Having recently started studying through the Australian Catholic University I have had the opportunity to contemplate their mission statement:
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How often do you feel that you are doing what needs to be done, just to get through the day so you can go to bed and get up and repeat the process the following day? It can be very easy to forget the why, when you are so busy ticking off the ‘what.’
FAITH MATTERS: Living in a Christian Street Community
John and I helped create a lay Christian street community in Kotara back in the ’70s and '80s when the fire of idealism and love of our God ran hot in our veins.
FAITH MATTERS: Ecological Conversion - So Simple but So Hard!
Pope Francis said on Earth Day, “When this destruction of nature is triggered, it is very difficult to stop it. But we are still in time. And we will be more resilient if we work together instead of doing it alone.”