- 1. Christ in you - Logo
- (Pastoral Plan)
- ... people after it is lit from the newly blessed Easter Fire. Christ’s Light is himself as the Truth and the Life (John 8:12; 14:6). It is Christ as the Resurrected Lord who conquers sin and death through ...
- Created on 14 January 2023
- 2. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... Sorrows, and today’s Gospel Reading (Jn 19:25-27) is the telling of perhaps the most sorrowful and poignant moments of Mary’s life; the death of her son (Jesus) on the Cross. Standing by the cross of ...
- Created on 16 September 2021
- 3. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... Jesus, who gave himself as ransom for all. The all-powerful, ever-living God, offers to all the possibility of redemption in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. It is ...
- Created on 12 September 2021
- 4. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... I remember Phillip Adams commenting that he found the thought of his daughters or wife dying unbearable to him, because as an atheist their death meant the annihilation of their being. They wouldn’t ...
- Created on 29 August 2021
- 5. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... pastoral or personal in style and language. It is written at a time only 15-16 yrs after the death and resurrection of Jesus, when there still would have been members of Christian communities alive who ...
- Created on 23 August 2021
- 6. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of 19th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... as the Order of Poor Ladies. After her death, and in her honour, in 1263 Pope Urban IV changed the Order’s name to the Order of St Clare. St Clare leaves us this beautiful prayer: Place your mind before ...
- Created on 09 August 2021
- 7. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... thousand’ is preceded by the death of St John the Baptist. Matthew and Mark locate the feeding in a ‘deserted place’, while Luke locates his account in a private place near the city of Bethseda. The timing ...
- Created on 31 July 2021
- 8. Prayers to Our Lady
- (Year of Mercy)
- ... our death. Amen. Rosary The fundamental prayers listed above are also part of the Catholic rosary, a devotion dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of God. (CCC 971) The rosary consists of twenty ...
- Created on 19 December 2015
- 9. Lumen Christi Archives
- (In the Parish)
- ... Years of the Mt Kembla Mining Disaster, 31 July 1902 [Download] Anzac Day 2022 To those who went away [Download] 70 years of the Diocese [Download] The Centenary of the Death of Fr John Dunne Part ...
- Created on 28 October 2015
- 10. St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong
- (Churches)
- ... the Cathedral of Saint Francis Xavier on 16th March, 2010, on the death anniversary of Archbishop John Bede Polding, one hundred and sixty-two years after the church was begun. Over the years the Wollongong ...
- Created on 24 September 2015
- 11. "Life is changed ... not ended" - Catholic Funeral
- (Sacraments)
- The Christian life is the journey “from the womb to the tomb”. Just as we celebrate the beginning of a life at birth, so must we also bid farewell to a life at death. Our Baptism opens up for us the journey ...
- Created on 17 September 2015
- 12. The 120th Anniversary of the Death of Monsignor John Rigney
- Created on 04 May 2023