THOUSANDS of Brisbane Catholics are lining up in churches today to start their Lenten journey with a COVID-safe sprinkling of ash as the liturgy adapts to the ongoing pandemic. The new practice brought in to maintain social distancing has been the custom in many countries like Italy for hundreds of years. It became another change in a long list of ... Read More »
ON Ash Wednesday, we began our journey into a season of grace when we are marked with ashes indicating that we are ready and willing to celebrate the season of Lent. It is a time when our Lord offers us the discipline of prayer and to become involved in Lenten programs. It is also a time when we commit ourselves ... Read More »
A BRISBANE parish has found a new way to bring Church to the streets with an innovative Ash Wednesday encounter. “We can hide and just be happy with what we do at church, or we can witness and go out and be what Jesus wants us to be,” parish priest at Our Lady of the Southern Cross Church in Springfield ... Read More »
A YOUNG woman who suffered from anorexia as a teenager and a man who found healing from his abusive past have shared their stories for Brisbane archdiocese’s annual Lenten program. Katelyn Ross and John Evans are among the six Catholics from Brisbane who share openly about their experiences of blessings and brokenness for the 2018 program. The stories are told ... Read More »
CATHOLICS across Brisbane archdiocese are being called to join in three days of fasting and reparation at the start of Lent for the victims of child sexual abuse. “Through fasting, we stand in solidarity with the victims of abuse whose much deeper hunger is for healing and peace in their lives,” Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge said, coinciding with a joint ... Read More »
LENT is a journey of purification and penance, a movement that should bring one tearfully back to the loving arms of the merciful Father, Pope Francis said at an Ash Wednesday Mass that began with a procession on Rome’s Aventine Hill. After walking from the Benedictine monastery of St Anselm to the Dominican-run Basilica of Santa Sabina yesterday (February 18), ... Read More »
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