HOLY Land Commissary for Australia and Kedron parish administrator Franciscan Father Mario Debattista said 600 years of the Commissariats of the Holy Land was a significant milestone but warned the caretakers were in dire need of donations. Fr Debattista said total donations from Australia to the Holy Land from last year were down below one third of what it was ... Read More »
SINCE churches can’t be adorned with palms branches this Sunday, Steven Bird has a plan to cover the front of his home instead. The father of three is among millions of Catholics who will enter Holy Week, which starts on Palm Sunday, with a heavy heart because of the unforeseen closure of churches nationwide. Palm Sunday, this year celebrated on ... Read More »
DUTCH priest Fr Michel Remery is Tweeting the way to Jerusalem. Fr Remery, known for his book and app Tweeting with God, was at St Paul’s Book Centre in Brisbane last week launching his new book Online with the Saints and en route to the Australian Catholic Youth Festival in Perth. “I think it is important to overcome the image ... Read More »
THIRTY-one pilgrims, including Rockhampton Bishop Michael McCarthy, found themselves humbled and spiritually reawakened walking the roads Jesus walked. Fr Noel Milner, who has worked with parishes from Brisbane to Blackall, led the group with Bishop McCarthy to the Holy Land. “It is always a great spiritual privilege to go on pilgrimage – to walk where Jesus walked, as they say,” ... Read More »
A VISIT to Jerusalem can be an opportunity for pilgrimage, reflection and quiet prayer at holy sites. It is also an extraordinary window into the reality of an ancient city in a conflicted land. It’s easy to lose yourself in the winding, cobblestone alleyways of old Jerusalem amidst the jostle, the lively conversations in Arabic and Hebrew, and with the ... Read More »
SPONSORED BY OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS, HENDRA WE read and hear about Jesus and the Holy Land, and imagine what Israel would look like mainly drawing from Bible stories and illustrations. The Holy Land landscape is nothing like the Australian landscape. Visiting the places where Jesus was born and raised, the important areas of his ministry and finally ... Read More »
POPE Francis condemned the “unacceptable episodes of violence” in Jerusalem, episodes that “do not spare even places of worship”, after an attack in a synagogue left four worshippers, a policeman and the two attackers dead. At the end of his general audience on November 19, the day after the attack on the synagogue, Pope Francis said he was following “with ... Read More »
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