TWO friends, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne, have initiated a National Rosary Crusade to pray for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. Michelle Komadina, in Melbourne, and Monica Guy, in Sydney, are inviting Catholics around Australia to pray the Rosary for 54 days, starting on the feast of the Assumption, August 15, and finishing on the feast of ... Read More »
This is Pope John Paul II’s homily from the Mass for the conclusion of the May Marian month homily on May 31, 1979 “And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord” (Lk 1:45). WITH this greeting, the elderly Elizabeth exalts her young kinswoman Mary, who has come, ... Read More »
POPE Francis asked Catholics to make a special effort in May to pray the Rosary, knowing that by doing so they would be united with believers around the world asking for Mary’s intercession in stopping the coronavirus pandemic. “Contemplating the face of Christ with the heart of Mary, our mother, will make us even more united as a spiritual family ... Read More »
EILEEN Hearn answers the phone around 3pm, if it happens to ring, but she doesn’t linger. “We’re saying our prayers,” she said to several callers within a brief time frame on Holy Thursday afternoon. “Can you call back?” The 80-year-old devotee of the Divine Mercy chaplet was light-hearted for the interruption. “Most people know that Ken and I pray at ... Read More »
BRISBANE’S faithful have been invited to join about one million Polish Catholics expected to attend a large rosary prayer session along the country’s border to mark the end of the Fatima centenary, and to pray for the salvation of their country. The “Rosary on the Borders” event on October 7, will be held to coincide with the feast of Our ... Read More »
RALPH Hickey knelt in the kitchen and sent a desperate plea to heaven as the Japanese advanced towards Australia. It was 1942 and Ralph was 12 years old. Japanese forces had bombed Pearl Harbour and an invasion fleet was heading for Papua New Guinea. With American bombers flying overhead and the Allied fleet gathering in the Coral Sea, Ralph and ... Read More »
MARY’S request 100 years ago for three young children from Fatima to pray the Rosary every day has now been taken up by a parish in Brisbane archdiocese. Fr Terence Nueva has introduced the Fatima Covenant in his parish, Our Lady of Fatima in Acacia Ridge, to encourage individuals, families and groups to help pray the Rosary every day in ... Read More »
THE Order of Preachers has a particular devotion to the Blessed Virgin and rejoices in her protection as patroness of the Order. As October is a month traditionally devoted to the Holy Rosary and Our Lady, it seems an appropriate time to reflect upon her significance for us as Dominicans. It would be hard for any objective observer to doubt ... Read More »
OUR Lady’s famous apparition where she warned people “were falling like leaves into hell” should be a wake up call for Australia, a Brisbane religious Brother has said. De La Salle Brother Max Sculley has heeded these words of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a steadfast promoter of Australian Needs Fatima, an apostolate that promotes a Rosary rally on October ... Read More »
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