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 »
MAX Lennox is proud of his impressive collection of great religious art works – including The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, and The Elevation of the Cross by Peter Paul Rubens. “While some of the greatest artists applied their talents to canvas, I have those wonderful canvases reproduced on stamps,” he said. Mr Lennox has amassed tens of thousands ... Read More »
By Emilie Ng SLIPPING out of a driveway in Sydney, Paul Swan and his mother Joan make a reverent plea to the Virgin Mary. The pair is headed to visit John Swan, Joan’s husband and Paul’s father, who has been battling Parkinson’s disease for almost 13 years. With the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a special saintly relative ... Read More »
STANDING before a replica of the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes from France, Pope Francis told Vatican employees and other guests that Mary is a mother who never makes her children wait for a response to their prayers. “She is the virgin of readiness, Our Lady of Haste,” the Pope said on May 31 at the end of a ... Read More »
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