Mary’s Song

23 December 2018 The first two chapters of Luke, in a different way to Matthew, give us a full account of the background of the birth and childhood of Jesus.  And along with Matthew, it is often the backdrop of our familiar Christmas pageants with kids wearing tea towels acting Read more

By Martin Reilly, ago

Repentance and Joy

16 December 2018 Today is a rather confusing day in the season of Advent. We have been going along lighting purple candles remembering that this is a time of preparing and waiting for God to come into our world – a time of penitence – which up until the Second Read more

By Belinda Groves, ago

Seeing Peace through God’s Lenses

9 December 2018 Steve Killelea the Australian IT entrepreneur and founder of the global Institute for Economics and Peace has said, “Sanskrit has 108 words for love. Islam has 99 names for God. Japanese has 14 words for beauty. We’ve got one word for Peace…. We don’t have enough words Read more

By Belinda Groves, ago