Action at Parliament against poverty and inequality
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral was closed on Thursday 12 July and will remain closed until further notice. A peer reviewed seismic assessment has advised that the Category I heritage listed building is ‘’earthquake prone’’, as at roof level the ceiling diaphragms are insufficient to carry loads under the current building codes. The Cathedral currently presents a risk to occupants in an earthquake.
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WelCom May 2019: Over 250 people were killed and around 500 others were injured in six coordinated attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, 21 April. Among the targets in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa were two Catholic churches – St Anthony’s Shrine in the capital and St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, north
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WelCom May 2019: Pope Francis has urged young people to embrace their role as the present and the future of the Catholic Church by building relationships with their community and with God. His latest apostolic exhortation was signed on 25 March and released 2 April 2019, following last year’s Synod of Bishops on Young People, the
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WelCom May 2019: The month of May is a special time to honour our Blessed Mother Mary. Marian devotions may include singing Marian hymns, readings, homilies, and reciting the rosary. In his 1951 encyclical Ingruentium malorum Pope Pius XI wrote: The custom of the family recitation of the Holy Rosary is a most efficacious means. What
Read more »We listen to one another and are listened to in many different ways every day. But there is a kind of listening and being listened to which is life-changing. In Christus Vivit, Pope Francis writes about the sensitivity required to truly listen to another person.
“When we listen to others in this way, at a certain moment we ourselves have to disappear in order to let the other person follow the path he or she has discovered…we need to encourage and accompany processes, without imposing our own roadmaps. For those processes have to do with persons who remain always unique and free. If you are to accompany others on this path, you must be the first to follow it, day in and day out. That is what Mary did, in her own youth, as she confronted her own questions and difficulties.”
It is not just the young who need this type of listening. Each stage of life has its challenges and need for good listeners. Mary must have been the very best of listeners, both in her youth and as the mother of Jesus. In this month of May perhaps she can help us to be the listeners others need and to encounter the people we need to listen to us.
Kia tau te rangimarie ki a koutou A few weeks ago at a parish meeting I reminded all gathered that Pope Saint John Paul II had told us that “First of all, I have no hesitation in saying that all pastoral initiatives must be set in relation to holiness.” (Novo Millennio Ineunte 30) A few
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