Tag: Highlights
Prayer as a New Year’s resolution
If we are to make any firm resolutions this new year, let us begin with one. To pray. As Catholics, prayer must be our way of life.
Q&A with Fr Flader: Would God have become incarnate if Adam...
Fr Flader answers a question on whether or not God wold have become incarnate if Adam and Eve had not sinned.
First Saturday devotion of the year
Just days into the New Year, hundreds of men from across Sydney took to their knees to pray for their families and communities in the First Saturday devotion of the year.
From Grand Slams to a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary
Sr M Olivia, once a promising junior tennis star, left her professional career at 22, choosing a different path God was calling her to.
Pope at Christmas: Jesus’ birth brings hope for world of justice,...
Celebrating Christmas Mass after opening the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis said the birth of Jesus fills Christians with hope and the courage to work for peace and justice.
Caringbah nativity scene
Every day until the end of January Sydney Catholics have an opportunity to experience a magnificent nativity at Our Lady of Fatima church in Caringbah.
The birth of the Lord Jesus is the birth of peace
2024 Christmas Message of Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay, Maronite Bishop of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.
SmartLoving: The 12 ways of Christmas
Christmas is more than a day, albeit an important one—it’s the beginning of a season that lasts 12 whole days, hence the popular Christmas carol. Here are twelve ways, over twelve days, to celebrate Christ’s birth.
Jesus is the path and destination for Jubilee pilgrims, pope says
Pope Francis called on Catholics to focus their Holy Year 2025 pilgrimages on Jesus Christ, who is both the path and destination for Christian hope.
A celebration of tradition
Coming from a Lebanese background, our Christmas table is filled with our traditional food. Around 20 years ago I decided to introduce glazed ham, writes Jocelyne Mansour.
Q&A with Fr Flader: Healing the family tree
I have friends in the charismatic movement who speak of healing the family tree, when there has been serious sin in a previous generation which has supposedly affected a descendant. I can’t understand the logic of this practice. Is there any basis for it?
Movie review: How to make gravy without the baby Jesus
Australian Christmas movies are something of a rarity, as are Australian movies based on songs. The recently released How to Make Gravy movie, which is available to stream now, is both of these things. It is based on Paul Kelly’s 1996 Christmas classic of the same name.