Preparations Continue…
Fr Prior was recently able to visit St Patrick’s Church in Colebrook with one of the candidates to monastic life. The goal of their visit was to make preparations for the ceremony of 22 February. They also visited the large presbytery in the Hobart area (see photo) in which they will spend the first months […]
God’s Answer To Man’s Mess
The feast of Christmas, which each year renews our faith and incites us to deeper love for God and neighbour, is not without raising a few questions. Perhaps the most important of them is: if it is true that God has become a man to save us, then how is it that 2,000 years later […]
Hodie Scietis
Today, you shall know. Today, you shall see. Today, the Lord will come. Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow you will see His glory. These words of consolation and hope echo throughout the liturgy of this day called the Vigil of the Nativity of the Lord, a day of prayer, a day of fasting, a day during […]
Super Missus Est
“Missus est Angelus Gabriel… The Angel Gabriel was sent by God….” It is this Ember Wednesday in Advent which gave us some of the most beautiful elevations of St Bernard in particular on the Gospel of the Annunciation (called homilies “Super Missus est”). So much has been written about that scene which took place in […]
A Date To Save
Please God, on the feast of the Chair of St Peter, Wednesday 22 February at 11 AM, the beautiful Church of St Patrick in Colebrook, Tasmania, will host a Solemn High Mass in the extraordinary form to mark the official opening day of the Benedictine foundation. The Mass will be offered by Fr Prior, while […]
She Will Crush Your Head
Such was the prophecy pronounced immediately after the Fall, and which is fulfilled on this day when the Virgin is conceived without sin. She crushes the head of the serpent at the very moment she begins to be, for she alone of all the children of men, is untainted by the original sin of our […]
First Saturday
From South To North And Back Again
After several days of meetings in Hobart, Fr Prior drove north to visit a few properties there and become acquainted with the Catholic community in and around Launceston. He returned to Hobart the day before yesterday and is presently looking at sites in the Southern Midlands.
Aspiciens A Longe
Such are the first words of the first responsory for Matins on this first Sunday of Advent. Aspiciens a longe: looking from afar. In the context it is the prophet who looks into the distant future and sees the might of God coming to save humanity. The entire Church is thus invited to give thanks […]