Summer 2019-20 - Come to the Table

Prayer rite for Shrove Tuesday, including readings, reflection and prayers of petition.

The Society of Jesus in Victoria, Jesuit Communications Christmas Raffle 2019 was drawn on Thursday, 5 December 2019 (Permit No 10590/19)

Hymn and reading suggestions, reflection and prayers for Advent, which begins on 1 December.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s guidelines for eating and drinking.

Our view of our common home and our relationship to God are closely linked.

Sr Patricia Powell RSM from Rahamim Ecology Centre, an environmental education, spirituality and advocacy ministry of the Sisters of Mercy, spoke at the Australasian Catholic Press Association Conference on how reconciliation with creation goes hand in hand with other forms of reconciliation.

The unspoken contract between host and invitee places obligations on both, and where those obligations meet is thanksgiving.

To sit around the kitchen or dining room table and share a meal, is to share yourself – to open up to companionship.

One parishioner’s artistic dedication has resulted in a country Queensland church and garden becoming a tourist attraction.