Each year, as the season of Lent begins, I find myself thinking of an old story told about the desert fathers, those hardy, sun-scorched pilgrims who fled the cities of the ancient world to find God in the silence of Egypt and Syria.
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Archbishop Patrick O’Regan has invited the faithful to take practical steps to ‘encounter the Risen Christ’ during Lent.
We’ve just said farewell to the Year of Jubilee 2025 and we have begun 2026, mostly untouched and unwritten. There is something sacred about this moment, not unlike the afterglow that lingers when the sun has set, that peculiar light that remains even after its source has disappeared below the horizon.
Fr Olek Stirrat was appointed Vocations director for the Adelaide Archdiocese in the latest round of clergy appointments announced by Archbishop Patrick O’Regan.
As Christmas approaches, the familiar story of Mary and Joseph seeking shelter in Bethlehem takes on new meaning for those of us reflecting on how we live today. The innkeeper’s lack of space has long symbolised the world’s rejection of Christ, yet this Christmas season invites us to consider a more hopeful question: Do we have room in the inn of our hearts?
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