Pentecost (Year A)
Wind. Fire. Dove. These are the primary “signs” or “symbols” associated with the person of the Holy Spirit. Wind and fire, from the Pentecost event described in our first reading today, and the dove, found in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ Baptism in the Jordan River (Matt 3:16-17; Mk 1:9-11; Lk 3:21-22)
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The Ascension of the Lord (Year A)
When I was serving as a Deacon at St Theresa’s parish in Toowoomba, I fell in with a young family from Sweden who were spending a couple of years in Australia.
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Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year A)
“I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever, that Spirit of truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees him nor knows him…” (Jn 14:16-17).
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Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A (Family Mass)
“Anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but gets in some other way is a thief and a brigand.” Boys and girls, in Jesus’ day, people had very small flocks of sheep, and they didn’t have big farms with fenced off paddocks like we have here in Australia.
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Translated by Fr Thomas Duncan
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Fr Thomas Duncan is currently serving as parish priest of Roma, Queensland, and Dean of the Western Deanery in the Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba.
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