What we place into the hands of the poor, we place into the hands of Christ!

Just a few thoughts

• Will you look back on life and say, ‘I wish I had,’ or ‘I’m glad I did’? -- Zig Ziglar

• Breast Cancer Awareness Day – may it encourage those who research this disease, and may all who live with it or are in remission, receive respectful care.

• We pray for foster parents, that their willingness to welcome others’ children into their homes and hearts will encourage many to follow their example.

Reflections

• We are unique in this.

• Live faith in freedom and love

• Authentic discipleship by faith in action -- reflection for Last Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Congregations to mark Day of Sorrow and Promise with prayer

• Serving through conserving

Musical Reflection

• O God, You search Me and You Know Me

Searching for wisdom

Just a few thoughts

• I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. -- Robert Redford

• May all the spiritual children of Abraham – Jews, Christians and Muslims – be true to their heritage and worship the one true God, respecting every person as brother and sister.

• We pray for those who farm the land or the oceans to produce the world’s food, that their work will be both fruitful and sustainable.

Reflections

• The “sign of Jonah”

• A  sumptuous feed -reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Top End meeting marks 40 years since St John Paul II’s historic visit

• Navi Pillay’s Nobel is a vote of confidence in international law

Musical Reflection

• O God Beyond all praising

The persistence of God

Just a few thoughts

• The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. -- Bryan Stevenson

• May each one of us help to reshape the Church in the spirit of Jesus so that no one feels excluded or rejected, but rather be welcomed as sisters and brothers, equal in dignity through the grace of baptism.

Reflections

• Two Minute Homily

• Are our hearts ready?

• Frank Brennan’s Homily -reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• South Australia’s green gold rush gathers pace

Musical Reflection

• Shine Jesus Shine

Hear the word of God and keep it

Just a few thoughts

• It doesn’t matter who you used to be, what matters is who you’ve become. -- Robert Tew

• Mental Health Day -help us to overcome any temptation to discriminate against and ridicule people who struggle with this condition in its complex forms.

Reflections

• One in Christ

• Guide me, Lord

• The Wedding Banquet -reflection for Next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Australia’s climate policy – a crime against humanity

• Healing community

• Snippet –Nobel Peace Prize - Navi Pillay has been "a steadfast, independent voice of justice”

Musical Reflection

• Lead Me Lord

Newman

Just a few thoughts

• You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you. -- Josh Shipp

• May we be able to live by faith and not by law, and so find true freedom to live for God and our neighbour.

• We pray for the Australian community, that everyone will come together in a solidarity of gratitude, not grievance, in response to the nation’s challenges.

Reflections

• The virtue of vigilance

• The Cross of Self-Sufficiency

• The Divine Wedding -reflection for Next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Australia's fight against inflation has a moral blind spot

• Using interest rates to fight inflation is dumb, unfair and overdue for a rethink

• Snippet --Aged Care - more people are approved for a Support at Home package than the system is funded to deliver. The backlog is growing. More than 106,000 are on the waiting list.

Musical Reflection

• Shepherd Me, O God

The Father hears us and will give what is ultimately good

Just a few thoughts

• You can’t make everyone happy. You are not a pizza. -- Anon

• World Sight Day – May those who are blind or have diminished sight, will know the presence of God guiding them, and make their own unique contribution to a world of peace.

• We pray for the members of St Vincent de Paul conferences and parish outreach teams, that their work in God’s vineyard will bear much good fruit.

Reflections

• Does God answer my prayer?

• Ask anyway!

• Hypocrisy is practically the only thing Jesus railed against in the gospels -reflection for Last Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Immersion to Country with Catholic Mission

• “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favour of the death penalty’, is not really pro-life” – Pope Leo XIV.

• Pope Leo’s early moves suggest a robust approach to synod reform

Musical Reflection

• You Satisfy the Hungry Heart

 

Our time is precious

Just a few thoughts

• We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the centre of the universe. -- Elie Wiesel

• May the kingdom of God extend over the whole world so that all people can live together in peace and harmony, with justice and mercy, free from religious persecution.

Reflections

• He is everywhere

• I am with you always!

• We are not owners but stewards -reflection for this Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Environment in the spotlight during feast of Creation

• CSSA cautions against humanitarian intake reduction

Musical Reflection

• Bread Of Life, Hope Of The World

Silence can be the presence of Someone

Just a few thoughts

• If I had to prescribe two things to improve health and happiness in the world, it’s movement and play. -- ~ Jason Nemer

• May this Active Aging Week bear much fruit in a healthier life style, and reward those who assist them.

• May we carry out our daily duties in a spirit of service and hospitality, attentive to the word of Jesus through which we discover the will of God.

Reflections

• Priorities

• Opportunities to serve and listen together

The Signs Of The Times

• AI may not be becoming superintelligent. It may be becoming distorted

Musical Reflection

• Table of Plenty

Allowing compassion to interrupt our plans

Just a few thoughts

• A great relationship is not only finding the person you have fun with but also finding the person you want to be bored with. The beauty of long-term relationships is often hidden in boring, ordinary moments. -- James Clear

• May we, on this World Teachers’ Day, rejoice in the vocation of men and women who serve in schools, universities, and other education facilities, that by respecting their students they will also inspire them.

• We pray for all users of social media, young and old, that they will not allow their minds to be filled with hateful things but with all that is good.

Reflections

• Who should I be neighbour to?

• Many heads are better than one.

• What is the kingdom? – reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• The Original Sin

Musical Reflection

• Come To The Feast

What fruit are we bearing for Him

Just a few thoughts

• If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. -- Theodore Roosevelt

• May today’s 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi unite all Christians in living lives of simplicity, having a deep respect for the poor, being intent on the care of our planet, all placed on the foundation of prayer and love for Jesus.

Reflections

• Two Minutes Homily

• Frank Brennan’s Homily – reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• The Conspiracy of Accidents Through Which God Speaks

Musical Reflection

• Prayer of St. Francis

Douaumont

Just a few thoughts

• One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening. -- Franklin P. Jones

• May governments take seriously the issue of global warming, and here in Australia make bold decisions for the long term future of our planet and country.

Reflections

• The ways of God will always be beyond our human comprehension.

• A  healing and hope-giving word

• Our brains love stories – reflection for Next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Prayer is not complete without social justice

• Australia had abolished slavery. So how did we justify 'blackbirding'?

Musical Reflection

• Lord of All Hopefulness

Guardian Angels

Just a few thoughts

• Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person’s day. -- Mariska Hargitay

• International Day of Non-Violence - may it cause all people to pause and reflect upon their own behaviour, words, and thoughts, so that avoiding violence we all may be peacemakers in our relationships.

Reflections

• God's thoughts

• God accompanies us in very many ways

• God at the Centre – reflection for Next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• When stories of suffering become stories of blame, compassion gets lost

• Standing in Solidarity

Musical Reflection

• To You, O God, I Lift Up My Soul

Loving God faithfully in the smallest things.

Just a few thoughts

• Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. -- Mary Tyler Moore

• We mark this International Day for Older Persons that they will always receive respect, their wisdom be honoured, and that the care offered to them will be dignified, just and kindly.

Reflections

• The witness of young people

• True Childhood

• The Vineyard of the Lord – reflection for Next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Grow peace

• Inflation and interest rates up. Who's to blame?

Musical Reflection

• Healer of Our Every Ill

Jerome and the Bible

Just a few thoughts

• You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. -- Carol Burnett

• We pray for all who suffer from heart diseases and for the medical teams who care for them on this World Heart Day.

Reflections

• Giving up your agenda

• Our Agenda

• The Labourers In The Vineyard – reflection for Last Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Driving down inflation

• Australia and the rules-based order

Musical Reflection

• What Is This Place

An Israelite in whom there is no deceit!

Just a few thoughts

• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. -- Doug Larson

• May the Holy Archangels and Angels watch over all the people of the Middle East so that they can move out of the darkness of war and enter into the light of God’s peace and justice.

Reflections

• Archangels

• Constant need for vigilance

• Hone our hearts to discern God's will – reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• National Migrant Jubilee Cross

• Alarm over AI is not ‘fake news’

Musical Reflection

• The Kingdom of God is Justice and Joy

How am I treating the people around me?

Just a few thoughts

• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. -- Denis Waitley

• May we have a spirit of detachment from our possessions, abilities and comforts, so that when these are taken from us we can still bless the name of the Lord as did Job long ago.

• We pray for parents, that they will have the wisdom they need to enable their children to use social media safely and fruitfully.

Reflections

• The ego

• Spiritual greatness

• God’s radical love reaches the forgotten and discarded – reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Don Dunstan’s cookbook and the lost ambition of social democracy

• Public support for intervention on social media, AI: Gillard

Musical Reflection

• I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

Second thoughts, changed minds and new beginnings

Just a few thoughts

• You can’t move mountains by whispering at them. – Pink

• May refugees and migrants, who have bought to our land and to our Church, a rich diversity of culture and faith, of resilience and hope, be welcomed as sisters and brothers, as together we shape this country into a place of harmony where racism has no place.

• We pray for the whole human family, that a groundswell of conversion will inspire all people to serve the cause of unity in our fractured world.

Reflections

• Two Minute Homily

• Second thoughts

• Frank Brennan’s Homily – reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Prophecy—Challenge and Comfort

Musical Reflection

• In Christ There Is No East Or West

Healers

Just a few thoughts

• I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time. -- Herbert Bayard Swope

• May this International Day for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons be taken seriously by the leaders of all nations, especially those who possess them or desire them.

Reflections

• God is present in every season

• Motivation – reflection for next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• World Day of Migrants and Refugees

• Settlement outcomes of permanent migrants are much better than media tells us

Musical Reflection

• When I Needed A Neighbour

The anointed one

Just a few thoughts

• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. -- Henry Van Dyke

• May Pope Leo’s visit to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Headquarters, UNESCO, advance cooperation in all these fields so as to advance the enrichment of all peoples

• We pray for couples preparing for marriage, that they will reflect deeply on the commitment they are making and lay a sound foundation for a lifetime of mutual love

Reflections

• A Time to Speak

• God meets us where we are now

• Beyond Words – reflection for next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Every migrant and refugee child deserves the chance to thrive

• Young Australians aren’t alone. So why are they lonely?

Musical Reflection

• Bread of life, hope of the world

Processions form a central part of devotion

Just a few thoughts

• I’d rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret. -- James Van Praagh

• May the crews of ships trapped in the Gulf of Hormuz and the Red Sea because of the wars affecting the Middle East, be protected from harm, receive the food and medical care they need and be sustained in their mental health.

• We pray for housing industry and government policy-makers, that they will work together to find the best way of addressing the housing crisis

Reflections

• In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge

• The Glory of God in Us

• More Deeply Alive – reflection for next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• St John Paul II’s Alice Springs speech resonates 40 years on

• Pope calls for protection and support of young migrants

Musical Reflection

• In Every Age

The Weaver

Just a few thoughts

• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. -- Charles Dickens

• May we be granted the grace to be protected from falsehood and lies.

• We pray for the executives of social media and artificial intelligence enterprises, that they will ensure their operations do not exploit the vulnerable, sow division or inflame grievance

Reflections

• Take nothing for your journey

• Padre Pio

• The Weaver Poem – reflection

The Signs Of The Times

• Migrant Cross pilgrimage arrives in Adelaide this month

• Australia keeps consulting Indigenous people. When do they get to decide?

Musical Reflection

• Christ Be Our Light

A family bound together by faith and love.

Just a few thoughts

• Nurture your sense of self, who you are in your own eyes, not as seen through the eyes of others. -- Julia Gillard

• May good people hear the cry of the poor and gladly and generously come to their aid.

• We pray for the human family, that the growing gap between the ultra-wealthy few and the many poor will be bridged by a peaceful global revolution of justice.

Reflections

• Families

• Living the message of the Gospels

• People over profits – reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Conference highlights role of migrant communities in a synodal Church

• An Irritated Melancholy

Musical Reflection

• Come Back To Me

anyone who is willing to respond.

Just a few thoughts

• One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. -- Michael J. Fox

• May the Gospel of Jesus Christ be proclaimed by the Church as the source of new life, and never be used as a means to oppress or intimidate people.

• We pray for the people of every land sorely afflicted by war, that this week’s UN observances for peace (21 September) and the elimination of nuclear weapons (26 September) will renew their hope for an end to violence.

Reflections

• St Matthew

• God’s graces need to be shared

• Embracing God’s unconventional way – reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• CSSA joins call to raise minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 years

• WA builds more prison beds as Closing the Gap goes backwards

Musical Reflection

• Seek the Lord

Generosity

Just a few thoughts

• I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life. -- George Burns

• May we, who receive everything from God, show generosity to others, especially to the poor, the lonely and the apprehensive.

• We pray for all employers, that they ensure their workers are paid justly and are provided with safe and healthy working conditions.

Reflections

• Two Minute Homily

• God's justice IS his mercy.

• Frank Brennan Homily – reflection for This Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Have ethics and morality become dispensable?

Musical Reflection

• You Are My Dwelling Place

 

Faith is fragile, easily threatened by what surrounds it.

Just a few thoughts

• I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. -- Woodrow Wilson

• May more efforts be made by the free nations of the world to secure a good and safe future for the refugees languishing in camps in many places because of war and natural disasters.

Reflections

• Making our hearts fertile soil

• Trust in God can bear fruit

• Just Imagine – reflection for Next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Take this cup of water

• Australia needs migration with dignity

Musical Reflection

• Bread of Life and Cup of Hope

All are one in Christ

Just a few thoughts

• Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow. – Anon

• May real efforts be made to correct imbalance in the workplace because of gender, age and discrimination, as we observed International Equal Pay Day.

Reflections

• Many women followers

• A  place of transformation

• The Power of Powerlessness – reflection for Next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Challenges facing Church in Australia

• Slowing AI is not enough. Governments need to govern

Musical Reflection

• How can I keep from singing

The whole of creation speaks of God.

Just a few thoughts

• A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned. -- Naval Ravikant

• We pray for all who are sick in hospital, in aged care facilities and at home, that they will receive the best of care and kindness as we mark World Patient Safety Day.

• We pray for autocrats moved to war by hate, ambition, greed or revenge. May they admit their wrongdoing and be converted to the way of peace.

Reflections

• Hildegard

• Your faith has saved you

• Children Before God – reflection for Next Sunday

The Signs Of The Times

• Don’t allow AI to replace human relationships

• The Glory of God in Us

Musical Reflection

• Centre of my life