Our Diocese is thrilled to be joining in the annual Brisbane Open House festival this weekend, welcoming Brisbane locals and visitors into some of our stunning historic churches
Bishop John Roundhill shares the joys and benefits of his Holy Week Walk ‘n’ Talk pilgrimage from Brisbane to Burleigh: “The stripping away of other things can leave you time with God. It is a fitting way to spend Holy Week.”
“God loved all the world so much that we were given God’s son, who saved all of us and then gave us his Spirit. The Spirit of Christ is with us – he gave us his Spirit at Pentecost. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, people will see your face, hear you talk and witness how you act and know the word of God through you,” says The Rev’d Hanna Dally, the Director of the Holy Family Episcopal Church in Reineh, Galilee
“The world knows John Vianney as the ‘Curé d’Ars’. He lived his entire life in a small corner of France and he never saw the sea or visited Paris. But his life was exemplary, and thousands of people visited Ars to see the holy man, to make confession of sin and to seek his counsel,” says The Ven. Keith Dean-Jones OGS, as St John Vianney is marked in our Lectionary on 4 August
Meet Aunty Dr Rose Elu and find out why a US President gave her a bear hug, what class action she is involved in, what day she would like to re-live, why she is going to Azerbaijan in November, her thoughts on Reconciliation, her earliest child memory and her secret skill
Four people from the Anglican Church Southern Queensland received Queen’s Birthday Honours recently, while a major property redevelopment with Holy Trinity, Fortitude Valley picked up a major architectural gong
“I am getting more positive feedback about church now than in all of my 20 years of ministry put together. People love the fact that they can say the familiar words, see their friends and sing their hearts out. It’s a bit of normality in the midst of the strange new world we now inhabit,” says The Rev’d Dr Cathy Laufer
Meet Patrick King and find out what Advent means to him, why he is glad that St Augustine’s has a big lawn and about his favourite childhood memory and his inspirational idea for celebrating ‘Being Together: Embracing Joy’ in 2022
For the first time in many years, a Holy Week service at St John’s Cathedral will be broadcast to a national audience on ABC Television
“In the ancient coins, lamps, manuscripts, marble statues, and mosaics that remain, the imagery and imagination of a distant time and place can be found again, allowing us to find new ways to tell the stories of the past for the present,” says Dr Sheilagh Ilona O’Brien, with The Rev’d Dr Gregory Jenks
