Hear Bishop John Roundhill and St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School chaplain The Rev’d Gillian Moses share about how they use the Prayer Book: “Each one of those Prayer Books is stacked full of beautiful liturgies to help you at different times of life. And, also curiously, they are beautifully laid out”
Churches around Australia will be simultaneously tolling their bells just before midday on Friday 21 August to mark Earth Overshoot Day – the day people have used all the natural resources that the Earth can renew during the year
Hear The Rev’d Gillian Moses and Bishop Jonathan Holland explain the place of the Eucharist, and how our hearts are “set on fire as we chew over the scriptures” and how we then “get inspired when we meet Christ in the bread and the wine”
After ongoing consultations between church and healthcare leaders from many countries, the World Council of Churches has published an ‘Ecumenical Global Health COVID-19 Response Framework’
“Inspired by the Uluru Statement From the Heart, the Anglican Church Southern Queensland has made a submission in support of the call for a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution,” says The Rev’d Canon Bruce Boase, Chair of our Diocesan Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group
“If someone had said in February that I would be officiating my son’s wedding ceremony with all the guests…‘Zooming in’, I would have laughed in disbelief,” says The Rev’d Donna Petersen, who offers helpful tips on how to run a successful Zoom wedding
Hear The Rev’d Penny Jones explain the importance of the reader in this St Francis College short course video: “God speaks through the great individuality of each of us. God is incarnate in each of us. And, as each reader brings their own life, their own body and being to the words of scripture, so God is made present amongst us”
Members of our Diocesan community reflect on the recent Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan launch in St John’s Cathedral, sharing their highlights and learnings and how these will shape their work and ministry from here on in
Under the theme ‘Creative Solidarity in Common Fragility’, people of faith all over the world are encouraged to demonstrate the power of prayer during the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel, held annually between 13 and 21 September, and includes the International Day of Peace on 21 September. Download the brochure resource, which includes a Bible reflection and prayers, action and advocacy suggestions and communication guidelines
Hear Archbishop Phillip Aspinall share about Christ’s presence in the Eucharist and how the Eucharist is about our transformation: “Through the Eucharist we deepen our participation in Christ as Christ meets us and transforms us”