Snippets from Simon

In these days some are finding it difficult to stay in touch with the Liturgy of our Church.  Some are going to the online Masses, like our own Canberra-Goulburn Catholic Voice .  Others are finding online Mass in other places.  We are still to find out about accessing online Mass for languages other than English and a 'Signed Mass' for the Hearing Impaired (Deaf) Community. The Universalis Website and App can help.  Here is a picture of what the app looks like on an iPhone. There are Android options too .  You need to know that there is a purchase fee up front.  When you set up the app, we strongly recommend that you go to the calendar part of it and set it up on Australia.   This is for a couple of reasons.  One, so that some of our special feast days and events will be included, e.g. Anzac Day, St Mary MacKillop.  Also, the app comes from the US of A and they use a different Lectionary (Bible translation) to us. In addition to th...

On the Prospect of Not Celebrating Easter this Year Will Christ not rise again This year For us? Is he in fact Still Dying among us? In those succumbed To COVID-19. Or is he Still Dead? Is he in the tomb With us? Quarantined from life Before rising Infected and decaying With the virulence Of toxins? Of needy-greedy panic Grabs at shopping shelves? As panicked voices Constantly ask questions What about this? Or that? What now? What now indeed. Will there be no people As the body of Christ Holding their candles Light in the Lord? Signs that Christ Has risen And shines In us and Among us? Or are we consigned To private piety, In our own place, So foreign To genuine faith That seeks to hold us together As parts of the body Of the Risen Lord? What of this distant, Isolated, Seclusion? Dying alone In the dark And waiting In the tomb? When will we rise? When shal...