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Homily – First Sunday in Advent, Year A

Kate Baines 28 November 2025 No Comments
Our Holy Father, Pope Leo, has begun his first Apostolic Journey abroad, visiting Turkey and Lebanon. The journey began on Thursday, 27 November, and will conclude on Tuesday, 2 December.…
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Advent and Christmas

Our Lady of Pentecost 13 December 2024 No Comments
Celebrating the Birth of Christ The principle celebration of the Birth of Christ in the Western part of the Church was on 25 December; in the Eastern part of the…
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Advent and Christmas

Our Lady of Pentecost 6 December 2024 No Comments
The Coming of Christ In the course of Advent, the readings from the Old Testament trace the expectation throughout the history of Israel of someone who was to come in…
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Advent and Christmas

Our Lady of Pentecost 22 November 2024 2 Comments
This week we begin a new series of contributions to the newsletter of Our Lady of Pentecost Parish.  Given that we will begin the new liturgical year in a week’s…
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Women and Nativity

Our Lady of Pentecost 23 December 2022 2 Comments
While they were there the time came for her have her child, and she gave birth to a son, her first born. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid…
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Understanding Our Faith – Advent III

Our Lady of Pentecost 9 December 2022 No Comments
During Advent, old testament readings are very prominent and important.  This is because the new testament sees the old testament as leading up to the coming of Jesus.  In the…
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Understanding our Faith – Advent I

Our Lady of Pentecost 25 November 2022 1 Comment
Advent – Week One The word ‘Advent’ means ‘Coming’. It was originally used for the coming of a king or an emperor or a conqueror to a city.  The populace…
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Sing Nowell!

Our Lady of Pentecost 25 November 2022 No Comments
Tudor Choristers Annual Christmas Concert at the Basilica The Tudor Choristers were founded in Melbourne in 1962 and have performed for most of Australia’s leading concert organisations, including the ABC,…
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Advent with Pope Francis – Part Three

Our Lady of Pentecost 10 December 2021 No Comments
I noted in the first essay that a talk delivered in October by Cardinal Luis Tagle is the inspiration for these short articles. The cardinal presents the thought of Pope…
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Communal Celebrations of Penance

Our Lady of Pentecost 3 December 2021 1 Comment
It has become customary in many parishes to have Communal Celebrations of Penance during Advent and Lent.  For many people such celebrations have taken the place of going to confession…
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