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Archbishop's Lenten Pastoral Letter 2013 - Visions of the Night
13 February 2013Dear brothers and sisters, In the end, the Bible is a gloriously jubilant book. But it doesn't begin that way, because it's also a grimly realistic book. Its pages are often full of darkness - the murkiness of human affairs, but above all the murkiness...Archbishop Coleridge's Christmas Message 2012
23 December 2012In the birth of Jesus we see a God who is no indistinct and distant deity, nor a name we give to some vague human instinct. The real God has become enfleshed, in every sense of the word. He has lived among us as one of us. God has a face and a name -...Archbishop Coleridge's Christmas Message 2012
23 December 2012In the birth of Jesus we see a God who is no indistinct and distant deity, nor a name we give to some vague human instinct. The real God has become enfleshed, in every sense of the word. He has lived among us as one of us. God has a face and a name -...Archbishop's Advent Pastoral Message 2012
2 December 2012The beginning of Advent finds us deep in the time when the Year of Grace and the Year of Faith overlap. This will be so until Pentecost next year when the Year of Grace will come to an end. The Year of Faith, however, will continue until the feast of...Archbishop's Advent Pastoral Message 2012
2 December 2012The beginning of Advent finds us deep in the time when the Year of Grace and the Year of Faith overlap. This will be so until Pentecost next year when the Year of Grace will come to an end. The Year of Faith, however, will continue until the feast of...- To the people of God of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, For the first time I speak to you as Archbishop, and I do so at Pentecost as we celebrate the birth of the Church when the Holy Spirit, the breath of God, was breathed into a corpse and brought to life...
- To the people of God of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, For the first time I speak to you as Archbishop, and I do so at Pentecost as we celebrate the birth of the Church when the Holy Spirit, the breath of God, was breathed into a corpse and brought to life...