Dean’s Blog - 2020
Prayer in a time of covid-19
Many people may be experiencing the inability to participate in Mass as a deprivation, even as a desolation which is testing their faith. This is perfectly understandable; we, Catholics, are ...
18 March Cathedral programme update
The Archbishop has issued a letter this afternoon suspending all public Masses in the Archdiocese of Perth for an initial two-week period. The Sunday Obligation for the faithful does not ...
Update on health measures at St Mary’s
You will be aware that the Commonwealth heads of government have accepted the advice of the Chief medical officer Brendan Murphy that all gatherings of more than 500 people be ...
Homily for 1 March
Genesis doesn’t mention dinosaurs! But then the last dinosaurs – other than birds – died out about 65 million years ago, while the fossils of our earliest human ancestors are ...
New Dean at St George’s
I had the privilege of being present at the installation of the Very Rev. Chris Chataway as the dean of St George's Cathedral by Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy. Dean Chris has ...
Homily for 1 January
So here we are in 2020, embedded in this time and place. It has been approximately 2020 years since the birth of Christ. Approximately since it is hard to come ...