Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things — For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes,...
Father Geoffrey James Taylor was “a single-minded servant of the Divine Master and Eucharistic Lord to whom so many, Anglican and Catholic, owe a huge debt of gratitude.” This tribute was offered some years ago by the Most Reverend Geoffrey Jarrett, Bishop of Lismore,...
The Priest is published twice each year, and all members and associates receive a copy. Overseas subscriptions are also available. Each issue of the The Priest is uploaded twelve months after publication date. This article will be freely available online from December...
The life of Monsignor Francis Lyons Monsignor Frank (Tiger) Lyons was born in Brunswick on 20th December 1921 and on Sunday, 4 September 2011, just short of his 90th birthday, the angels ‘piped the still’ and he died peacefully at St Joseph’s Home, Northcote Victoria....
During a ‘stretch break’ at the Public Lecture for the 2011 ACCC Annual Conference, the National Chairman invited the Editor to speak briefly on the Confraternity’s journal and on the recent book he had edited. The packed lecture theatre, without cue, broke into full...
Fr Rod Bray celebrated his Golden Jubilee on 23rd July 2011 (actual anniversary on 15th) and was called to his Father’s House on 27th August. Bishop Anthony Fisher celebrated his Requiem Mass at St Margaret Mary’s church on 2nd September. An...
In this Vigil Mass we prepare for the Requiem Mass of Fr William Ross at St Stephen’s Cathedral tomorrow morning, to be celebrated by Bishop Michael Putney, Bishop of Townsville, as Fr Ross canonically belonged to that Diocese. From school the young William Ross...
The death on 10 October 2007 in Miami, Florida, USA, after a long battle with leukaemia, of the Papal Nuncio to Australia, His Excellency the Most Rev Ambrose B. De Pauli, was received with great sadness by the ACCC. My last contact with the Nuncio was driving him to...
In the early hours on the feast of the Little Flower, Father Cyril Thomas Cartwright’s 90-year-long earthly pilgrimage came to an end. Father died at Sacred Heart Home, Brockville, Dunedin, where he had been a resident for only a few months, in the care of the Little...