Ragamuffin Invitation
The Ragamuffin Invitation 5/7/26 Today’s gospel offers an invitation, but it is only to a select group of people. In fact, if you were going...Continue reading→
Attitude of Gratitude
An Attitude of Gratitude I went to school a long time ago, like several decades ago, but some of the teachers are still memorable for...Continue reading→
Easter 4 Reflection
Most of you know that I grew up on a wheat / sheep farm in the Wimmera. With mixed feelings I remember droving sheep with my father and brother. We had to take the sheep to a farm where there was a facility to drench them. The time it took to get there seemed endless....Continue reading→
250 words (more or less) from Fr. David
In the film “The Quest for the Holy Grail” an excited throng bring a woman to their village leader claiming that she is a witch and that she ought to be burnt. Her ‘trial’ goes like this.“How do you know she is a witch?” “She looks like one!”“They dressed me up like this” comes the...Continue reading→
Easter 3 Streaming
-- Sunday Mornings mass will be live streamed from Christ Church Hamilton on the 26th of April at 10:30am Fr. David Oulton droulton72@gmail.com
250 words more or less from Fr. David
It used to be a doorbell, a handshake, a cuppa, a chocolate biscuit and a conversation. Reading the nuances, asking the right question at the right time and knowing when to bask in the silence. This was how I connected. But I do things differently in April 2020. My time is spent pushing buttons on...Continue reading→
Easter 3 Reflection
Easter 3 26th of April. Matthew 28:8 Suddenly Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!’ And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. The clutching of the feet is interesting. For one thing it tells us the posture of the disciples.They must have been pretty much prostate on the ground which...Continue reading→
250 words (more or less) from Fr. David
Someone of ‘mature of years’ kindly phoned the other day. They reflected that the millennial generation will speak of ‘pre’ and ‘post Covid19’. They will be able to recollect what life was like before the pandemic, what it was like during and what life is like after.At the moment we haven’t emerged out the other...Continue reading→
A reflection for Easter 2
I’ll call her Kerry. Kerry lived a while back and in a parish many kilometres from here. Kerry had terminal cancer and she was a terrifyingly close in age to me. Kerry didn’t come to church much, but she was always receptive to a visit. The hospitality was generous and the conversation was gregarious. There...Continue reading→
Easter 2 Streaming
Sunday's Mass on the 19th of April, will be streamed at 10:30am from St. Mary's Dunkeld. https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton
Trust
Princess Matilda is articulate, swift of mind, exquisitely manicured and media savvy. But Matilda has a problem. A vicious pestilence has broken out in her tiny kingdom of 17,000 souls. At the moment the afflicted are small in number, but she is shoulder to cheek with neighbours on every side and this pestilence will not...Continue reading→
Easter Day
The Easter Sundays mass will be streamed from one of the parish churches at 10:30am every Sunday morning. Please click on this link. https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanHamilton