”May it be done to me according to your word.” Luke 1: 26-38 I recall a story published in America of Kristen Weston, an obstetrics nurse at Pine Ridge Hospital in South Dakota. She loved nursing and sees her work among her own Lakota people as a vocation. Kristen wrote about the night she realised…
Author: Fr. John Frauenfelder
John is Vice Rector, Holy Spirit Seminary, Harris Park. This is the Seminary for Diocese of Parramatta. John Frauenfelder is a lecturer, researcher and adult faith educator in the fields of Liturgical Studies, Sacraments, Pastoral Theology and Spirituality for the Ageing.
John has led in Adult Faith Formation for Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Broken Bay, and has been a contributor to The Parish Companion to the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. He has co-authored Lectio Divina for Lent and Advent with Bishop David Walker, a publication of the Diocese of Broken Bay.
Ash Wednesday: Repentance plus
Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2 A smudge of ashes on our foreheads sets us on another Lenten journey. We receive these ashes aware of our failings and regret for our sins of avarice, of selfishness, of bigotry. But this day calls us to more…
An Easter People, a “resurrection people”?
As I walked with our faith community through the days of Lent with an eye on Easter, our journey’s climax, the idea of being an Easter People or People of the Resurrection confronted me and became even more confronting as I began to read Tomas Halik’s “The Afternoon of Christianity” and the Scripture Readings for…