Silver service at Christ Church..!

Lovely truth expressed in this window in St John’s Balmain where I’m conducting a quiet day for brethren and companions of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd. The Saviour ‘beholds’ the city...of Sydney

How blessed I am. I returned to find two of the brothers living in the house eating together and then cooking food for any who come tomorrow, then Compline sung together in church. Sometimes the silence is deep here.

Looking forward to this year's Walk with Mary on the 22nd. It's a great witness! Come and join us....

Way before 7 am on a Saturday morning and the Retreat Public house on Sydney Road is adding to our community life with the thumping sounds of bass..why? Simply selfish. @Sydney_Road Revitalise Sydney Rd Moreland Council

Worship & Bible Study youtu.be/oLJPoe6y3tE via YouTube Just a contribution to@our life together at Christ Church.

youtu.be/GMu0txZSBhs Some might enjoy our mass for Pentecost and in particular our praying of the Lord's Prayer....

Can Melbourne be so wonderful? My Columbian house resident who has very little money, works so hard, not least for the Lord has had a second bike stolen in as many months. So irritating and frustrating and expensive..

Food for the Journey Session Four youtu.be/PeL9mmKj0xY via YouTube. Might be of interest to some at a loose end in lock down...

How frustrating Western Union can be. Trying to send donations to a convent orphanage in Cameroon. Legitimate questions asked to ensure safety, then funds approved only to be then withheld and after rude and abrupt further conversation with three departments, cancelled.

Some of the crowd at our ecumenical gathering for Palm Sunday in Brunswick..

And our apostolic donkey deserved some honouring with incense at the end of the procession!

So Christ Church begins to open up to the Sydney Road. No trumpets, but Joshua eat your heart out...

‘Pool boys’ Ron and Andrew deliver the baptismal pool in readiness for immersion baptism on Sunday!

What else do you do on Easter Day?

As I receive my second AZ jab very good to see at least some sensible young Victorians accepting the 1 in a million risk...

I'm not sure how this can be justified as consistent with the restrictions placed on ordinary Victorians, and indeed on religious bodies constrained in filming to the same five people per 'shoot', to say nothing of the selectivity around who can be deemed an 'authorised worker'.

Beef and roast pumpkin toasted sanga with the Bishop's own mayo. $10 at the Lamb & Flag, 264 Sydney Rd

Tuna melt sandwich, at the Lamb and Flag on Sydney Rd. Tuna with dill and caper mayo with tomato, red onion and melting tasty cheese. With sweet potato crisps.

So Bendigo Bank is pulling the plug on the provision of services to hard pressed charities. No more salary sacrifice cards or facilities provided for workers. No notification given to cardholders. No grace period. "The biggest thing we do is to do the right thing" No you don't!