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1 - Feb 2016 - Reflection: Archbishop Fisher’s homily at 2016 Chrism Mass, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
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After becoming ill at Christmas-time Archbishop Anthony Fisher gave the Chrism Mass at the end of Lent at St Marys Cathedral in Sydney.
2 - Feb 2016 - Mary “treasured these things and pondered them in her heart”, Peter Westmore
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Our familiarity with Lukes infancy narrative caused by its repetition at Christmas-time obscures its extraordinary content which could have come only from Mary herself.
3 - Dec 2015 - Reflection: Christmas: a time of light, peace and joy, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
This is the homily from the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord given at St Stephens Cathedral Brisbane on Christmas Day 2014.
4 - Dec 2015 - China: New clampdown on believers in China, Bernardo Cervellera
Last year Christmas parties and Christmas ceremonies were banned from universities and schools while in Zhejiang thousands of crosses were torn down from bell towers and churches so as not ruin the skyline.
5 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: SSM will threaten religious liberty in Australia: Archbishop Fisher, AD2000 Report
Dogmatic secularists ban Christmas decorations from public places church bells from towers crucifixes from schools or nurses necks and any residual religious values in law and policy.
6 - Oct 2015 - Books: THROUGH THE YEAR WITH POPE FRANCIS: Daily Reflections, ed. Kevin Cotter, Paul Simmons
This would make a good Christmas present for anyone wanting to have a book of daily reflections for 2016.
7 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report
As a result of the trip Castro made Christmas a national holiday.
8 - Jun 2015 - Canonisation: Pope Francis canonises four heroic nuns, AD2000 Report
She received first Holy Communion on 8 December 1864 and on Christmas Day in 1868 at just twelve years of age she made a vow of perpetual virginity.
9 - Feb 2015 - Letters: The Church in China, Paul Simmons
The left-wing Guardian recently reported Chinas estimated 60-70 million Christians have not escaped persecution during the Christmas period according to reports from Beijing suggesting their plight has worsened under the new leadership.
10 - Feb 2015 - What Pope Francis really said to the Roman Curia, AD2000 Report
There were widespread reports in the secular media that in his Christmas address to the Roman Curia on 22 December Pope Francis trenchantly criticised the conduct of the priests bishops archbishops and cardinals who comprise the central administration of the Church in the Vatican.
11 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Anti-Christian vandalism in Europe and US On Christmas Day a vandal entered a parish in Douai France and decapitated the heads of eight statues in the Nativity scene.
12 - Dec 2014 - Reflection: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light, Pope Francis
The prophecy of Isaiah The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light (Is 9:1) never ceases to touch us especially when we hear it proclaimed in the liturgy of Christmas night.
13 - Dec 2014 - Support: 2014 Fighting Fund Progress
Donations not received at the time this Christmas AD2000 goes to the printer will be acknowledged in the February 2015 edition.
14 - Dec 2014 - Obituary: Fr Benedict Groeschel, aged 81, dies in New Jersey, Peter Westmore
As the holidays approached he would be especially determined to make sure that people who otherwise would have no Christmas Thanksgiving or Easter dinner would be given enough to have a small feast.
15 - Dec 2014 - Editorial: The Coming of Christ, Peter Westmore
As the Christian world prepares to commemorate the coming of Jesus Christ the long-promised Messiah who was to set his people free we look on the commercialisation of Christmas with decidedly mixed feelings.
16 - Nov 2014 - Law: What is the separation of church and state?, Frank Mobbs
This has led to such absurdities as penalising the display of Nativity scenes on government properties at Christmas time.
17 - Nov 2014 - Anglican: The Ordinariate in Gippsland: the first year
Fr Ken Clark has been called on to assist in Maffra and Cowwarr during busy times such as Easter and Christmas and has been pleased to assist the Cathedral parish by doing some supply work in Rosedale and Briagalong.
18 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Following John Paul IIs visit to Cuba in 1998 religious processions and Christmas were reinstated .
19 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
In his 2010 Christmas Address to the Roman Curia Pope Benedict XVI reflected at some length on the notion of conscience in the writings of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman contrasting it with a false notion of conscience which is pervasive in our time.
20 - May 2014 - Sister empowers northern India's women with education
One day at Christmas time Lilly was entrusted with the familys fattened goat.
21 - Apr 2014 - Reflection: Lent: our preparation for Easter, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
We celebrate Christmas with 12 days of feasting and Easter with 50!
22 - Apr 2014 - Letters: Asylum seeker statement, Richard Congram
The sight on television of well fed well groomed people disembarking at Christmas Island does not excite compassion.
23 - Apr 2014 - Russia: the rebirth of religious belief, Peter Westmore
Russian leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev are frequently seen attending sacred liturgy particularly on the great feast days of Christmas and Easter.
24 - Feb 2014 - Reflections: Australia Day: A time for thanks and commitment, Cardinal George Pell
Australia Day does not rate at all in the liturgical year while it does not hold any place in our secular world to compare with the Christmas break or Anzac Day.
25 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Religious freedom, Keiron Long
Over the Christmas period The Australian newspaper ran a series of articles about the appointment of Tim Wilson to the Australian Human Rights Commission and also drew attention to the lack of tolerance towards Christians around the world.
26 - Feb 2014 - Pope Francis repeats world peace plea
In his Christmas message shortly after being declared Time magazines Person of the Year Pope Francis appealed for an end to the civil war in Syria repeating comments he had made last September calling for reconciliation in the deeply divided country.
27 - Feb 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Christmas a national holiday in Iraq According to a report by Joseph Mahmoud of AsiaNews in a new and important step towards the Christian minority the Iraqi government accepted a request by the Chaldean Patriarchate to recognise 25 December as an official day of celebration and a national holiday for all of the countrys citizens.
28 - Dec 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: 'Make room for God', Benedict XVI
There is another verse from the Christmas story on which I should like to reflect with you the angels hymn of praise which they sing out following the announcement of the newborn Saviour: Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased.
29 - Dec 2013 - Books: HOLY SEE, UNHOLY ME by Tim Fischer, John Barich
In 1929 he gave the Vatican one of the worlds first radio stations and later his daughter turned on a beam on her fathers yacht in Genoa which activated the Sydney Town Hall Christmas lights.
30 - Oct 2013 - Books: A Book of Saints and Heroes, Heroines, by Joanna Bogle, Val Prendergast
As Joanna writes her vision of Jesus as a tiny baby surrounded by light with angels singing and his mother kneeling beside Him has influenced the artwork on our Christmas cards.
31 - Jun 2013 - The strange story of Mr Douglas Hyde, Damian Wyld
It was the almost fantastic tale of a hardcore Marxist couple who having put their children to bed in post-war London one evening were having a chat about Christmas what their children should be raised to believe and what sort of life they should live.
32 - Feb 2013 - Royal Commission: The Church in Australia faces moment of truth, Peter Westmore
In his recent Christmas reflection Cardinal Pell said My heart the hearts of all believers of all people of good will go out to all those who cannot find peace at this time especially those who have suffered at the hands of fellow Christians; Christian officials priests religious teachers.
33 - Dec 2012 - Books: A BIBLICAL SEARCH FOR THE CHURCH CHRIST FOUNDED, by Linus F. Clovis, Michael Daniel
For this reason it would make an ideal confirmation or Christmas present for a teenage child or grand-child but would also be useful reading for adults as an aid in providing a rationale to younger family members when they ask questions about the faith.
34 - Dec 2012 - Christmas: Latin Mass in Melbourne
Christmas Masses in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite At St Aloysius Church 233 Balaclava Rd Caulfield North Christmas Day Midnight: Solemn Midnight Mass with blessing of the Crib 7.
35 - Dec 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: the new consoling certainty of Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI
The kindness and love of God our Saviour for mankind were revealed: this is the new consoling certainty that is granted to us at Christmas.
36 - Nov 2012 - The new evangelisation: restore a sense of the sacred, Andrew Kania
Christmas First Holy Communion Confirmation weddings or funerals.
37 - Nov 2012 - Worldwide religious persecution continues, Cardinal Timothy Dolan
This assault which occurred at Saint Finbars Catholic Church followed a similar attack two weeks before at the Church of Christ compound which killed three people and wounded 38 others and Christmas Day attacks that saw more than 32 martyred for their faith at Catholic churches as they gathered to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace.
38 - Oct 2012 - The Year of Faith and true unity of faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Pope Benedict XVI reflected at length upon the rupture in his first Christmas address to the Roman Curia in December 2005 which also marked the fortieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council.
39 - Jul 2012 - 'Born again': how to change from a nominal to a "living" Christian, Andrew Kania
Poignant scene In one the most poignant scenes ever to be sculptured on film the monks celebrate a Christmas meal together but this Christmas meal begins to parallel The Last Supper: a group of friends eating with one another celebrating each others company and understanding their precarious hold on life as they walk the tightrope of mortality.
40 - May 2012 - Benedict XVI builds on John Paul II's historic Cuba visit, Michael Gilchrist
If the government responds positively it would be a further step forward for the liberty of the Church in Cuba after Blessed John Paul II succeeded in convincing Fidel Castro to restore Christmas as a civil holiday.
41 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.
42 - Mar 2012 - Letters: Social get-together, Richard Congram
The Christmas Vigil Mass I attended in Sydney was a resounding success in at least one sense of the word.
43 - Mar 2012 - The global financial crisis and the West's fertility decline, Babette Francis
Barren West One might think these comments are to be expected from an economist connected with the Vatican but witty syndicated columnist Mark Steyn who will be touring Australia in February and is not connected with the Vatican in a pre-Christmas article wrote about the other Christmas story: the pregnancy of Elizabeth and her husband Zacharias who is surprised by his impending paternity for I am an old man and my wife well stricken in years (Luke 1:13).
44 - Feb 2012 - Books: SLO-MO TSUNAMI And Other Poems, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
For example in his wickedly funny satire on the commercialisation of Christmas titled The True Meaning of Christmas Dawe quotes Bart Simpson as a preface: Arent we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas - the birth of the Baby Santa?
45 - Feb 2012 - Letters: Catholic reading, Gerard Wilson
They were expecting orders for millions of Kindle ebook readers for Christmas 2011.
46 - Feb 2012 - Letters: Moral relativism, Fr Bernard McGrath
We prayed for these at Christmas time as we recalled how our Creator took on our human nature to save us from our fallen selves.
47 - Feb 2012 - Curia: Benedict XVI names 22 new cardinals for his fourth consistory, Peter Westmore
In his 2010 Christmas message Cardinal-elect Tong called on the Chinese Government to free the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo activist Zhao Lianhai who exposed the tainted milk scandal and all those who are in jail for promoting human rights.
48 - Dec 2011 - Reflection: Advent faith, Christmas and the Pope's call to evangelise, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The season of Advent provides a unique occasion each year to reflect upon the coming of Christ in our lives by the grace of the story of Christmas.
49 - Dec 2011 - Events: Advent and Christmas Liturgies - Extraordinary Form
00 pm on Sunday 18 December Christmas Eve Solemn Matins 8.
50 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
The year ends on a high note with a full-scale production of a play on the Christmas theme featuring students from all year levels.
51 - Dec 2011 - Religious freedom: The plight of Christians in Islamic countries, Babette Francis
At this Christmas season it is difficult to be joyful about the state of the world because there is so much sad news about the situation of Christians in Islamic countries.
52 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Catholics Come Home evangelisation initiative Catholics Come Home has announced a major prime time evangelisation initiative set to air on American TV networks beginning in mid-Advent and ending after Christmas.
53 - Dec 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: From his Christmas homily, Pope Benedict XVI
The above are extracts from Pope Benedict XVIs 2010 Christmas homily in St Peters Basilica.
54 - Nov 2011 - Society: Finding hope in the midst of secularism, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Culture of death In his 2010 Christmas Address to the College of Cardinals the Roman Curia and the Governorate of Vatican City State Benedict XVI described the perversion of ethos of the moral norm which has even entered into the thinking of some theologians in the Church and which has provided an ideological foundation for a culture which is predominantly marked by violence and death.
55 - Sep 2011 - Books: THE COUNCIL IN QUESTION: a Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism, Fr Glen Tattersall
Available from Freedom Publishing) In his first Christmas address to the Roman curia on 22 December 2005 Pope Benedict XVI spoke of the turbulence that had arisen in the life of the Church in the wake of the Second Vatican Council as the result of an ongoing contest over the correct interpretation of the Council itself: broadly between a hermeneutic of rupture and discontinuity on the one hand and on the other a hermeneutic of reform of renewal in the continuity of the one subject - Church which the Lord has given to us.
56 - Sep 2011 - Sacred Art: Catholic church statuary: a craft in danger, Christopher Akehurst
There are Christmas crib sets and confirmation cards votive lights and vestments.
57 - Aug 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
These are grouped around the major seasons of the Christian calendar: Christmas Easter Pentecost etc.
58 - May 2011 - Culture: The decline of the Christian West, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Pope Benedict XVI in his 2010 Christmas Address to the College of Cardinals the Roman Curia and the Governorate of Vatican City State spoke clearly and strongly about the profoundly disordered moral state in which our world finds itself today.
59 - Mar 2011 - New Divine Mercy parish and school for Perth, Fr Paul Fox
The parish priest has a First Class relic of St Faustina which was brought from Poland before Christmas and a beautiful two metre oil painting of the Divine Mercy which will be visible to all who enter the church.
60 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech
All at AD2000 are deeply saddened by news of the death of Bishop Grech on 28 December 2010 after he was hospitalised with a sudden illness two days before Christmas.
61 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI
An extract from Pope Benedict XVIs homily at the midnight Mass for Christmas 2009.
62 - Oct 2010 - Letters: Little Angels, Fr M. Shadbolt
The real reason I suspect was the grumpy priest She next turned up at the parish house a year or so later just a few days before Christmas accompanied by her parents.
63 - Oct 2010 - New Missal: Why we need the new translation of the Mass, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
In the collect for the third day before Christmas the adjective immaculate also vanished.
64 - Sep 2010 - Vocations: The story of a grandmother and her love of the priesthood, Andrew Kania
Franciscans Out of respect for Babia we always celebrated both the Julian and Gregorian calendar at Christmas and Easter.
65 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The angel who died on Christmas Day, Arthur N. Ballingall
Six weeks later on Christmas Eve an hour before Midnight Mass the priest was chatting with a visiting missionary doctor when there was a loud knock on the parish door.
66 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
9% at Christmas and Easter and the remainder occasionally or never.
67 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
However fewer people were receiving communion regularly and in the sixth century the Church first declared a minimum: Christians must receive communion at least three times each year: at Easter Christmas and Pentecost.
68 - Mar 2010 - Archbishop Saldanha reports from Pakistan, Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha
A postscript to Babette Francis article in the February issue of AD2000 about present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan is the following extract from a letter written at Christmas 2009 by His Grace Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore Pakistan.
69 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
Amsterdam was festive last Christmas with dazzling light displays illuminating the Damrak and Dam Square.
70 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
After studying Pius XIIs 1942 Christmas message the Reich Central Security Office concluded In a manner never known before the Pope has repudiated the National Socialist New European Order.
71 - Feb 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
This movie highly praised for its authenticity at the time of its release in 1999 is now available on DVD and would make an ideal Christmas present.
72 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Greetings from India, Fr S. John Joseph PP, VF
From my grateful heart I send greetings to AD2000 and its readers for a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
73 - Feb 2010 - Indian martyrs: Present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan, Babette Francis
While Australians have been enjoying the Christmas and summer holiday season spare time to pray for our fellow Christians in India and Pakistan.
74 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Irish child abuse cover-up: four bishops resign Two more Irish bishops resigned on Christmas Day in the wake of a damning investigation into decades of church cover-ups of child abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.
75 - Dec 2009 - Events: Melbourne - The Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962 Missal)
30pm) CHRISTMAS Solemn Matins (Thursday 24 December 8.
76 - Dec 2009 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: When God entered human history, Pope Benedict XVI
Saint Lukes account of the Christmas story tells us that God first raised the veil of His hiddenness to people of very lowly status people who were looked down upon by society at large - to shepherds looking after their flocks in the fields around Bethlehem.
77 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
If you have friends who are persecuted Catholic intellectuals or thwarted and unappreciated Catholic artists then this book will cheer them up; and if you have friends who seem to be sinking into a pit of Protestant pragmatism or need to be liberated from the bog of Jansenism then this book should also find its way into their next birthday basket or Christmas stocking.
78 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
His interpretation of St Matthews account of the Passion was performed at the Vatican before Easter in 2007; his Christmas oratorio premiered that year at a Catholic Church in Washington DC.
79 - May 2009 - Death of a Child: The Pot of Basil, Will Elsin
As part of human tragedy and possibly somewhat fancifully the song nevertheless brings to mind two remarkably similar modern episodes the second over Christmas in 2007.
80 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
They would make ideal Christmas gifts for children or grandchildren which introduce or reinforce different aspects of the Catholic faith.
81 - Mar 2009 - Letters: Generosity, Fr A. Joseph
From the bottom of my heart I wish AD2000 readers a very joyful Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
82 - Feb 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
They would make ideal Christmas gifts for children or grandchildren which introduce or reinforce different aspects of the Catholic faith.
83 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Thanks from India, Fr S. John Joseph
Once again we thank you and herewith we send our Christmas and New year wishes to you and to all your readers.
84 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
These will be released to coincide with the feasts of Easter Pentecost the Assumption Exaltation of the Cross Christ the King and Christmas.
85 - Dec 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: how God became a child for us, Pope Benedict XVI
Christmas has become the Feast of gifts in imitation of God who has given himself to us.
86 - Dec 2008 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
This collection brings together for the first time his beautiful and inspiring Christmas and historical poems.
87 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The bishops of Orissa have meanwhile petitioned state authorities to rebuild the demolished churches preferably before Christmas.
88 - Dec 2008 - Editorial: Another Christmas and New Year edition, Michael Gilchrist
As the latest Christmas and New Year edition of AD2000 goes to press it hardly seems possible that over 20 years have passed since the late Bob Santamaria took the bold step of launching a religious monthly just when even secular periodicals were struggling to remain viable.
89 - Nov 2008 - Human rights: Religious persecution in China, India, Vietnam, Fr John Flynn LC
Hindu extremists attacked Christian villagers and churches in the Kandhamal district over the last Christmas holidays.
90 - Nov 2008 - Editorial: All Saints Day and All Souls Day, Peter Westmore
A consequence of the decision of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in 2001 to reduce the number of Holy Days of Obligation to Christmas Day and the Assumption (August 15) is that the great feasts of All Saints Day (November 1) and All Souls Day (November 2) are rapidly disappearing from the consciousness even of practising Catholics.
91 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
For secular cynical Sydney awash with 300000 pilgrims - laity priests and religious in their distinctive attire - it was like being flooded with the joy and grace of the Christmas season - on steroids!
92 - Jul 2008 - Religious faith and the power of music and song, Andrw Kania
Christmas carol In the same year John Francis Wade (1711-1786) a Catholic layman Jacobite and talented music teacher had decided to flee religious persecution in his English homeland and arrived on the shores of France eventually settling in the French town of Douai.
93 - May 2008 - Letters: Brisbane, Franklin J. Wood
My wife was hospitalised in Holy Spirit Hospital in northern Brisbane for nine days during the Christmas period.
94 - Apr 2008 - Legal Year homily: Truth and the law: legal should also mean moral, Bishop Peter Elliott
In this context just before Christmas in an aggressive article in The Australian a secularist journalist invoked the separation of Church and State.
95 - Mar 2008 - Letters: From India, Fr. A. Joseph
Joseph wishing you and all your dear ones a very blissful Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
96 - Mar 2008 - Letters: 'Re-ordered' churches, Brian Tooley
No uniforms only street clothes for the altar servers no washing of the hands the congregation allowed to say in part the words of Consecration and Masses for for forgiveness of sin at Easter and Christmas.
97 - Feb 2008 - Books: A YEARBOOK OF SEASONS AND CELEBRATIONS, by Joanna Bogle, Eric Hester
It would be worth buying just for some of its appendices - Christmas and Lenten quizzes with answers and a superb list of recommended books for children.
98 - Feb 2008 - Letters: From India, Fr. A. Alex Prabhu
Prayerful wishes to you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2008.
99 - Feb 2008 - Letters: Virgin Birth, Eamonn and Pat Keane
It is a modern fad at Christmas and Easter to propose bizarre new interpretations of established Christian beliefs or to assert that some Christian dogmas which do not sit easily with modern sensibilities can be dispensed with.
100 - Feb 2008 - Letters: Natural Law, Fr Bernard McGrath
Christmas is an excellent time to contemplate the nature of man in society the meaning of life and suffering and death.
101 - Dec 2007 - Reflection: May we deepen our longing for the Lord's coming, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
In fact I remember the day one of my aunts gave each of our families a grave for Christmas.
102 - Dec 2007 - Events: Latin Masses for Christmas in Caulfield and Kew
Christmas in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite at St Aloysius Caulfield: Solemn Matins: 9.
103 - Dec 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
We could even have a decision by Christmas 2008.
104 - Oct 2007 - A Christian sceptic's challenge: why atheism has no answers, Babette Francis
Non-believer Our local Melbourne non-believer is Jill Singer columnist for the Herald Sun who entertained us all on Christmas Day 2006 in an article claiming that God does not exist.
105 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
Bach (1685-1750) originally composed for trumpet oboe and strings is a Christmas favourite.
106 - Mar 2007 - Books: The Glory of These Forty Days, by Fr James Tolhurst, Michael Gilchrist
Available from Freedom Publishing) Fr James Tolhursts latest book is a well-timed follow up to his earlier excellent Come Lord Jesus: Reflections on the Advent and Christmas Seasons with the shift now to Lent and Easter.
107 - Mar 2007 - Catholicism flourishes in South Korea, Richard Stokes
Recently we returned to stay with her over the Christmas-New Year break.
108 - Mar 2007 - WYDSYD08: Salesian provincial urges parishes to sponsor Timorese to World Youth Day 2008, Peter Westmore
These include Corpus Christi All Saints Day All Souls Day the Immaculate Conception and Christmas Day.
109 - Dec 2006 - Events: Advent and Christmas Ceremonies, Priestly Fraternity of St Peter
Christmas in the Classical Latin Liturgy (Roman Missal of 1962) Christmas Eve St Aloysius Caulfield North 9.
110 - Dec 2006 - Books: COME, LORD JESUS:Reflections on the Advent and Christmas Seasons, James Tolhurst, Michael Gilchrist
COME LORD JESUS: Reflections on the Advent and Christmas Seasons by James Tolhurst (Gracewing/Freedom Publishing 2006 82pp $19.
111 - Dec 2006 - Editorial: The first Christmas, Peter Westmore
For most of us Christmas is an occasion for families to come together and exchange gifts a time of peace on earth and goodwill to all men.
112 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Abortion and the Annunciation, Greg Dunne
Whilst not suggesting for one moment that we should downplay the feast of Christmas I feel that if the Church were to place greater emphasis on the fact that Christ was already on Earth in Marys womb from the moment she accepted Gods will this could drive home to people the enormity of any decision to abort a child.
113 - Jun 2006 - Books: The Defamation of Pius XII, by Ralph McInerny, Michael Daniel
In fact the Nazis were angered by his muted references to the treatment of minorities for example in his 1942 Christmas messages.
114 - Apr 2006 - Reflection: The redeeming Cross: at the centre of Christian faith, Cardinal George Pell
In Australia we have more at our Christmas Masses than at Easter.
115 - Apr 2006 - 1973 Decree: A Fourth Rite of Reconciliation for Queensland?, AD2000
Two sample penitential services were distributed to all parishes for use or adaptation as part of their preparation for last Christmas.
116 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Gender neutral, P.F. Gill
From the Gospels and Christmas carols over the ages both Catholics and Christians of all denominations have always heard the Magi referred to as either The Three Wise Men or The Three Wise Kings.
117 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Guitars, John Daly
While her contribution is really peripheral to the main argument (classical Spanish guitar on Christmas Eve in an ancient church hardly compares with strumming out Come as you are on a normal Sunday in a post-Vatican II church) it nevertheless provides an opportunity to tie the thread back to where it started namely the recent Synod of Bishops.
118 - Mar 2006 - The distribution of Holy Communion past and present: an historical survey, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
As Charlemagne crowned by Pope Leo III in St Peters Basilica on Christmas Day 800 as the first Holy Roman Emperor said: This Eucharistic Mystery is sometimes called Viaticum because if anyone enjoys it on the way he will arrive at that life which he already has within himself (Liber vii 101).
119 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Catholic magazines needed in India, Fr A. Joseph
Editor: AD2000 sent a parcel of magazines to Fr Joseph before Christmas.
120 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Beautiful music (letter), Josephine Landsberg
Some 25 years ago I was travelling in Europe and was in Cadiz on Christmas Eve.
121 - Dec 2005 - Editorial: Christmas: time for Christians to stand up!, Michael Gilchrist
Over recent years there has been a surprising and unexpected - but entirely gratifying - increase in the number of people attending church services at Christmas including Midnight Mass.
122 - Oct 2005 - Conference: C.S. Lewis: defender of objective truth, Adam Glyn Cooper
And at the end of the year just before Christmas Lewis penned the preface to the third volume in his space trilogy.
123 - Sep 2005 - Books: THE ART OF GIVING by Francine Black, Kerrie Allen
Francine Black offers suggestions about what we might give as gifts for Christmas Easter going away wedding anniversaries by year for hostesses invalids sick children people who have everything children by age.
124 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
95 Seven Bells to Bethlehem Oliver Treanor Among the Churchs most beautiful prayers the O Antiphons have for twelve centuries voiced the Christian longing for Christs coming at Christmas.
125 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Government review of RE in State Schools (letter), Maureen Federico
While general worship in the Christian churches is sadly declining children are vitally interested in the real story of Christmas and Easter and why and how we celebrate these great festivals.
126 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The Chinese Government has established a history of crackdowns on the underground Church at times when religious sentiments are high - such as Easter and Christmas.
127 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
At special times of the year such as Christmas the students set up welcome points in the area greeting clubbers with carol singing hot drinks and mince pies invitations to events in the church and leaflets explaining what the Catholic faith is all about.
128 - Feb 2005 - Books: Books to read in 2005
It includes readings and blessings for Advent Christmas Lent and Easter as well as table graces for children and a set of blessings for special foods.
129 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Message from India (letter), Fr S. John Joseph
A merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.
130 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Catholic youth (letter), Jim Brown
Five-year-olds without question believe in fairies Father Christmas and God.
131 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
What US Christians believe about Christmas An article in Newsweek last December on the birth of Jesus cites that magazines most recent poll on what Americans believe about Christmas.
132 - Dec 2004 - Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world, Pope John Paul II
This is the reason why on Christmas night songs of joy ring out in every corner of the earth in every language.
133 - Dec 2004 - Books: Inspiring Christmas Gifts
95 Celebrating the Liturgical Seasons Catherine amp; Peter Fournier An illustrated book full of wonderful activities for children and families to help them celebrate Advent Christmas and Epiphany.
134 - Nov 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
95 Celebrating the Liturgical Seasons Catherine amp; Peter Fournier An illustrated book full of wonderful activities for children and families to help them celebrate Advent Christmas and Epiphany.
135 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
The Holy Father called for the Joyful Mysteries to be said on Monday and Saturday the Luminous on Thursday the Sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday and the Glorious on Wednesday and Sunday (except for Sundays during the Christmas season when the Joyful Mysteries are said and the Sundays of Lent when the Sorrowful Mysteries are said).
136 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Name changes? (letter), Frank Mobbs
For example The Nativity is arguably preferable to Christmas as in other languages (Nativiteacute; Navidad Nativitagrave;) but it seems impossible to dislodge for the time being.
137 - Feb 2004 - Books: The Rosary : Chain of Hope, by Benedict J. Groeschel CFR, Michael E. Daniel
It would also make an ideal Christmas gift.
138 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
The good news of Christmas rings out in the Church and in the world.
139 - Dec 2003 - Editorial: The challenge of Christmas, Peter Westmore
Despite the extent to which it has been secularised in the contemporary world Christmas is still the occasion on which people everywhere - even in non-Christian countries such as Japan - celebrate the great virtues of fellowship of family of giving.
140 - Nov 2003 - Reflection: Cardinal Pell on Pope St Gregory the Great and the duties of bishops, Cardinal George Pell
Our task in this age of change technology and advertising is to explain the apostolic tradition to an Australian society which yearns for the consolations of religion but is hesitant or hostile to restraint and sacrifice: to a society which still turns to the Church at times of tragedy and even at Christmas but which is also partly tone-deaf to the call of the Spirit.
141 - Jul 2003 - Catholic Literature: Hilaire Belloc's 50th anniversary: is he 'yesterday's man'?, Br Christian Moe FSC
The appearance last year of Old Thunder: a Life of Hilaire Belloc by Joseph Pearce appreciatively reviewed in the Christmas 2002 issue of AD2000 was a timely reminder of the 50th anniversary of Bellocs death on 15 July 1953.
142 - Apr 2003 - Ecumenism: Christian unity: major obstacles still remain, David Schutz
In a report in the AD2000 Christmas edition (page 10) a prominent US Catholic academic Robert George responded to Methodist theologian Thomas Odens paper The new ecumenism and Christian witness to society at a gathering of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington DC saying: As a Catholic panelist I suppose that I am expected to say something critical but Im afraid I must disappoint this expectation.
143 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Invalid (letter), Maria Lossberg
Bishop Morris of Toowoomba has persisted in his defiance of Rome by allowing once again the Third Rite of Reconciliation throughout the parishes of Toowoomba City in the week leading up to Christmas 2002.
144 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Third rite (letter), Norm Power
Events occurred during the week preceding Christmas 2002 that have caused considerable disquiet among members of the Catholic community in the Diocese of Toowoomba.
145 - Mar 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Bishop Weigand said he was inspired by a confrontation before Christmas between Davis and a priest who runs a home for disadvantaged children who told the Governor that he wasnt welcome.
146 - Dec 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II on Christmas: 'the mystery of humanity redeemed by Christ', Pope John Paul II
A mystery hidden in Gods eternal plan; a mystery which in a certain way became history with the incarnation of the Eternal Word of the Father; a mystery which the Church re-lives with profound emotion each Christmas.
147 - Dec 2002 - Books: Eucharistic Devotion : renewing a timeless tradition / Heart of St Alphonsus, Michael Daniel
Muckerman has chosen material from his writings and grouped them thematically with material on the Sacred Heart Corpus Christi Christmas and Our Lady and St Joseph.
148 - Dec 2002 - Editorial: Christmas 2002: the state of the Church, Peter Westmore
As we approach Christmas and the end of 2002 it is timely to look at the state of the Church today at least as it exists in the West which traditionally has been the heartland of Christian belief and practice.
149 - Nov 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
Based on the Gospel it is designed to show children the true meaning of Christmas in a way that they can understand.
150 - Sep 2002 - Marilen Studios: a Christian approach to business, Joe Padero
I created Happy Birthday Jesus because I wanted children to know the true meaning of Christmas: a celebration of the birth of Jesus.
151 - May 2002 - Letters: Harry Potter? (letter), John F. Doherty
His argument that because suits of armour are enchanted to sing Christmas carols the stories are therefore Christian is too absurd to warrant further comment.
152 - May 2002 - General absolutions continue in the Toowoomba Diocese, Michael Gilchrist
Throughout much of the Toowoomba Diocese in fact in the period leading up to Easter 2002 the Third Rite (or general absolution) seemed a routine event - as it has been in the lead-ups to Christmas and Easter over the past three years or more.
153 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
) While regular Sunday worship among Catholics has fallen from about 50 per cent in 1960 to 18 per cent today attendance at Christmas and Easter is more than double this (a larger percentage increase than occurs in the USA) and the demand for Catholic services in schools hospitals welfare and aged care continues to rise.
154 - May 2002 - Liturgy: New edition of the Roman Missal released: vernacular translations to come, Michael Gilchrist
In September of that year Archbishop Francesco Pio Tamburrino Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship predicted the full Missal would be in print by Christmas 2000.
155 - Apr 2002 - Books: 'The Church In The Dark Ages' by Henri Daniel-Rops, Michael Lynch
Vivid portraits The book while dealing with these theological and ecclesiastical issues expertly interweaves them within the whole social political and economic milieu of the time providing us with vivid portraits of such figures as the Frankish King Clovis and Charlemagne crowned emperor by the Pope on Christmas Day 800.
156 - Apr 2002 - The Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, Hal G.P. Colebatch
It may be noted that there are hints of Christianity in Harry Potter: Christmas and Easter are celebrated at Hogwarts and at Christmastide the suits of armour are enchanted to sing Oh Come all Ye faithful a hymn or carol whose lyrics are quite uncompromising in their message.
157 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
In other words it is a whole plan for good living that God offers us - not just some rules about how to approach things on Sundays and at Christmas and Easter but a vision of how to function at school at work in the family at every moment of every day.
158 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Indian appeal, Kevin L. Fernandes
I take this opportunity of wishing you and all your dear ones the peace joy and salvation which Jesus came to give us at Christmas and every blessing in the New Year and the years to come.
159 - Feb 2002 - Reflection: NCC Mass of Thanksgiving: Archbishop Hart's homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
And now with the years end approaching Pope John Paul II has presented to the peoples of our region a new document Ecclesia in Oceania the best of all spiritual Christmas presents just what we need to refresh ourselves and to help us see the way forward for the New Year.
160 - Feb 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Mother Angelica suffers stroke on Christmas Eve Doctors pleased with her progress Doctors at the Birmingham Alabama hospital where Mother Angelica has been a patient since suffering a stroke on Christmas Eve said on 11 January that they were pleased with how the Foundress of EWTN was responding to treatment.
161 - Dec 2001 - New Titles from AD Books
The Glenstal Book of Prayer would make an excellent Christmas gift.
162 - Dec 2001 - Books: AD Books 'Top Ten'
Looking for a Christmas gift?
163 - Dec 2001 - Editorial: A Christmas reflection, Peter Westmore
In contemporary Australia while Christmas is associated with family gatherings gift-giving and holidays in the sun sand and surf its true meaning is a celebration of that moment in time when in the immensely attractive account of St Luke God in the person of Jesus Christ was born in poverty in a stable in Bethlehem because there was no room for Mary and Joseph in the local inn.
164 - Nov 2001 - Books: 'The Glenstal Book Of Prayer: A Benedictine Prayer Book, Mary-Jane Donnellan
It marks out the key feasts celebrated throughout the year - Christmas Lent Easter - all drawing the reader more deeply into the life of Christ including His passion death and resurrection.
165 - Nov 2001 - Pastoral letter: Taking up John Paul II's concerns about the Sacrament of Penance, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
In recent discussions with priests in this Archdiocese it has been reported that in most parishes the level of confessional practice among churchgoers is extremely low with most receiving the Sacrament at Christmas and Easter.
166 - Jul 2001 - Letters: Church land (letter), Charles Haber
Due to large crowds at Christmas and Easter we had to use the Community Hall which has been used for Sunday Mass for about 20 years.
167 - Jul 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner
Before Christmas 2000 more than 7000 families received a personal visit from our Neighbourhood team visitors.
168 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Annunciation (letter), Andrew Scholl
Without derogating from the importance of Christmas even though our society has well-nigh succeeded in trivialising and reducing the Feast of the Birth as it is called in Hebrew to a money-spinner to me the Incarnation is the moment when God gave Himself to us that we may have the possibility of eternal salvation.
169 - May 2001 - Poetry: The Ballad of Antichrist, Andrew Huntley
New century - a namelessness As heaven disappears - With Christmas snuffed in unbelief How start a course of years?
170 - May 2001 - Books: 'Prayers From The Heart: for the Feasts of the Year', Joanna Bogle, Mary-Jane Donnellan
Available from AD Books (03) 9326 5757) Prayers from the Heart evokes The sound of a great rush of wind - the coming of Pentecost as it invites the reader to be guided and strengthened by the power of the Holy Spirit to share in the waiting of Advent anticipate the arrival of Christmas and celebrate the Solemnities of All Souls and All Saints days.
171 - May 2001 - A Melbourne artist's labour of love, Michael Gilchrist
A retired art teacher Joseph Giansiracusa has worked tirelessly almost single-handedly to raise the profile of sacred art in Australia and to bring Christ back into Christmas through his Nativity displays.
172 - Mar 2001 - Books: The Pange Lingua Hymnal, compiled by Paul Newton, Fr Gregory Pritchard PP
He has assembled 174 hymns and Latin chants and put them under various headings: Christmas Lent Easter Saints Thanks and Praise etc.
173 - Feb 2001 - A former heroin addict's personal testimony
The friend who introduced me to this died on Christmas Eve 1987 when he and another nine people accidentally shot up ajax.
174 - Dec 2000 - Reflection: The coming of Christ on earth, Pope John Paul II
It can and ought become Christmas!
175 - Dec 2000 - Books: 200 Years of Faith: A Multimedia Tour of the Holy Land, Catherine Sheehan
It would make a first-class Christmas present for the whole family.
176 - Dec 2000 - C.S. Lewis: Christian apologist, Sarah Macdonald
As Christmas draws closer and people begin to think about presents those with young children in mind might consider C.
177 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The two priests are expected to be assigned elsewhere in the diocese after Christmas when several priests are due to retire.
178 - Mar 2000 - Reflection: Does Lent retain its spiritual meaning today?, Mary Kenny
The Christmas decorations go up before Advent; the Easter Eggs are on display before the beginning of Lent and the hot-cross buns once only eaten on Good Friday alone appear in Marks and Spencer in January.
179 - Mar 2000 - Books: 'Building Family Prayer and Traditions' by Steve Givens, Catherine Sheehan
The third chapter notes how important it is to link family prayer with parish life and family traditions with special feasts such as Christmas and Easter.
180 - Mar 2000 - How the Salesians are helping to rebuild East Timor, Br Michael Lynch
I went to East Timor for a field visit of the seven Salesian Houses for ten days just before Christmas.
181 - Sep 1999 - Assisi frescoes' restoration, Zenit News Service
The work should be completed for the inauguration of the Holy Year on Christmas Eve 1999.
182 - Aug 1999 - How a Canadian church was saved from destruction, Paul Likoudis
Just before Christmas 1998 the request for a second meeting was granted.
183 - Jul 1999 - General absolutions to continue in Adelaide, AD2000 Report
Quotes from the Code of Canon Law make clear that a great gathering of penitents (such as during Christmas and Easter) does not justify general absolution that a bishop must judge each individual situation on its merits according to grave necessity (such as danger of death) and that in any case a person whose grave sins are forgiven by a general absolution should as soon as possible .
184 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
All of us love Christmas.
185 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
A story is told of a Christmas concert attended by Dr Mannix at a leading college for girls.
186 - Apr 1999 - Adelaide Archdiocese on the brink over general absolutions, AD2000 Report
Christmas or Easter.
187 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The Bishop said that after Easter as part of general renovations to the Cathedrals interior due for completion by next Christmas a new marble structure would replace the present temporary altar table originally put in place in the 1970s.
188 - Feb 1999 - Brompton Oratory: London's liturgical oasis, Joanna Bogle
At Christmas a vast throng forms two hours before the church doors open for Midnight Mass.
189 - Dec 1998 - Reflection: The mystery of Christmas confronts a sceptical world, Fr Robert J. Batule
We call Christmas a mystery because the birth of Jesus the Christ is unlike any other birth.
190 - Aug 1996 - How to overcome the shortage of priests, Fr Kevin Dillon PP
Equally the use of Reconciliation has diminished to a mere trickle of people with the occasional boost at Christmas and Easter.
191 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
It is one thing to point to the typical edition of the new Mass of Paul VI in Latin (which one sees the Holy Father celebrate over TV at Christmas or Easter time); it is another to consider the numerous vernacular versions.
192 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons
Pope John said on the Councils opening day 11 October 1962 that the whole Council might be over before Christmas.
193 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist
In one of her many reports to Dublin Edel described a Christmas Eve midnight Mass: The church was packed with Africans - about 1500 were there I was told.
194 - Sep 1994 - Gregorian Chant makes a comeback, Simon Matthews
Another success followed: a recording of 10th-century chant from the Winchester Troper: Anglo-Saxon Christmas (HAVPCD 151).
195 - Apr 1992 - Problems of modern Biblical scholarship, B.A. Santamaria
She could have told her son the traditional nativity story only if she had managed to read long before they were written the inspiring unhistorical Christmas legends that first appeared in the gospels of Matthew and Luke fifty years after her son had died.
196 - Apr 1990 - Editorial: 'Everything is connected with everything else', B.A. Santamaria
December with its overtones of Christmas the birth of Christ the Holy Family the Shepherds the Ox and the Ass the Three Kings with their gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh epitomises the miracle of love and all of the softness of Christianity.
197 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
GRAY: In an article in the Christmas issue of AD2000 I tried to make the point that the Vaticans teaching on liberation theology seems to be a mistake as well.
198 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
Fewer supporters come to the home and away games although there are big crowds for the finals at Christmas and Easter.
199 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria
She could have told her son the traditional nativity story only if she had managed to read long before they were written the inspiring un-historical Christmas legends that first appeared in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke fifty years after her son had died.
200 - Dec 2013 - Editorial: A Christmas Wish, Peter Westmore
201 - Dec 2005 - Books: Christmas reading from AD Books
202 - Dec 2003 - Books: AD Books - A happy and a holy Christmas!
203 - Dec 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
204 - Dec 1999 - Reflection: Christmas: John Paul II's thoughts on the eve of the Jubilee, Pope John Paul II