A unique circumstance has been a reality check on the real cost of discipleship for holiness in a diocesan priestly vocation in the year of pandemic, 2020. - First Year Seminarian Dominic Lawes

In this extended reflection, sixth year seminarian Samuel Pearson interviews staff and students from the seminary in lockdown here and in Rome, about ‘the joys and the hopes, the grief’s and the anxieties’ during this time of pandemic.

Reflections by Jackson Saunders - “As Australians we have shown in recent months that we can respond to the challenges of life with great resilience. This we often refer to as the ‘Aussie Spirit.’“

As fear grips our country, let us choose love during this time when we cannot physically wrap our arms around each other, let us yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbour. Amen.

A homily by Fr Denis Stanley - “We do not celebrate a folk hero, but a saint – and so like all the saints he is a fellow Christian whose example inspired and encourages us today and whose prayers to God surround us here and now.”

A homily by Fr Cameron Forbes - Keep Calm and carry on. We each need to be present to the sacrament of the present moment, to our relationship with God during every moment of the day

A homily by Fr Ed Moloney - “Abraham submitted himself in faith to God, may we in turn entrust ourselves in faith to Jesus on our journey, wherever that might lead us as our future unfolds. “

A reflection by Rev Adi Indra - Is Jesus, having known our sinfulness hence imperfection, asking us for the impossible?

A homily by Rev Confidence Masvosva - “Forgiveness comes when we put in the effort to change; when we get up from the place where have fallen.”

A homily by Rev Jithin Anto - The acts of self denial that we do, during this period of Lent, point towards the interior self-denial by which we offer our whole self to Christ and his mission in the world. Let that be what we strive for in this season of lent, to have the heart, mind and will of Christ to find true life and to live life the way he wants us to live.