daughter, sister, wife, mother, priest, child of God. Dean of Newcastle, @newycathedral Australia. Anglican. Opinions expressed are mine.
Newcastle, New South Wales
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Katherine Bowyer retweeted
#HunterLine Trains are not running between Maitland and Newcastle Intg due to flooding on the tracks at Sandgate.
Replacement buses are being arranged but none are available right now. Please delay your travel if possible or consider using other transport.
Updates to follow.
Katherine Bowyer retweeted
Frederick Lewis Donaldson, Anglican Priest & Christian Socialist, proposed the seven social sins:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Religion without sacrifice
Politics without principle
Katherine Bowyer retweeted
Newcastle Anglicans remember Pope Francis
Bishop Peter Stuart along with the Assistant Bishops Charlie Murry and Sonia Roulston have paused in prayer this evening to remember Pope Francis and the Catholic faithful in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle and Broken Bay.
Happy Easter from #catsofthecathedral #newycathedral
Easter cats 🐰🩷
The bois are contemplating whether those extra treats were really worth it 😂
ALT Two blue point Siamese cats sitting on a red lounge chair. They are wearing grey bunny costumes. The one on the left appears highly unimpressed and is likely plotting escape. The one on the right seems mildly stunned that they were tricked into a costume again
ALT Resigned to their fate, two Siamese cats sitting on a red lounge chair whilst wearing grey bunny costumes
ALT Two blue point Siamese cats sitting on a red lounge chair. They both appear unimpressed and are wearing grey bunny costumes
ALT Two Siamese cats attempting to flee the red lounge chair on which they have been seated for a photoshoot in their grey bunny costumes
Katherine Bowyer retweeted
This is deeply troubling. I too pray for the Diocese and all concerned.
Katherine Bowyer retweeted
24 March 1879: death of the Rt Revd William Tyrrell, aged 72. First Bishop of Newcastle 1847-1879. Local saint and hero! #anglican #146years Credit for attached portrait @tyroleanlass; my photos: his grave, and the plaque @SydneyCathedral.
Katherine Bowyer retweeted
A million dollars every hour or every day - that's how much the people of NSW are losing...
When will Premier @ChrisMinns's Government do something substantial to change this? 1/3
WANT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT TRANSPHOBIC AND RACIST ADVERTISING? You can make a complaint to the ACCC, to the Australian Electoral Commission. You can also call the paper directly and complain: remember it's not the fault of the person who answers the phone :-) #racism #transphobia
Hey @smh, I am disgusted and appalled by the #racist ad on your front page today. #racism has no place in this country, nor on your masthead. When will we see an apology? #trumpetofhate
PRE-LENT VACAY WITH THE BOWYERS: Our week away barely started, and already, Ladybird book GOLD. Is this a sign of things to come? #ladybirdbooks
Katherine Bowyer retweeted
It has been a long month. Thinking on everything, I keep coming back to this passage. How do we respond in this time of unrest, fear, and feelings of hopelessness?
Jesus’ vision of a new community….
“Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches.” Luke 13:18-19
Jesus’ parables are one of the ways Jesus trains his disciples. The parables, like the sermon on the mount, have always been crucial for the church to imagine the kind of community it is called to be. We discover again and again that Jesus’ parables significance points to everyday life. The parables are meant to be lived.
The original audience may have been perplexed by this story. They would have known that no-one would intentionally plant a mustard shrub. In fact, the Jewish Mishnah forbade the growing of mustard seeds in the garden because they were ‘useless annoying weeds’. In the Hebrew Scriptures the “birds of the air” can be a reference to Gentiles/Non-Jews, the foreigner. This parable suggests that the kingdom of heaven is available to everyone. Even those who may be considered outsiders or not “Worthy”. Jesus is calling us to see the significance in the insignificant. The parables of the kingdom of heaven make clear that the kingdom of heaven is not “up there”. Through the parables Jesus is teaching us to “be for the world the material reality of the kingdom of heaven brought down to earth.” As Jesus is himself the parable of the father so the church is meant to be the parable of Christ. A people in space and time welcoming the outcast, the foreigner, and the stranger. These kind of communities will look like unwanted weeds to the world, or even to other christians. However, this may be exactly the church Jesus is asking us to embody.
Keep going. Keep showing up to the places where you feel loved.
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