May I warmly welcome you to my website. It is a simple website offered
in the hope that it might nourish the spiritual and religious life of
anyone who cares to visit it. The website opens with some words of
Scripture (such as, say, "Dominus
Jesus Christus" meaning "Jesus Christ is Lord", from the Latin Vulgate.)
I am a priest of the diocese of Parramatta, (Sydney) Australia.
I was born and raised in Sydney and was
ordained in
June of 1971. I am the eldest of seven children, and my mother still
lives in Lane Cove (Sydney) where we grew up. All my priestly life I
have engaged in parish work,
having served in various parishes in Sydney and
elsewhere, including four and a half years of missionary work in South
America. I
have studied in various universities and institutes, with my
degrees being in philosophy, theology, religious education and the
humanities. My
Ph.D. was on Cardinal Newman's notion of the conscience. Most
people in the parish
address me as "Father Ted" - no relation to the Irish television
character.
You will notice that there are seven links on the home page (apart from
this link). To begin with, I offer some Thoughts
for Today as well as an archive of Previous Daily Thoughts
going back over the past few years. These are the first two links on
the Home Page. The Thought
for Today link consists of a video of my own reflections on the
Gospel of the day (including the written text below it), a brief life
of the saint of the day, a spiritual reflection from one
of St
Josemaria
Escriva's works,
and
a paragraph from Pope Benedict's second Encyclical, Spe Salvi (which
I serialize). I also include a link to the Scripture
readings of the day and the Pope's intention for the month.