Bogosity

Before 1992, feminism was this thing in the sixties where all women took to the streets and burned their bras to protest how men had all the good jobs. However in the summer of ‘69 it was all forgotten at one of those car keys parties.

The movement was resurrected in 1992 by my high [...]

At first I was pretty happy when I made the decision to drop out of the formation program (the process to become a priest). The decision came suddenly and easily and I knew it was the obvious choice to make. I still think it was the right decision.

It’s taken a month for the [...]

My mother in law informed me a few weeks back that I must have rocks in my head to be entering the priesthood. Well the message must have sunk in sometime after that because I’ve since made the decision not to go ahead with the formation program next year. My decision was based [...]

Semester has finished, I don’t have any formal formation or discernment activities to do and most other commitments are winding down as we roar downstream towards the Apocalypse / Christmas.

The start of advent passed with me singing a very dodgy version of the psalm at St Phil’s on Sunday. Generally things have been [...]

I’ve managed to get a semblance of rhythm together for a fairly minimalist office of prayer. I’m using the SSF office book still but pretty much just reading the opening and ending prayers as well as the readings (using the cycle in the SSF book rather than the lectionary because I don’t want to [...]

The Archbishop of Brisbane
The Most Reverend Dr Phillip Aspinall

8 September 2006

Mr Matthew Smith
(My Address)

Dear Matthew,

Thank you for attending the Vocational Discernment weekend recently and for Stephanie’s involvement as well.

I am pleased to inform you that my Examining Chaplains have affirmed your sense of call to the office of priest, working in a stipendiary capacity, and [...]

What’s a Discernment Conference? Well it’s for wannabe priests like me to be interviewed and assessed to help the diocese (i.e. the archbishop) decide whether to spend any time, effort and/or money educating me to be a priest.

The conference happens each year in the Brisbane diocese. All of the discernees gather and try [...]