St Anthony and St Luke's Parish

05/09/2026

https://brisbanecatholic.org.au/gods-people/twenty-third-sunday-in-ordinary-time-2026/

Two-Minute Homily by Fr Regimon Gervasis for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026.

04/09/2026

Dear Parish friends, follow the link https://stanthonyandstluke.org.au/newsletter-6th-september-2026/ to access our newsletter for 6th September.

29/08/2026

30 August 2026 - Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
"Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do." Matthew 16:23

Reflect today on Peter's and Jesus' words: "God forbid, Lord!" and "Get behind me, Satan!" In this exchange, Jesus is also speaking to each of us, saying, "Never run from the Cross!" We must never flee from a selfless and sacrificial embrace of suffering, even when that suffering is unjust. God can and will transform all freely embraced suffering into a means of His eternal glory and our sanctification. With our Lord, reject the evil one's false empathy. Reject the lie that suffering is meaningless. Choose instead to lay down your life in love with Christ, and in doing so, you will rise with Him, victorious over every sin and diabolical lie, overcoming even the sufferings of this life through your free and faithful embrace.

28/08/2026

Dear Parish friends, follow the link https://stanthonyandstluke.org.au/newsletter-30th-august-2026/ to access our newsletter for 30th August 2026

22/08/2026

23 August 2026 - Twenty- First Week in Ordinary Time - Year A
Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter said in reply, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." - Matthew 16:13-16
Reflect today on the significance of the papacy. Even now, in the successor of Saint Peter, the words of Simon continue to echo throughout the world: "You are
the Christ, the Son of the living God." This is the pope's first and most important duty - to bear witness to Christ, the Son of God. Despite the personal weaknesses of some popes and the saintliness of others, it is Jesus who established Peter and his successors as the visible foundation of the Church. Pray for the Holy Father, and trust in the timeless witness of every pope since that first moment in Caesarea Philippi- a witness upheld not by human strength, but by Christ's own promise. To profess faith in the papacy is to profess faith in the One who instituted it and endowed it with His divine authority.

21/08/2026

Dear Parish friends, follow the link https://stanthonyandstluke.org.au/newsletter-23rd-august-2026/ to access our Parish newsletter for 23rd August 2026

15/08/2026

16 August 2026 - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time- Year A
"It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs." She said, "Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their Masters." Then Jesus said to her in reply, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." Matthew 15:26-28
Reflect today on the ways God may be inviting you to a deeper faith through silence, delay, or trial. Could He be calling you, like this woman, to heroic humility and steadfast trust? Embrace those moments of divine testing, for they are often the very means by which His greatest works of grace are accomplished- in you and through you.

14/08/2026

Dear friends, follow the link https://stanthonyandstluke.org.au/newsletter-16th-august-2026/ to see our newsletter for 16th August 2026.

11/08/2026

Saturday is a Holy Day of Obligation here in Australia. Come and join us for the Solemnity of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 9am at St Mary Mackillop, Birkdale.

11/08/2026

Last minute reminder - Our RCIA information session is on this Thurs evening 7pm at the St Mary Mackillop Parish Centre. If you would like to come along, we would love to have you there. Please RSVP the Parish office 07 3820 0100. See you there!