In Diebus Illis

 This prayer was approved for publication by the Bishop of Maitland & Newcastle. AMDG.

  The Most Reverend John Bede Polding OSB 1794-1877 Vicar Apostolic of New Holland 1835 -1841 Archbishop of Sydney 1841 - 1877 Born in Liver...

The Holy Season of Advent, which commences this day, has been instituted to dispose the faithful to celebrate with proper sentiments the fea...

Over a period of years, we hope to publish on this blog extracts from Archbishop Polding's Pastoral Letters, as published in  The Eye o...

The newly-consecrated Bishop Polding OSB in 1834. Image : State Library of NSW. Thanks to the zeal of a previous generation of Church h...

A 20th century Australian hymn to Our Lady, Help of Christians Statue of Our Lady Help of Christians Saint Mary's Cathedral Syd...

The Latin words In diebus illis are translated as "in those days" and we have chosen them as a title for this blog which presents...

  A new digital likeness by the Saint Bede Studio of our two Benedictine pioneering Bishops, John Bede Polding and Charles Henry Davis. It ...

Remember man that dust thou art and into dust thou shalt return ... In all thy works remember thy last end,· and thou shalt never sin ... Wi...