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03 Dec 2006

What God will we serve at Christmas? For this first Sunday of Advent 2006 – the beginning of our preparation for Christmas – our resident "Holy Irritant", Tony Robertson, looks forward to ask what God will we serve when Christmas arrives. "As we wait in hope for the coming of God's Reign of Peace, we are called to challenge the values of our consumer culture by being a sign of the true God with Us, the God we know through the person and message of Jesus." [more]

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24 Jul 2006

Celebrating Christina the Astonishing. Patron of Holy Irritants Today we are pleased to introduce you to another of our commentators and stirrers of discussion. Tony Robertson is the self-styled Holy Irritant of the Catholic Church in Australia and he has his own blogsite, The Holy Irritant, to prove it. Tony is a truly beautiful man with an unbounded sense of humour which belies a serious commitment to his faith and the pursuit of social justice. Today is the feast day of one of his patron saints: Christina the Astonishing, Virgin (1150 - 1224). (Tony suggests that when her name is read aloud you should be careful to pronounce the "comma"!) [more]