Australian Women Preach

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 21: 33-43 Carey Anne Moylan grew up in Sydney and was educated by the Mercy Sisters at Spiritus Sanctus, North Ryde and Monte Sant Angelo in North Sydney. She studied at Sydney University obtaining a Bachelor of Arts, and a Diploma and later, a Master of Education. She taught for the NSW state education department in English, HSIE and Special Education for ma...

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 21: 28-32 Jo Curran writes: I am a Primary School teacher with a passion for nurturing young minds. With a career spanning over three decades, I embarked on my teaching journey in 1989 in Brisbane Catholic Education schools, particularly in lower primary. A guiding principle of mine is to bring a relatable, tangible, every day God to the lives of the...

Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Matthew 20: 1-16a Honorary Associate Professor Eleanor Flynn is a medical graduate who retired in 2019 from the University of Melbourne Medical School where she was involved in student selection and developing and implementing curricula for palliative care, clinical communications and professional behaviour. Until 2017 she also worked as a Palliative Care spe...

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 18:21-35  Alice is the coordinator of Caritas Catholic Earthcare, an organisation committed to addressing environmental issues through Catholic social teaching. She holds a Master's degree in theology with a focus in eco-theology, reflecting her passion for the intersection between faith and care for the planet. In 2018, after successfully transitioning t...

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 18:15-20 After a long career in secondary and disability education in QLD and NSW, Janet now lives in retirement in Brisbane. She has post graduate degrees in Education and Theology, has been a long-time member of WATAC and meditator with the WCCM since 2008. Aquinas Academy in Sydney was another valued alma mater for many years. One major turning point in he...

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 16:21-27 Sally is the Integral Ecology Animator and Mission/Ministry Resource Coordinator for the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea. As part of her role she oversees the Institute’s commitment to the Laudato Si’ Goals, especially eco-spirituality and hands-on climate and biodiversity projects in rural communities. Her current...

21st Sunday of Ordinary Time - Matthew 16:13-20 - An Unshakeable Faith in Christ – Son of the Living God Toni Janke is a Wuthathi, Yadighana and Meriam woman whose family originally come from Cape York and the Torres Strait in north Queensland. Toni currently lives in Meanjin (Brisbane) Queensland where she runs her own consultancy and coaching business. She works with government, corporate commun...

The Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Matthew 15:21-28 Dr Moira Byrne Garton grew up in rural South Australia. She moved to Adelaide after high school and joined a Catholic youth group where she met Matthew, who she later married. In 2001, they moved to Canberra with their two very small children. Two more were welcomed in Canberra so they now have four young adult children. In 2012 she complete...

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time -Matthew 14:22-33 This week we have the privilege of listening deeply to First Nations woman Sherry Balcombe who, using the Gospel as a springboard, shares her hopes for this country we now call Australia, her wisdom around the upcoming referendum, and her work towards creating the first Aboriginal Rite of the Catholic Church written by First Nations people. Sherry is...

The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord - Matthew 17:1-9 Dr Angela McCarthy is an adjunct senior lecturer in theology at The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle campus. Her first degree from Sydney University included work in Biblical Studies and Fine Arts. After time spent rearing a family, Angela resumed secondary teaching and further studies in theology and education in 1993 at N...

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 13: 44-52 Catherine Mead rsj (EdD, M.Ed., B.Ed.) is an educator with forty years of ministry in Catholic education across South Australia and the Northern Territory in a variety of roles including that of Teacher, Principal. Board member /Director. Through these roles Catherine has given counsel, mentored, and contributed to nurturing leadership, faith...

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 13: 24-30 Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of gendered violence and its impacts on women. This material may be distressing for some people. 1800RESPECT is available for free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to support people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence. Call 1800 737 732 or reach out via https://www.1800respect.org.au/ ...

Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Matthew 13:1-23 - Seeds of Transformation- Cultivating Hearts for Our Common Home Alice is a passionate educator, leader and innovator. She has a passion for ecological education, having worked and studied in this field for over 15 years. Alice has held various system and school leadership positions within Catholic Education and has worked at the university leve...

Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Matthew 11: 25-30 Wendy Goonan is a wife, a mother and a grandmother, and has been an engineer, a bushland manager, and research analyst. Before receiving the call to be a Member of the Fifth Plenary Council in Australia, Wendy also embarked on postgraduate studies in theology alongside seminarians in Sydney, taking great interest in Biblical, liturgical and ec...

Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Matthew Matt. 10: 37-42 - One with Christ Frances Maguire RSJ, has been a Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart for 60 years. She was born in Kalgoorlie and has lived much of her life in country places in WA, including the East Kimberley where she managed a Spirituality Centre for the Broome Diocese. She has worked in Parishes, formation within her Congregati...

Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Matthew 10: 26-33 - What you hear in the dark…. Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of gendered violence and its impacts on women. This material may be distressing for some people. 1800RESPECT is available for free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to support people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence. Call 1800 737 732 or reach out via http...

Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time - Matthew 9:36 – 10:8 Bec Lindsay lives on Gadigal and Bidjigal land in Sydney's South East with her husband and two children. She is a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church in Australia and worships at Hope Uniting Church in Maroubra. Bec is currently completing a PhD through Flinders University. Her research explores decolonial biblical interpretation in...

Corpus Christi - John 6: 51-58 Dr Alexandra Banks PhD works as an artist, theologian, writer and researcher who engages theologically with the arts and trauma theory to uncover the complex landscape of embodied memory. Alexandra’s key area of interest is the historical suppression and coercive appropriation of biblical women’s bodies and voices, and the doctrinal and practical implications of this...

The Most Holy Trinity - John 3:16-18 Dr Teresa Brown is a Melbourne-based theologian, who teaches in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. She has a PhD in Theology, a Master of Religious Education and a Master of Theological Studies. In her PhD, she explored the relationship between trinitarian faith and Christian life through the lens of a theology of interrup...

Elissa writes: I'm a theologian specialising in synodality in the Catholic Church. I am interested in building a mature, responsible and loving Church.  I live in Australia and my writing has a focus on developing foundations for Catholic ecclesiology in a new era of synodality. I explore how such foundations may support the praxis and good governance of synodality. I am honoured to manage a P...

The Ascension of the Lord - Matthew  28:16-20 The Reverend Danni Clark is a priest in the Anglican Church, currently posted to the East Redland Parish in South East Queensland. She is married to David and together they parent four feisty daughters, and are servants to a menagerie of two, three and four legged creatures. After a long time of trying to run away from her calling, a ‘Samuel moment’ tu...

Sixth Sunday of Easter - John 14:15-21 Sue Martin grew up playing in nature, living beside Devlin’s Creek in Northern Sydney, with parents deeply committed to family and faith, especially a faith that does justice. Sue was educated by the Good Samaritan Sisters at Pennant Hills where she started to imagine herself as an eco-warrior. Sue studied agricultural science at Sydney University, becoming a...

Fifth Sunday of Easter - John 14:1-12 Dr Tania Watson considers herself to be very blessed to have many opportunities to exercise pastoral ministry and leadership.  Tania is a keen observer of intersections between leadership, Australian culture and the Gospel mission of Jesus.  The deep longing of her heart is to see the Australian Church, know and express fullness and freedom that is ours in the...

Fourth Sunday of Easter - John 10:1-10 - Abundant Life Now Rev. Radhika Sukumar-White (she/her) has been a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church in Australia since 2016. She is a 2nd-Generation Sri Lankan Tamil Australian, and grew up in Canberra before moving to Sydney to study Physiotherapy, Music and then Theology. Radhika is passionate about leading dynamic and sacred worship, preaching a...

Third Sunday of Easter - Luke 24: 13-35 CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains references to suicide ideation which may distress some listeners. If this raises any issues for you please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.  Dr Debra J Phillips is an Education lecturer at Australian Catholic University. Her doctorate awarded in 2020, an interdisciplinary, autoethnographic analysis of suicidality, provided...