"The parables of Jesus seek to draw one into the Kingdom, and they challenge us to act and to live from the gift which is experienced therein. But we do not want parables. We want precepts and we want programs. We want good precepts and we want sensible programs. We are frightened by the lonely silences within the parables." [John Dominic Crossan, In Parables - The Challenge of the Historical Jesus, Harper and Row, 1973,82]

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Fr John Thornhill SM RIP

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Fr John Thornhill SM died on Sunday evening 28 July. John was professed as a Marist in 1949 and ordained a priest in 1955. He made an outstanding contribution as a theologian both in Australia – where he was involved for many years with the Marist Seminary at Toongabbie, the Catholic Theological Union at Hunter’s Hill and the Aquinas Academy

here in the Parish – and internationally, serving for a number of years on the International Theological Commission in Rome and the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission. May he rest in peace.
Fr Thornhill’s funeral will be at Holy Name of Mary Church, Villa Maria, Mary St Hunters Hill, 9:00am Friday 2 August.
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