Category Archives: John Dupuche

Opening Address SS Peter and Paul’s, East Doncaster, 29 January, 1989 An autobiography: external details My name if Fr John Dupuche. I have been appointed as your new parish priest, in succession to Fr Hally. It is appropriate I think, … Continue reading →

Covenant  of my life                  Notre Dame Abbey, Tarrawarra, February 1973 That day, on the paddock outside the old cottage at Tarrawarra, in the sun, as the wind blew light and cool in … Continue reading →

A turning point,  an illumination, 10 August, 1969,   Tübingen, Germany. On the anniversary of  my Confirmation at St Joseph’s Elsternwick Hear what the Lord has done for me, how he has shown me his face. For, one night, impelled by … Continue reading →

METAMORPHOSES   1966                                         Que m’importe les feuillets et les bouquins qui m’entourent, et ces notes, fruits de mes yeux brulés? Je fabrique les pétales qu’on lancera sur ma tombe pour m’enfouir. Vanité des livres ! Seul l’homme est la … Continue reading →

Good and evil, grace and sin: commentary on select verses from Genesis 1-11 Year 1, Week 5, Monday                                                     Glenroy 1977 “God said: ‘Let there be light’ and there was light.”   Genesis 1:3 God does not engage in some complex process … Continue reading →

Letter to the Hebrews, Commentary on some verses Glenroy 1977 Year 1, Week 1, Tuesday                                                  “You have put him in command of everything.”       Hebrews 2.5-9 For Christ is coming and will take possession of all things, being master even … Continue reading →

Dear Friends This circular letter is my way of keeping in touch with friends whom I see all too rarely. It will help us keep in contact – even if just electronically. I hope that you will see many good … Continue reading →

  The subdued tones of an evening air after a summer’s rain – gold-yellow green-amber – shed with their water-drops a colour tinged and mellow. So too a soul after the summer’s heat and the unsuspected rain – two conflicting … Continue reading →

Pilgrimages from Nazareth Parish in Melbourne to Nazareth and Jerusalem in Israel        2009-2013 ‘Do not forget us’. This is the cry from the heart of Nariman when she came to visit us in May this year. The … Continue reading →

Reine Augustine Dupuche (née Hottekiet) The details concerning Apollinaire Hottekiet (Born 3 January 1874, dec. Hénin-Liétard, 11-12-1951) are fully given in Jean-Robert Hottekiet’s research on the Hottekiet-Hubert families and need not be repeated. However, mention must be made of the … Continue reading →

At my Grandparents’ grave in the cemetery of Blanc Seau, Tourcoing, France, November, 2006 Why those tears, those bitter tears, those sobs that poured out as I stood at my grandparents grave. Was it for the separation of death, that … Continue reading →

I understood, therefore, why I did weight-lifting and understood the important I attached to the body. At the moment of lifting, there is a sort of explosion. The lifter takes hold of the bar and identifies with the weight. Without … Continue reading →

“Silence is not the absence of sound but its fullness. It not a question of being ‘dumb’, with nothing to say. Rather, it comes from sense that all has been said. “Out of silence God said but one word”. God … Continue reading →

Why did Jesus choose Judas as a close companion? Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Thursday of Holy Week, 24 March 2016. This evening’s Mass is full of light and dark, beauty and horror. Jesus gets up from table and begins … Continue reading →

  Dilatato Corde Vol. V, no.1. Jan-June. Clooney, Francis X.  His Hiding Place is Darkness, a Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2014. viii, 187 pp. Australian eJournal of Theology 21.2 (August, 2014) Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow. ‘Is … Continue reading →