In the heart of Nazareth, the Holy Family were bound in the sanctified toil, prayer and unity of each playing their critical role in salvation history, mysteriously cradled in the humble wonder and beauty of the family home. It was the Christ, the Contemplative and the Craftsman, hidden and sanctified, bound and beloved in what I’m seeking to honour in Nazareth Anew.

Nazareth Anew, celebrates the pursuit of a contemplative vision and creative endeavour, ever and always united to God’s Holy Church, to scripture, tradition and to the wonder of God at work in our lives. In our humble disciplines, our prayer, and our creative endeavour, we unite ourselves in to God’s vision for our lives, bound and inseparable from our vocations and family life.

I write this as a Catholic; a secular Discalced Carmelite seeking the face of God in everyday life. I am a husband to one wife, and a father to eleven children, whom I adore. We fled the madness of the modern urban realm to lay down roots in a growing Catholic community in Jindera, New South Wales, where many have come to seek peace, honest, earnest community, good liturgy and a fine Catholic education that honours the Magisterium and all of Holy Mother Church’s teachings.

Together, with my beloved wife, we’ve built a life beyond the madness, and the busyness, and the noise, the modern malaise of consumerism, distraction and dissipation. On our humble five acres, we lay close to God’s creation and find his hand at work in all things, in all ways. This is Nazareth Anew, and I thank you for joining us.

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