Advent and Lent Annual Webinar Series

30/09/2025
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You are invited to a series of Advent and Lent webinars hosted by Garratt Publishing and Biblical scholars from Yarra Theological Union, a College of the University of Divinity (Melbourne). Each is designed to enrich your own faith journey.

Every week, this group of accomplished guides work together to explore the readings of the Liturgical Season and to stir your soul.

Speaking to us from their own area of expertise will be:

  • Prof Mary Coloe PBVM
  • Dr Mary Reaburn NDS
  • Dr Chris Monaghan

This is the perfect opportunity to enrich your faith journey.

Accreditation is available for eligible teachers seeking professional development hours. Further details will be available closer to the events.

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SPEAKERS

Prof Mary Coloe PBVM
Mary teaches in the field of New Testament studies, with a particular focus on the Gospel of John. She has been teaching at the Australian Catholic University, and has also taught at Boston College, the Jesuit School of Theology Berkeley, and at the Ecce Homo Biblical Institute Jerusalem. She is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and other national and international biblical associations. She was recently appointed by the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity to participate in a 5 year Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Disciples of Christ.

Dr Mary Reaburn NDS
Mary teaches Wisdom Literature and Psalms. She is a Sister of Our Lady of Sion and has a deep respect for the literature we call the Old Testament or First Testament and for Jewish and Christian interpretation of these texts. She has also taught at Holy Trinity Theological College in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mary is member of the Council of the Australian Bishops’ Conference for Christian Unity and Inter-religious Dialogue and on the Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission of the Melbourne Archdiocese. She is particularly involved in Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Catholic relations.

Dr Chris  Monaghan CP
Chris is a Passionist who studied at YTU and then at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and Jerusalem. Since 1987 he has been lecturing at YTU in both Old and New Testament. The major focus of his teaching throughout these years has been Matthew, Luke-Acts and the letters of Paul.