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- Fourth Sunday of Advent 23 Dec 2007
We are now almost on the eve of Christmas, but there is still time to perform at least some of the tasks we should have performed before Christmas e.g. go to confession, the sacrament of reconciliation, ...
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- 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 11 Nov 2007
Even within the Catholic Church in Australia today there is considerable confusion and ignorance on religious questions. ...
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- 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time 28 Oct 2007
The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector is one of the Lord’s best known parables, ranking with the parable of the prodigal son. ...
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- Mission Sunday 21 Oct 2007
Today is Mission Sunday, when we remember the obligation we have as members of Christ’s Church to evangelise, to be missionary. ...
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- Marriage Sunday 14 Oct 2007
Today we celebrate Marriage Sunday and 35 couples, especially those whose marriages were blessed in the Cathedral and those celebrating important anniversaries are with us, ...
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- 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7 Oct 2007
This is a strange, but rich gospel, which contains four unrelated sayings of Our Lord, touching on different aspects of discipleship, set in the context of His journey to Jerusalem. ...
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- National Police Remembrance Day 28 Sep 2007
White cars with blue-and-white chequered striping roam the streets and highways of Sydney and beyond every minute of every day and every night. ...
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- Holy Spirit Church, Carnes Hill 15 Jul 2007
Most of us take it for granted that Christian Churches are spread through our suburbs and country towns, a regular and expected part of the landscape. ...
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- 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 17 Jun 2007
The excerpt from St. Paul’s letter to the Christians in Galatia about what makes a person righteous, or justified, is sandwiched between two stories of forgiveness. ...
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- Trinity Sunday 3 Jun 2007
Every Sunday is the Lord's Day or God's feast day, but that is true in a special way of Trinity Sunday. ...
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- Pentecost Sunday 27 May 2007
All Christians call today Pentecost Sunday, fifty days after Easter, when we celebrate God’s presence among us, known as the Holy Spirit. ...
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- Feast of the Ascension of the Lord 20 May 2007
It is one of the oddities of contemporary Catholic life that we are celebrating Ascension Thursday on the seventh Sunday of Easter; or to be more precise we are celebrating the feast of the Ascension today. ...
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- Sixth Sunday of Easter 13 May 2007
In this Easter season which is now approaching its conclusion with the feast of the Ascension and Pentecost, we celebrate not only the fact that Christ has risen but also that he has redeemed and saved us. ...
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- Fourth Sunday of Easter 29 Apr 2007
Over the years in different countries I have been privileged to meet great men and women who have suffered much for their faith in Christ and in the Catholic Church. ...
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- Third Sunday of Easter 22 Apr 2007
In these weeks after Easter and before Pentecost we reflect on the meaning of the passion and resurrection of Christ; on the consequences in the history of salvation for people, the world and the universe which followed from Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection. ...
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- Second Sunday of Easter 15 Apr 2007
Today in an increasing number of churches throughout the world, the Second Sunday of Easter is known as Mercy Sunday, when we remember in particular how the fruits of Christ’s victory at Easter are dispensed to the world. ...
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- Easter Sunday 8 Apr 2007
The United States of America has an immense cultural as well as economic influence everywhere, especially in the English-speaking world, for good and for ill. ...
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- Good Friday 6 Apr 2007
Last night on ABC Radio with Richard Glover, Archbishop Jensen and myself retold the story of the passion and resurrection. ...
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- Chrism Mass 5 Apr 2007
Today is Holy Thursday, the day before we commemorate Jesus’ death on a cross at Jerusalem nearly 2000 years ago. ...
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- Palm Sunday 1 Apr 2007
Today we begin Holy Week, those seven days of preparation for the Resurrection, during which we also remember the Last Supper (when we celebrate the ministerial priesthood), Christ's death and his time in the tomb before the Resurrection. ...
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- Fifth Sunday of Lent 25 Mar 2007
The response to the psalm today, which we have just sung, is that "the Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy". ...
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- Third Sunday of Lent 11 Mar 2007
Let me begin by thanking the Rector for the invitation to celebrate this community Mass and preside at the institution of acolytes, those who assist officially at sacred worship. ...
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- First Sunday of Lent 25 Feb 2007
Today is the First Sunday of Lent, when we begin our period of preparation for the most important Christian feasts at Easter and in this season we should be about our major spring cleaning (although it is autumn), where we have the annual overhaul not just of our morals but also of our faith. ...
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- Rookwood Crematorium Opening 17 Feb 2007
The Lord Jesus spoke of his own body as a "sanctuary", one which after his death was to be raised up again after three days. ...
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- 25th Anniversary Tangara School 11 Feb 2007
Last week I watched an ABC television programme on El Nino, the phenomenon in the Pacific where the ocean waters' temperature rises slightly around Christmas time bringing heavy rain to Peru and the West coast of the Americas and drought like conditions to Australia and beyond. ...
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- Catechist Sunday 4 Feb 2007
On last Friday we celebrated the 150th Anniversary of the Good Samaritan Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict, founded by the first Archbishop of Sydney, the Benedictine John Bede Polding. ...
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- Red Mass 2007 29 Jan 2007
By coincidence as I was preparing this sermon I read a speech Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea in Syria probably delivered in July 336, in the new city of Constantinople, ...
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