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- Christmas 2008 25 Dec 2008
In trying to speak to the general population the challenge for priests, bishops and ministers of the Christian religion generally is to direct attention away from the holly and ... - Feast of the Immaculate Conception 8 Dec 2008
At the Cathedral presbytery in Sydney we have a cook, mother of two children, not a Catholic, but interested in Catholic life. Some years ago in December she came to me very disturbed. ... - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 16 Nov 2008
It is sometimes, perhaps even regularly, asserted that Catholics rarely hear a Sunday sermon these days on sexual morality.... - Dedication of the Lateran Basilica 9 Nov 2008
This is one of the strangest Catholic feasts to be celebrated on a Sunday and probably on any other day: the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica... - All Souls Day 2 Nov 2008
Each year on the first and second of November the Church reminds us of the reality of life after death with the feast of All Saints, those already in heaven and the feast of All Souls, the faithful departed.... - Neo-Catechumenal Gathering 21 Sep 2008
At first glance this parable of Our Lord is one of the most disconcerting of the parables, because it goes against our normal way of thinking... - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 31 Aug 2008
Chapter sixteen of Matthew’s gospel is important for Catholics because it recounts Jesus appointing Simon as the “rock-man”, Peter, on whom he would build the Church and early in the next chapter, six days afterwards according to... - Mass For Pregnant Women 24 Aug 2008
The regulations in the Catholic Church state that the readings used at a Sunday Mass are those set down by the Church and the same everywhere throughout the Catholic world... - University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle 4 Aug 2008
- 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 3 Aug 2008
Three out of four readings today take up the theme of food. The Psalm tells us that the hand of the Lord feeds us and answers all our needs, because He is kind and full of compassion. ... - 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Solomon and Wisdom 27 Jul 2008
The figure of Solomon, the son and successor of King David is a strong reminder that no possessions or attributes are necessarily permanent. ... - Homily Of Cardinal Pell 21 Jul 2008
I want to say one or two brief things about this Gospel passage for a moment.... - Homily For WYD08 Opening Mass 15 Jul 2008
We all know that Christ Our Lord is often described as the Good Shepherd of today’s responsorial psalm. We are told that he leads us near restful waters, revives our flagging spirits, enables us to rest peacefully. ... - Papacy - Feast of Sts Peter and Paul 29 Jun 2008
Today we celebrate the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, founders of the Church in the city of Rome. Their feast is regularly celebrated together for this reason and because they were the two greatest early missionaries... - 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time 22 Jun 2008
As something of a break from talking on the Sunday gospel, I thought I would use this sermon to speak about the passage from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, our second reading. .... - 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 15 Jun 2008
Whenever this text about the shortage of vocations from Matthew’s gospel returns for Sunday Mass in the three year cycle ... - Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8 Jun 2008
Hosea, the first of the twelve minor prophets, who wrote sometime before the fall of the northern kingdom of Samaria in 721 B.C., is a beautiful and poetic writer, who understood human nature well. ... - Trinity Sunday 18 May 2008
The historical debates over the activities of Moses, who led the Jews in the escape from Egypt and received the Ten Commandments are still quite fierce, ... - Australian Catholic Bishops?Conference Mass 7 May 2008
Both these texts are interesting, providing much food for thought or meditation, but both are confrontational, reminding us of the struggles surrounding truth in the world. ... - Sixth Sunday of Easter 27 Apr 2008
Many years ago I remember talking as a teenager with the mother of a school friend as she explained that it would be easier if we were not Catholics and were like the other people in the street. ... - Fifth Sunday of Easter 20 Apr 2008
In the first and last readings from the Acts and John’s gospel we are still in the post resurrection period; before the Ascension in the gospel account and afterwards in the Acts of the Apostles. ... - 150th Anniversary of the Foundation of the College of St. John the Evangelist within the University of Sydney 13 Apr 2008
The Gospel according to John presents us at this Mass with the image of the sheepfold, and the gate to the sheepfold is Jesus Christ himself. ... - Second Sunday of Easter 30 Mar 2008
Today is the Second Sunday of Easter, Mercy Sunday or the eighth day of Easter time and naturally the readings describe that period, high with excitement and enthusiasm, soon after the resurrection of Our Lord, when He had returned victoriously and unexpectedly to demonstrate his victory over death and sin. ... - Easter Sunday 23 Mar 2008
It is always something of a relief to move past Good Friday, dominated as it is by Jesus' suffering and death with only a few friends present, his victorious enemies away behind the scenes and the mass of the people ignorant of developments. ... - Good Friday 21 Mar 2008
Good Friday is not the end of Jesus' story and not even the end of his time on earth, because the Resurrection was an event in history, even though the Risen Lord was no longer constrained by space and time as we are.... - World Youth Day Youth Leaders Mass - Palm Sunday 16 Mar 2008
- Fifth Sunday of Lent 9 Mar 2008
As we approach closer to Holy Week with its commemoration of the suffering, death and resurrection of Our Lord, ... - Fourth Sunday of Lent 2 Mar 2008
On a number of occasions over the years I have remarked that it can be difficult to preach ... - World Youth Day Mass 23 Feb 2008
The readings tonight are about water, about life giving water... - Centenary Of The Completion Of Auckland Cathedral On 23rd February, 1908 23 Feb 2008
First of all I should begin by congratulating the Bishop, the Dean, committee and architect on the renovation of this Cathedral of St. Patrick and St. Joseph... - Second Sunday of Lent 17 Feb 2008
We are celebrating the Second Sunday of Lent, barely twelve days into this penitential season of preparation for the feast of Easter, ... - Mass at La Perouse to celebrate the 220th Anniversary of the death of Father Louis Receveur 17 Feb 2008
We gather for this anniversary Mass in the season of Lent preparing for Easter... - Catechist Sunday - 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 3 Feb 2008
This morning we have heard again Jesus’ beatitudes, the centre of his moral teaching. ..
