- Christmas 2009 25 Dec 2009
Christmas brackets together the two dimensions of creation; the everyday world which surrounds us and the unseen world of the spiritual, of persons and forces far beyond the surface of things. It is not an everyday event when God visits his people, comes and stays for a short lifetime. ...
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- Third Sunday of Advent 13 Dec 2009
These readings for the third Sunday of Advent have the dual message of Advent loud and clear. ...
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- Christmas Carols 13 Dec 2009
I would like to thank the young musicians and Maestro Schembri for inviting me here tonight once again. ...
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- Second Sunday of Advent 6 Dec 2009
All three readings today take up the Advent theme, which began on last Sunday. We need to be preparing, in Paul's words, for the Day of Christ by working to become pure and blameless. ...
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- First Sunday of Advent 29 Nov 2009
Christmas decorations have been on display in some shops across Hyde Park for weeks, but the Church season of Advent only starts today. ...
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- Feast of Christ the King 22 Nov 2009
Today is the last Sunday of "Ordinary Time" which runs from after Christmas with the interruptions of Lent, Easter, Pentecost, until Advent. ...
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- Centenary Mass 15 Nov 2009
During the last few weeks we have had a beautiful succession of Second Readings from the Epistle to the Hebrews on Christ the High Priest. ...
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- All Saints - St. Jeanne Jugan 1 Nov 2009
Today the Feast of All Saints is celebrated unusually on the first Sunday of November and here in Sydney we are using today's feast to commemorate the canonization in Rome three weeks ago of Sister Jeanne Jugan, the founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor. ...
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- 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time 25 Oct 2009
In the gospel of today we hear of the curing of the blind beggar Bartimaeus, just outside the then recently restored and beautiful old city of Jericho, twenty five kilometres northeast of Jerusalem, where Herod the Great had located his winter palace. ...
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- 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time 13 Sep 2009
In today's readings we deal with a number of central issues: who and what Christ is; the meaning of suffering and how we understand it and cope with it. ...
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- 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 6 Sep 2009
As usual this Sunday Mass is one in a series of appointments I have at the end of a week and during the early days of the week that is starting. ...
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- Mass for Pregnant Women 9 Aug 2009
This morning we are celebrating the second annual Mass and Blessing here at St. Mary's Cathedral for expectant mothers. ...
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- Centenary Mass for Blessed Mary MacKillop 8 Aug 2009
Today we celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Mother Mary of the Cross. We are gathered to thank God for her wonderful contribution and ask His continued blessing on the Josephite sister. ...
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- 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Aug 2009
Today we welcome to the Cathedral the Catholic society for the hearing impaired and for the deaf. ...
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- 150th Anniversary 12 Jul 2009
In the second century "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles" (Didache), which is one of the readings in the official Prayer of the Church for last week, ...
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- Corpus Christi 14 Jun 2009
Naturally we share the feasts of Easter and Pentecost with all other Christians and generally now all followers of Christ celebrate the feast of Christmas, the birth of the Christ child. ...
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- Pentecost Sunday 31 May 2009
Today we celebrate the fact that the Spirit of God is still with us in a wonderful way within the Church community, if we allow Him to be present. ...
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- 'Ascension of the Lord' 24 May 2009
The Ascension is the last appearance of the Risen Christ. He had used the period after his death and resurrection to instruct his apostles and disciples on what was going on. ...
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- Easter Sunday 12 Apr 2009
The resurrection is the high point of Holy Week..
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- Chrism Mass, Holy Thursday 9 Apr 2009
Each year I look forward to the Annual Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, when the priests of the dioceses gather with their bishop for the blessing of the Holy Oils. ...
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- Rome 4 Apr 2009
We are on the brink of Holy Week, when we commemorate the institution of the Eucharist as well as the suffering, death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. ...
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- Feast of the Annunciation 25 Mar 2009
We are gathered here this evening on the Feast of the Annunciation to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the foundation of the Marian Community of Reconciliation, the Fraternas in 1991. ...
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- Second Sunday of Lent 8 Mar 2009
For the theme of my sermon on this second Sunday of Lent I have chosen not to preach on the Transfiguration, that premature manifestation of God's glory; ...
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- Mark's Passion 8 Mar 2009
The cross is still one of the most powerful symbols in the Western world, even for people of little Christian or religious understanding. ...
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- First Sunday of Lent 1 Mar 2009
Lent started on last Wednesday, Ash Wednesday. In the words of today's gospel, we are again called to repent, and believe; decisions of the heart and the head. ...
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- Truths 22 Feb 2009
In today's gospel passage we have the intriguing miracle of the cure of the lame man, ...
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- The Gospel Paul Preached 8 Feb 2009
In the second reading today Paul boasts of the duty he is under to preach the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ....
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- Golden Jubilee 7 Feb 2009
We are gathered today to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of St. Bernadette's Church, Carlton; ...
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- Red Mass 2 Feb 2009
A just system of law, administered by just and competent men and now women of the law, is one of the characteristics of societies which endure and which deserve to endure. ...
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- 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Celibacy of the Clergy 1 Feb 2009
Today I will use the second reading from St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians to speak about the celibacy of the clergy, that mandatory discipline for priests like myself of the Roman or Latin Rite. ...
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- Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 18 Jan 2009
The readings today offer an abundance of riches with the Old Testament and the Gospel talking about God's calling Samuel ...
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- Baptism of the Lord 11 Jan 2009
During the past week the situation has moved quickly in the cycle during the liturgical year which commemorates the events in Our Lord's life. ...
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