Genealogy is all the rage. There are plenty of websites and search companies to help: some search birth and death, migration and marriage, council and electoral records for you; others even investigate your DNA.
25
Dec
2017
20
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR CAS STAFF MASS, SMC CRYPT
Why the reading for the Annunciation five days out from the Nativity.
17
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 3RD SUNDAY OF ADVENT, YEAR B – St. Mary’s Basilica, Sydney
The recent sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for a record $A591M drew renewed attention to all Leonardo’s works.
09
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC YOUTH FESTIVAL CLOSING MASS – 2nd Sunday Advent Year B, The Domain, Sydney
Episode 8 is coming. When I was your age, in my last year of school, “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, the first Star Wars film was released.
07
Dec
2017
OFFICIAL WELCOME AND CATECHESIS – “OPEN NEW HORIZONS FOR SPREADING JOY” – Qudos Bank Arena
She's fat! Fat with child. She's only young and yet there's an eight-and-a-half month baby on board. Her friends call her Mazza. Boyfriend Joe.
03
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT YEAR B – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
The Season of Advent has been celebrated since around the fourth century AD when Christmas was fixed on 25 December.
02
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR LOURDES DAY MASS FOR THE ORDER OF MALTA – St. Mary’s Cathedral
On the centenary of the apparitions at Lourdes, Pope Pius XII published his encyclical Le Pelegrinage de Lourdes from which I would like to quote a few lines…
01
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR CONSECRATED LIFE – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Consider the names in the Roman Canon – a fraction of the saints only, but a kind of roll-call of stand-out figures in the early Church: apostles, popes, virgins, men and women saints, mostly martyrs, some gruesomely so.
27
Nov
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE SILVER JUBLIEE OF FR DON RICHARDSON’S ORDINATION – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Graham Greene’s 1940 novel The Power and the Glory was the first literary treatment of the priesthood that I can recall reading in my school days.
26
Nov
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE KING- St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
It was only in the totalitarian twentieth century, in which crueller things were done by the rulers of the earth, on a larger scale and with more devilish refinement, than ever before in human history, that Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King.
