A warm welcome to St Mary’s Cathedral as we celebrate today the Rite of Election and Presentation of Baptised Candidates for Full Communion…
22
Feb
2015
18
Feb
2015
Homily for Ash Wednesday
Welcome all to today’s Mass to begin the Church’s penitential season of Lent. Today we impart ashes on our foreheads as sign of our repentance…
16
Feb
2015
Address at Caritas Australia Project Compassion NSW Parliamentary Lunch
Address at Caritas Australia Project Compassion NSW Parliamentary LunchNSW Parliament House, 16 February 2015 Welcome to this year¡¦s Parliamentary Lunch to launch Project Compassion for 2015. I am grateful to Hon. Barry O¡¦Farrell MP, Member for Ku-ring-gai, for hosting today. I acknowledge his presence and that of Hon. Mike Baird MP, Premier of NSW, as […]
15
Feb
2015
Homily for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Stephen Fry – English pundit, TV personality and writer – recently stirred up a controversy on Irish television.
13
Feb
2015
Mass to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of St John Bosco
On Anzac Day in 1934 a Tasmanian newspaper published an article “I was eleven”.
12
Feb
2015
Mass to Open Seminary Year
It’s our foundation myth as a nation. It’s enshrined in our national monuments, public holiday, clubs and secular ritual.
10
Feb
2015
Introduction to the Funeral Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Fr Ronald Harden
Today, we offer Mass for the repose of the soul of Fr Ronald Walter Burdett Harden…
09
Feb
2015
CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM LEADERS’ JOINT STATEMENT IN MERCY PLEA FOR BALI NINE PAIR
Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP and Grand Mufti, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammad of the Australian National Imams Council have jointly called for clemency…
08
Feb
2015
Mass on Feast of St Josphine Bakhita with Sudanese Catholic Community
Welcome to today’s Mass here at St Mary’s Cathedral as the Sudanese-Australian Catholic Community celebrates its Patronal Feast Day, that of St Josephine Bakhita…
08
Feb
2015
Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B
World Day of Prayer, Reflection and Action against Human Trafficking…
