ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL SYDNEY, 9 FEBRUARY 2025 It’s an old fishing trick. In the days leading up to an expedition, experienced anglers cast a handful of bran or other roughage […]
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2025
HOMILY FOR VOTIVE MASS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE LAW TERM (‘THE RED MASS’)
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 3 FEBRUARY 2025 Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville, was the notorious Public Prosecutor during France’s ‘Reign of Terror’. For his outsized role in delivering thousands to […]
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2025
HOMILY FOR THE FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (CANDLEMAS) NATIONAL JUBILEE FOR CONSECRATED LIFE
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 2 FEBRUARY 2025 A few days ago, the Church celebrated the memorial of St Thomas Aquinas, the great 13th-century Dominican friar who was arguably the greatest […]
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2024
HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMN MASS FOR THE OPENING OF THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH (YEAR C)
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 29 DECEMBER 2024 It’s the original Home Alone story. Like many pious Jews, Joseph, Mary and the kid had their holidays in Jerusalem during the weeklong […]
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Dec
2024
Introduction To Mass Of Gaudete Sunday (3rd Sunday Of Advent), Year C
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 15 December 2024 Can we measure happiness? One way might simply be to ask people how happy they feel on a scale of 1 to 10. […]
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Dec
2024
Papal Awards 2024
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one.
Take honour from me and my life is done.
Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try.
In that I live, and for will I die.
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Dec
2024
Introduction to Sydney Catholic Schools End of Year Staff Mass
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Thursday 2nd Week of Advent, 12 December 2024 Sometimes in life we feel besieged, as though, in the words of our Gospel, the violent were taking […]
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Dec
2024
Fervorino For Blessing And Opening Of New Hall And Refurbished Learning Spaces St Ambrose Catholic Primary School
St Ambrose Catholic Primary School, 8 December 2024 Today the Parish of St Ambrose has celebrated a century of service to the district. It began as a few dozen Catholic […]
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Dec
2024
Introduction to Mass for the Centenary of St Ambrose’s Parish, 2nd Sunday of Advent (Year C)
St Ambrose’s Parish, 8 December 2024 Last week (Lk 21:25-28,34-36) and this (Lk 3:1-6) we read from the Gospel of St Luke and will continue to do so every Sunday […]
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Dec
2024
Introduction to Mass for the Centenary of Holy Innocents’ Parish, 1st Sunday of Advent (Year C)
Holy Innocents Croydon, 1 December 2024 Reading the tea leaves is a common expression for attending to signs and being prescient in interpreting them with a view to knowing the […]