This past week a pall of smoke hung over our city, as the Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter regions were alerted that they were in “Catastrophic Fire Danger”.
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Nov
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Nov
2019
ADDRESS TO STUDENT LEADERS, SYDNEY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
A warm welcome once again to our forum for the student leaders in the systemic and congregational schools. I thank Mr Tony Farley, Mr Anthony Cleary, and other education leaders and staff for this initiative.
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Nov
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 32ND SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME C + ORDINATION TO THE DIACONATE OF ALFREDO BOURONCLE
Drought, death and diaconate: three themes in our minds today. Drought because the Church in Australia is praying throughout the month of November for our parched land and those affected.
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Nov
2019
INTRODUCTION TO THE SOLEMN MASS OF INSTALLATION OF MOST REV. ANTHONY RANDAZZO AS BISHOP OF BROKEN BAY
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ: it’s a joy to be here with you tonight as Most Rev. Anthony Randazzo is installed as Bishop of Broken Bay.
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Nov
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR ABORIGINAL CATHOLIC MINISTRY + FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
When was the last time you climbed a tree? For most of the children here it’s the most natural thing in the world, something you may regularly do just because the tree is there, or for the challenge of it, or in order to see further.
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Oct
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR TUESDAY 30TH WEEK ORDINARY TIME YEAR 1
Part of the genius of Christianity over the centuries has been its ability to take to itself a whole menagerie of ideas that come from outside it. In our own age the analytical philosophy, democratic politics, capitalist economics, Marxist analysis,
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Oct
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE 30TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME C
After the 2016 Rio Olympics, an image went viral of the American swimmer, Michael Phelps, and the one in the next lane, Chad le Clos. Phelps is focused solely on the finishing line, but le Clos is turned towards his arch-rival Phelps.
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Oct
2019
“Listen to what the Spirit is saying”
It’s a strange and portentous book, the last one in the Bible, theApocalypse of St John or Book of Revelation. It opens as a letter from John, the beloved young friend of Jesus, who is all grown up now and writing to the seven Christian communities in what is Turkey today.
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Oct
2019
“Conscience, Relativism and Truth: The Witness of Newman”
Tomorrow the Church will canonise a man whose life and work has been described by Pope Benedict XVI as ‘one great commentary on the question of conscience’, who was praised by St John Paul II
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Oct
2019
Edict: Beatification and Canonisation of the Servant of God, Eileen O’Connor
In the name of the Archdiocese of Sydney, the Reverend Father Anthony L’Estrange Robbie, the duly appointed Postulator for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Eileen Rosaline O ‘Connor
