THE MASS OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD
The word pandemic comes from the Greek words pan meaning all – as in ‘panorama’ and ‘pandemonium’ – and demos meaning the people – as in ‘democratic’ and ‘demography’.
DAD DIARIES #3: ESCAPING ESCAPISM
My 17-month-old son has not been quite himself since social restrictions around the CCP Virus began the other week. He is clingier, more moody, and more bored. But why? He isn’t watching the news. Nor is he aware that we are no longer allowed to go to Mass. What he does know is that something is up, and that’s telling.
DAD DIARIES #2: HOW TO BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
I have grown up attending Catholic youth events, men’s events and family events abounding with cakes, cokes, pizzas and sausage-sizzles.
DAD DIARIES #1: THE SCIENCE OF COURAGE
Last Sunday morning I went to pick my 16-month-old son, Athanasius (affectionately known as Acey) out of his cot, and found him drenched in watery poop from the chest down.
HOMILY FOR THE MASS FOR 23RD SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME A + FATHER’S DAY
Perhaps the most famous father in recent pop culture is Homer Simpson. Since 1989 he has starred in most of the 684 episodes and 31 series so far of the animated sitcom The Simpsons.
HOW TO BUILD A JUST SOCIETY
Luke McCormack of the National Civic Council talks about what is needed to build a just and equitable society for families and for each individual person!
HOMILY FOR THE MASS FOR THE NINTH CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF BLESSED FRA GERARD, FOUNDER OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Gregory the Great, a highly educated nobleman of sixth-century Rome, by then a city overrun by barbarians and an empire crumbling.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 22ND SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A
Simon has just made his great profession of faith in Jesus as God and Saviour, been praised and appointed future pope (Mt 16:13-20). All of a sudden the mood changes. Having just renamed him ‘Peter’, Jesus now calls him ‘Satan’ (Mt 16:21-7).
POLITICS NEEDS GOOD CATHOLIC MEN!
Politics needs good Catholic men! Are you one of them? Riverstone State MP, the Honourable Kevin Conolly spoke to us on Friday, 21 August about getting involved in politics.
INTRODUCTION FOR PONTIFICAL MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL FOR SR MARY PAUL OLHC
Welcome to St. Mary’s Basilica in Sydney for the Funeral Mass for Sr Mary Paul OLHC, last surviving member of our the Congregation of Our Lady Help of Christians.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 21ST SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A
In his international best-seller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey argues that there are three stages of maturity: dependence, independence, and interdependence. Together these three form what he calls ‘the maturity continuum’.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 20TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A
Go out to all the world to preach the Good News,” Jesus said (Mk 16:15; cf. Mt 28:19). Paul in our epistle today brags of his mission to the gentiles (Rom 11:13-15,29-32) and we know that he ultimately joined Peter in giving the witness of blood in Rome.