What sound most moves us? A natural one such as a thunder-clap, rain on a tin roof, or a kookaburra’s laugh? Or a more human sound, such as the weeping of a well-played violin or of those who must listen to one being played badly? A siren racing a patient to hospital?
HOMILIES AND STATEMENTS
HOMILY FOR THE MASS DURING THE DAY OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD – ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY
What sound most moves us? A natural one such as a thunder-clap, rain on a tin roof, or a kookaburra’s laugh? Or a more human sound, such as the weeping of a well-played violin or of those who must listen to one being played badly?
ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY FISHER WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF NEW BISHOP OF LISMORE
I offer my warmest congratulations to Father Greg Homeming OCD on his appointment yesterday by Pope Francis as the sixth Bishop of Lismore.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 4TH SUNDAY IN ADVENT YEAR A AND INSTALLATION OF FR LIEM DUONG AS PARISH PRIEST – SACRED HEART PARISH CHURCH, CABRAMATTA
“No, I will not put the Lord to the test.” So says Ahaz in our first reading today. To demand a sign from God – indeed to demand anything from God – is to attempt to manipulate God or to treat Him as if He somehow owes us something. It is irreverent, controlling, arrogant.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 3RD SUNDAY OF ADVENT YEAR A – ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY
If the Virgin Mary is our Christmas hero among the saints, holding forth the baby Jesus for our adoration; if the apostle John is our Lenten favourite, resting on Jesus’ breast at the Last Supper and alone of the apostles beside the Good Friday Cross; if St Mary Magdalene is our hero amongst the saints of Easter, first to proclaim Christ’s Resurrection; then St John the Baptist is surely our Advent Saint.
Is Faithfulness And Truth Iwitness ‘Keeping The Faith’ Conference Collaroy
Recently the Oxford English Dictionary announced its Word of the Year 2016 was 'post-truth'.
HOMILY FOR BLESSING AND OPENING OF THE NEW BUILDING EILEEN O’CONNOR CATHOLIC COLLEGE
It was written two thousand years ago to a small Phrygian city in Asia Minor. Yet our reading today from St Paul’s Letter to the Colossians might easily have been directed to the leaders, staff and students of Sydney Catholic Schools, as a reminder of what we could and should be.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENT, YEAR A, + 60TH JUBILEE OF PRIESTHOOD OF BISHOP BERNARD O’GRADY OP MARIA REGINA CATHOLIC CHURCH AVALON
Your Excellency, Most Rev. Adolfo Tito Yllana, Apostolic Nuncio to Australia; My Lords, Most Rev. Peter Comensoli, Bishop of Broken Bay and Most Rev. David Walker, Bishop Emeritus of Broken Bay…
HOMILY FOR LOURDES DAY MASS WITH ORDER OF MALTA – ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL
In a speech in Doha billed as a critique of the foreign policy failures of the Bush and Obama eras, veteran New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh alleged that the US military’s joint special operations command had been infiltrated by members of the Order of Malta and that these fanatics are modern-day crusaders who “aim to turn mosques into cathedrals”
HOMILY FOR UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA GRADUATION MASS – ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY
Margaret Atwood is one of Canada’s most prolific and diverse authors. She has published 17 novels, 10 anthologies of short stories, 20 poetry collections, 7 children’s books, 10 non-fiction books, 3 television scripts, a graphic novel and 3 libretti – so far.