She's fat! Fat with child. She's only young and yet there's an eight-and-a-half month baby on board. Her friends call her Mazza. Boyfriend Joe.
07
Dec
2017
03
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT YEAR B – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
The Season of Advent has been celebrated since around the fourth century AD when Christmas was fixed on 25 December.
02
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR LOURDES DAY MASS FOR THE ORDER OF MALTA – St. Mary’s Cathedral
On the centenary of the apparitions at Lourdes, Pope Pius XII published his encyclical Le Pelegrinage de Lourdes from which I would like to quote a few lines…
01
Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR CONSECRATED LIFE – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Consider the names in the Roman Canon – a fraction of the saints only, but a kind of roll-call of stand-out figures in the early Church: apostles, popes, virgins, men and women saints, mostly martyrs, some gruesomely so.
27
Nov
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE SILVER JUBLIEE OF FR DON RICHARDSON’S ORDINATION – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Graham Greene’s 1940 novel The Power and the Glory was the first literary treatment of the priesthood that I can recall reading in my school days.
26
Nov
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE KING- St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
It was only in the totalitarian twentieth century, in which crueller things were done by the rulers of the earth, on a larger scale and with more devilish refinement, than ever before in human history, that Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King.
22
Nov
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS OF ORDINATION TO THE DIACONATE OF CONSTANTINE RODRIGUES, JOHN TING & GREGORY ALESSI – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
“So, what do you do?” It’s the great conversation starter, especially with a stranger whose temperament and history is unknown, indeed when you’re not even sure if you’re sitting beside a terrorist.
08
Nov
2017
HOMILY FOR SYDNEY CATHOLIC YOUTH MASS AND LAUNCH – All Saints Church, Liverpool
A 17-month-old baby, a dozen children, a pregnant woman and mother of five, and three generations from one family, were among the 26 killed in a shooting spree at a Texas church this week.
07
Nov
2017
ADDRESS TO STUDENT LEADERS, SYDNEY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS – St Mary's Cathedral Hall, Sydney
A very warm welcome to our forum for the student leaders in the systemic and congregational schools. I thank Dr Dan White, Mr Anthony Cleary, other education leaders and staff for this initiative.
29
Oct
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 30TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME YEAR A + INSTALLATION OF FR GREG COONEY CM AS PARISH PRIEST OF MARSFIELD
One of the most recognisable songs in the cult-classic movie Back to the Future is ‘The Power of Love’, by Huey Lewis and the News. It reached No. 1 in the charts here in Australia in 1985. I’m not sure if it’s on today’s hymn list…
