What is Lent? What is Ash Wednesday? What does fasting mean? All these questions answered in 60 seconds with this video made with Lego! REFLECT 1. ‘Spending less and giving […]
06
Mar
2019
05
Mar
2019
HOMILY FOR PROJECT COMPASSION LAUNCH + TUESDAY 8TH WEEK ORDINARY TIME
“What about me?” sang Shannon Noll after coming second in the first Australian Idol series in 2003. Peter asks the same in our Gospel today (Mk 10:28-31).
03
Mar
2019
HOMILY FOR THE 8TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME YEAR C
The blind leading the blind. The disciple disregarding the teacher. The hypocrite taking splinters from people’s eyes while there’s a plank in his own. Today Jesus convicts Israel and the Church of these failings (Lk 6:39-45).
20
Feb
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR OPENING OF THE SEMINARY YEAR
What’s different about priests? Strange clothes and even stranger personalities? A super commitment to God and the Church? Being professionally religious? Well, in the face of a radical treat to the priesthood
17
Feb
2019
HOMILY FOR THE ANNUAL ARCHDIOCESAN MULTICULTURAL MASS
“You’re a mongrel dog!” – a friend said to me once, surprised to learn I had ancestors and relatives from all continents. Only in Australia could that be said affectionately!
10
Feb
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE 5TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME YEAR C
The 18th century Scots philosopher David Hume had some strange ideas. Taking a boldly skeptical approach to almost everything, he doubted that there is a permanent self that continues through time or that there was real cause and effect in the external world.
08
Feb
2019
ANTI-SLAVERY ETHICAL SOURCING SEMINAR & EXPO FEAST OF ST BAKHITA
Welcome to St Mary’s Cathedral Hall to this Anti-Slavery Ethical Sourcing Seminar and Expo. As we honour past and present elders of the Gadigal People and the Eora Nation, we acknowledge that our history as a nation includes a shameful chapter in which many Indigenous people
08
Feb
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE FEAST OF ST. JOSEPHINE BAHKITA
The story of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37) is surely one of the most beloved of all Jesus’ parables. But the risk with stories we’ve all heard before is that we switch off when they are retold.
05
Feb
2019
MASS FOR 125th ANNIVERSARY OF SANTA SABINA COLLEGE
There are in religion two contrary tendencies. The first focuses on the spiritual dimension of human beings. It regards the physical universe as confining and distracting, and emphasises God the pure spirit, the angels also, and the dead now released from bodily life.
24
Jan
2019
HOMILY FOR MASS OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES AFTER WYD CATECHESIS
Google “how to be a great lover” and you get some interesting answers. Some offer advice to men who are all at sea when it comes to women: world-shattering insights as “Make time for her”, “Listen to her” and “Compliment her”.