 “Silence is God’s first language,” wrote the 16th-century mystic John of the Cross, because silence is the normal context in which contemplative prayer takes place. And although God in […]
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Homily For Lourdes Day Mass 2018
In The Brothers Karamazov the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky famously wrote that ‘hell is the suffering of being unable to love’. A serious Christian himself, though one who experienced grave doubts
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Remarks For Red Wednesday
Thank-you Dean Richardson, Mr Toutounji and Mr Tobin. Your Eminences and Excellencies, Reverend Sirs and Ladies, Friends all: welcome to my place! It is a tribute to the kind of country Australia is that religious leaders, representatives
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Book Launch For In God’s Image By Archbishop Commensoli
Thank you, Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Dr Zimmerman, Teresa, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure for me to launch Archbishop Peter Comensoli’s In God’s Image: Recognizing the Profoundly
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Homily For Mass For Solemnity Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King Of The Universe (Year B)
In early 1818, the English romantic poets Percy Shelley and Horace Smith took up a friendly competition to each write a sonnet on the same theme.
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Address To Student Leaders, Sydney Catholic Schools
A very warm welcome to our forum for the student leaders in the systemic and congregational schools. I thank Mr Anthony Cleary, Michael Kelleher, Glen Thompson, and other education leaders and staff
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Protected: Meditations with Fulton Sheen: The Eucharist
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Remarks at Launch of Parliamentary Friends of Cath Schools
St Patrick’s Primary School Parramatta and Parramatta Marist are able to trace a continuous line with the school founded by the first Catholic Chaplain to the Colony
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Homily For Mass Of 32nd Sunday Ordinary Time Year B
Corporal Roger Morgan, of Richmond, Victoria, joined the 1st Australian Field Ambulance in 1915, and arrived on the fields of France a year later.
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Homily For Mass Of Ordinations To The Permanent Diaconate
You are a temple… Treat your body as a temple. It’s a tenet of new age spirituality. Indeed the hippie blogsite Feel Good