ACSA Newman Dinner “A Person Converting”, St. John’s College, University Of Sydney
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION NEWMAN DINNER “A PERSON CONVERTING” St. John’s College, University Of Sydney Many of you will have […]
Statement on NSW government decision to join National Child Abuse Scheme
STATEMENT FROM MOST REV. ANTHONY FISHER OP ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP,
“BUSINESS ETHICS 101”, Sydney Catholic Business Network Lunch, Sydney
“BUSINESS ETHICS 101 IN THE AGE OF THE CORPORATE TAX CUT” Sydney Catholic Business Network Lunch, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Sydney
3rd Sunday of Lent (Opening of CIS Academic Year), Catholic Institute of Sydney, Strathfield
Christianity often inverts commonsense and subverts common nonsense. What seems like strength is unveiled as weakness, weakness as strength. Sinners become saints, the humble are exalted, outcasts are identified as God’s favourites. The poor, hungry and grieving are deemed happy; the hated and …
Post-Royal Commission service of Prayer and Forgiveness and Reparation, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
POST-ROYAL COMMISSION SERVICE OF PRAYER OF FORGIVENESS AND REPARATION FOR ALL PEOPLE AFFECTED BY ABUSE WITHIN THE CHURCH St. Mary’s
2nd Sunday of Lent (Installation of Acolytes), St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
A man takes his son under false pretences out into the bush. Ties him up. Puts him on a makeshift altar. And takes a knife to his throat (Gen 22:1-18). It’s an appalling story. Could God really want this? How could a man who was willing to do such a thing be celebrated as “our father in faith”?
Ordination of Most Rev. Brian Mascord, WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong
The ‘Chair of Saint Peter’ was given to Pope John VIII in the year 875 by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles the Bald. It is the putative seat of the first Bishop of Rome. Though it is the cathedra of St Peter’s Basilica, it is rather difficult to sit in, as it was enclosed in a baroque gilded casing by Bernini, raised high …
1st Sunday in Lent (Rite of Election), St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Were today not a Sunday it would be the feast day of Blessed Fra Angelico, a Dominican painter on whose feast day I took my vows, and the Patron Saint of Artists. After his fresco of The Baptism of Christ in his cycle for the friars’ cells in the Dominican Priory of San Marco in Florence, comes The Temptation of Christ …
Friday after Ash Wednesday (RoM Conference), St. Benedict’s, Broadway
When you hear words like ‘Lent’, ‘fasting’ and ‘abstinence’, what immediately comes to mind? In my childhood it meant giving up what you liked best, like chocolate, for a few weeks, with exceptions made for birthdays, St Patrick’s Day, other solemnities and, in laxer families, Sundays.
The Challenges of the Times, St. Bernadette’s Parish, Carlton
THE CHALLENGES OF THE TIMES St. Bernadette’s Parish, Carlton When my predecessor Sir Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy returned from one
Ash Wednesday (St. Mary’s Cathedral College), St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris: Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return – so we are reminded every Ash Wednesday of the words of the Book of Genesis. It was the moment when humanity had its first premonition of death as a result of …
Diamond Jubilee of St Catherine Laboure Parish, St. Catherine Labouré Church, Gymea
The British singer-songwriter Steven Demetre Georgiou is better known by his stage name, Cat Stevens. He was all the rage in my adolescence, and perhaps the young Fr Rayner crooned some Cat Stevens with his CYO group. Then, in my last year at school and to everyone’s surprise …