What an awesome opening this has been for our Australian Catholic Youth Festival! And you might say: surprising. After all, our theme – “Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God”
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Dec
2015
Address at CEO Student Leadership Forum St Mary’s Cathedral Hall
A very warm to our Forum for the student leaders in the systemic and congregational schools of the Archdiocese.
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Nov
2015
Homily for the First Sunday of Advent Year C with Investiture of Members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was one of the wittiest ever exponents of the English language. He lived a rather colourful and controversial existence in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Nov
2015
Homily for Mass of the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, Year B, St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
These days words can pop into the English lexicon before our eyes. So, for example, the proper noun ‘Google’ has become a verb: ‘to google’ something means to search for it on the internet.
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Nov
2015
Homily for Requiem Mass for the Victims of Terror and Prayers for Peace St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
They were people just like us, doing the most innocent and human of things: eating with family at a restaurant, working in a pizzeria, cheering at a football friendly, having a drink with friends in a bar, singing and dancing at a rock concert.
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Nov
2015
Homily for Mass with Members of the Association of Papal Orders St Mary’s Cathedral Crypt, Sydney
As she approached the guillotine, the erstwhile Archduchess of Austria, Dauphine of France, then Queen of France and Navarre, Marie Antoinette, trod on her executioner’s foot.
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Nov
2015
Homily on the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Redemptoris Mater Seminary, Chester Hill
The Medieval Florentine poet, Dante Alighieri, authored the most famous poem in the history of Christendom, The Divine Comedy. When one of my Aussie-born seminarians in Parramatta …
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Nov
2015
Homily for the Mass of the 32nd Sunday, Year B St Dominic’s Church, Camberwell
A photo of First Communion Day 1955 here at St Dominic’s shows pews filled of young girls in white bridal gowns and tulle veils, expectantly awaiting their bridegroom the Eucharistic Lord.
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Nov
2015
Homily for Memorial Mass on the First Anniversary of the Death of Nicholas Tonti-Filippini St Gregory the Great Church, Doncaster
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul [and mind] and strength,” as John read to us from Deuteronomy today and as Jesus paraphrased, adding the cognate command to “love your neighbour as yourself” (Dt 6:4-6; Lk 10:27).
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Nov
2015
Occasional Address at Graduation Ceremony International College of Management, Sydney, St Patrick’s Estate, Manly
My thanks to Mr Darryl Courtney-O'Connor AM, Founder and Chair of the International College of Management, Sydney, and his wife Anne, for inviting me to give the Graduation Address today.
