STATEMENT ON THE RESPONSE OF THE CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY TO MODERN SLAVERY Cathedral House, Sydney, 8 February 2018 I would like to begin by acknowledging the efforts of the […]
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Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (Red Mass), St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
One of the most highly acclaimed films of the past year is the biographical war drama, Hacksaw Ridge. Andrew Garfield brilliantly plays Desmond Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist Christian who served as a U.S. army medic in the Second World War but refused to bear arms. He was the first conscientious objector …
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2018
Diamond Jubilee of Profession, Mary Mackillop Memorial Chapel, North Sydney
Well, the verdict is in. After a meticulous search through eight million books published between 1776 and 2009 for positive words such as ‘enjoyment’, ‘peace’ and ‘happiness’, researchers at Warwick University have concluded that 1957 was the happiest year in modern history.
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2017
HOMILY FOR THE MASS OF THE DAY OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD – St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Genealogy is all the rage. There are plenty of websites and search companies to help: some search birth and death, migration and marriage, council and electoral records for you; others even investigate your DNA.
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Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR CAS STAFF MASS, SMC CRYPT
Why the reading for the Annunciation five days out from the Nativity.
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Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 3RD SUNDAY OF ADVENT, YEAR B – St. Mary’s Basilica, Sydney
The recent sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for a record $A591M drew renewed attention to all Leonardo’s works.
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Dec
2017
HOMILY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC YOUTH FESTIVAL CLOSING MASS – 2nd Sunday Advent Year B, The Domain, Sydney
Episode 8 is coming. When I was your age, in my last year of school, “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, the first Star Wars film was released.
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Dec
2017
OFFICIAL WELCOME AND CATECHESIS – “OPEN NEW HORIZONS FOR SPREADING JOY” – Qudos Bank Arena
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.
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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.
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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…