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Apr 12, 2024
Newly-consecrated Oil of the Sick, Oil of Catechumens (for baptisms) and Oil for Holy Chrism. Photo: Giovanni Portelli Liquid gold. Homer’s ancient name for olive oil[i] has made a comeback, following a surge in prices across the Mediterranean.[ii] Drought and a bacterial infection have seen global production fall this past year and the price of […]
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Apr 02, 2024
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP greets the faithful outside of St Mary’s Cathedral on Easter Sunday morning. Photo: Giovanni Portelli It’s the holiest place on earth—the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem—and on entering it the first thing you see is the Stone of Unction, traditionally the slab upon which Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus […]
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Mar 22, 2024
The Resurrection, painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1457–1459, Image Wikimedia Commons This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for the 5th Sunday of Lent, Year B, for the Opening of Catholic Institute of Sydney Academic Year at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 17 March 2024 “Sir, can we please see […]
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Mar 04, 2024
The Sacrifice of Abraham by Andrea del Sarto, C. 1485-1530. Photo: Jean Louis Mazieres/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED It was known as The Nuremberg Defence. Following the Second World War, an International Military Tribunal was established by the principal Allied powers, tasked with prosecuting those responsible for the most heinous of the Nazi “crimes against […]
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Feb 03, 2024
If we are genuinely inspired by that Holy Spirit whose Great South Land is ours also—then nothing need shake our confidence and determination to keep making our nation better, says Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP. This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the Australia Day Mass at the […]
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Jan 21, 2024
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP leads prayers at Cardinal George Pell’s tomb after a memorial Mass on 10 January. Photo: Patrick J Lee This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the Memorial Mass for George Cardinal Pell, St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 10 January 2024. Years ago, I was […]
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Jan 12, 2024
The Annunciation by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1644. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Public Domain This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the Mass of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary at Purpose Conference 2023, Rosebank College, 8 December 2023 According to Dictionary.com, a ‘screenager’ […]
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Dec 31, 2023
Members of the newly formed Holy Family Catholic Parish in Mosman. Photo: Supplied This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for the 2nd Sunday of Advent B and Mass of Thanksgiving for newly formed Holy Family Catholic Parish Mosman at Sacred Heart Church, Mosman, 10 December 2023. It’s […]
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Dec 26, 2023
Children enjoy the lights at the launch od Christmas at the Cathedral. Photo: Giovanni Portelli This is the edited text of the Ferverino given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the nineteenth annual carols with the Archbishop and the World Youth Day Orchestra at Holy Family Church, Maroubra, 10 December 2023. The American writer William […]
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Dec 15, 2023
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP gathered gathered with faith leaders in solidarity to lament the horrors and heartache unfolding in wars around the world and especially in the Holy Land, and to pray for a just and lasting peace. Photo: Giovanni Portelli This is the edited text of the reflection given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP […]
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