Homilies

Why are we hearing about the Annunciation only five days out from the Nativity? Everyone knows there are nine months between a conception and a birth, and in Jesus’ case there was a great deal of

The composer Arnold Schoenberg, notorious for his atonal music, once famously said that ‘my music is not lovely’. In my opinion, he was right. But he insisted that there can be a beauty in music

So began the last book by Theodor Seuss Geisel – ‘Ted’ to his friends or ‘Dr. Seuss’ to those of us who grew up on his story books. I remember The Cat in the Hat when it was

 When we think of nineteenth century comic operetta we naturally think of evan zâytz  Ivan Zajc; but one of the best-loved comic operas is not his but Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado.

Around this time of year, people often phone the cathedral or their parishes to ask what time the Midnight Mass will be. In fairness to them, they are not being stupid: the time of the “Mass at Midnight of the

Why Advent? Lent is sort of obvious: as Jesus makes His way to Jerusalem, to His trial and Cross and tomb, we accompany him with hushed voices, downcast faces, wearing the colour of his bruises.

Today’s Gospel scene (Lk 1:26-38) is probably one of the most memorable in the Bible

One of the best Italian comedies of recent years was Edoardo Falcone’s Se Dio vuole – God Willing (2015).

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

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.

Corporal Roger Morgan, of Richmond, Victoria, joined the 1st Australian Field Ambulance in 1915, and arrived on the fields of France a year later.

You are a temple… Treat your body as a temple. It’s a tenet of new age spirituality. Indeed the hippie blogsite Feel Good