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.
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…
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR CONSECRATED LIFE – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Consider the names in the Roman Canon – a fraction of the saints only, but a kind of roll-call of stand-out figures in the early Church: apostles, popes, virgins, men and women saints, mostly martyrs, some gruesomely so.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE SILVER JUBLIEE OF FR DON RICHARDSON’S ORDINATION – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Graham Greene’s 1940 novel The Power and the Glory was the first literary treatment of the priesthood that I can recall reading in my school days.
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE KING- St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
It was only in the totalitarian twentieth century, in which crueller things were done by the rulers of the earth, on a larger scale and with more devilish refinement, than ever before in human history, that Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King.
HOMILY FOR MASS OF ORDINATION TO THE DIACONATE OF CONSTANTINE RODRIGUES, JOHN TING & GREGORY ALESSI – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
“So, what do you do?” It’s the great conversation starter, especially with a stranger whose temperament and history is unknown, indeed when you’re not even sure if you’re sitting beside a terrorist.
HOMILY FOR SYDNEY CATHOLIC YOUTH MASS AND LAUNCH – All Saints Church, Liverpool
A 17-month-old baby, a dozen children, a pregnant woman and mother of five, and three generations from one family, were among the 26 killed in a shooting spree at a Texas church this week.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 30TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME YEAR A + INSTALLATION OF FR GREG COONEY CM AS PARISH PRIEST OF MARSFIELD
One of the most recognisable songs in the cult-classic movie Back to the Future is ‘The Power of Love’, by Huey Lewis and the News. It reached No. 1 in the charts here in Australia in 1985. I’m not sure if it’s on today’s hymn list…
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 30TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME YEAR A + INSTALLATION OF FR GREG COONEY CM AS PARISH PRIEST OF MARSFIELD – St. Anthony’s Church, Marsfield
One of the most recognisable songs in the cult-classic movie Back to the Future is “The Power of Love”, by Huey Lewis and the News.
HOMILY FOR MASS OF 29TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME YEAR A + 10th ANNIVERSARY OF DEDICATION OF HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH – Holy Spirit, Carnes Hill
Our epistle this morning (1Thess 1:1-5) may have seemed little more than a formal g’day and list of acknowledgments like my greeting at the start of Mass. Yet these were in fact the very first words ever written for the New Testament.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR RIVERVIEW 40 YEAR REUNION – St Mary’s Cathedral Crypt, Sydney
Jesuits make great martyrs and Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited and recently-released film, Silence, is a confronting glimpse of one period of Jesuit heroism and betrayal.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE FEAST OF ST. LUKE THE EVANGELIST – Warrane College Chapel, University of New South Wales
Most of what we know about St Luke comes from the New Testament. He was a Greek-speaking disciple of St Paul and his companion in mission: in fact, he was one of the few people who could long abide Paul’s rather difficult personality.