Homilies

Welcome all to this very significant occasion for the parish, as we consecrate your new altar and dedicate the renewed fittings in your church…

Today we celebrate the Mass of Blessing of the St John Paul II Chapel, the Dedication of the Altar, and the Opening and Blessing of the John Paul the Great Catholic Centre in the University of Sydney…

Welcome to this evening’s annual Archdiocesan Memorial Mass for the Unborn…

Welcome to this morning’s Solemn Mass here at St Mary’s Cathedral…

It’s my great pleasure to celebrate with you the feast of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta for my first time as the Archbishop of Sydney…

In November 1928 Donald Bradman made his test debut for Australia, batting in the middle order and scoring only 18 and 1…

According to our book of origins, the genesis of the human story was in a beautiful garden, full of flora and fauna, located near the rivers Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, gave up their privileged position and so ours in that garden “all for an apple”, disobeying God and committing the Original Sin;

“And the Word was made App and dwelt somewhere in the virtual universe”. It is easy today to inhabit or at least slip in and out of an alternative reality created by devices – iPhones, iPads, Androids, Notebooks, Tablets and Kindles – each with almost endless connectivity, apps and tools, social networks and so on.

Introduction for Annual Mass for Pregnant Mothers, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year BSt Mary’s Cathedral Sydney, 23 August 2015 Welcome to you all to this morning’s Solemn Mass at […]

We’ve all seen the ads for Lotto in which average punters are tantalized with offers of obscene amounts of money. In one a devoted father is shown giving his pregnant daughter and son-in-law a mortgage-free property.