HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE FEAST OF THE BEHEADING OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST – Good Shepherd Seminary, Homebush
In the Middle Ages one of most popular devotional items, found in the best Christian homes, was a carved head of St John the Baptist on a plate!
Homily for the Mass of Ordination to the Episcopate of Tony Randazzo and Richard Umbers. St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Feast of St Bartholomew
It is the most confronting image amongst the enormous cast of characters in the Sistine Chapel.
Homily for Mass for Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C + Annual Mass for Pregnant Mothers, St Mary’s Cathedral
We live in the age of “I” and “my”. Devices are called ‘iPhone’, ‘iPod’ and ‘iPad’. ‘MyTrains’ or ‘MyBuses’ take us to ‘MyZones’ or the web takes us to ‘MySchool’ and ‘My eBay’. Ever since ‘the Me generation’ we’ve been bombarded by such self-centred language.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 20TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR C – ST MARTHA’S PARISH, STRATHFIELD
In the fourth instalment in the Die Hard series, released in 2007, John McClane, the old detective played by Bruce Willis, asks the following question: “You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin’. You get shot at.
HOMILY FOR MASS FOLLOWING THE TERRORIST ATTACK IN ST-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY – ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY
In the early hours of yesterday morning-last night for us-85-year-old priest, Fr Jacques Hamel prepared to say Mass. What he didn’t know was that this would be the last Mass he would ever say: just as he was finishing Mass, two terrorists claiming allegiance to Daesh or ISIS stormed the church, taking Fr Hamel and four others hostage.
Homily for the WYD Commissioning Mass & Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
We’ve all heard the story of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37) many times before; though we all love it, it’s so familiar we easily switch off when it starts to be read.
Homily for the Mass for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C – St Mary’s Cathedral
The 18th-century founder of the Redemptorists and Doctor of the Church, St Alphonsus, is a patron saint of vocations, confessors, moral theologians and the lay apostolate.
Homily for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
A former university chaplain tells the story of a young man who had recently returned to the Sacrament of Reconciliation after a long time away and had become something of a Confession evangelist.
Homily for Priestly Ordinations of Joseph Hamilton and Daniele Russo St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Solemnity of the Sacred Heart
According to media reports Jesus has returned as promised and is living in Queensland. The IT specialist turned Jehovah’s Witness elder turned Messiah, Alan John Miller, leads the Divine Truth sect.
Homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ [Corpus Christi] St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
With most sacraments once is enough: Baptism, Confirmation and Priestly Orders are once-for-all sacraments; Matrimony is also, for most people.
Homily for Mass for Easter Sunday 27th March, 2016
One of my favourite films of all time is My Big Fat Greek Wedding. the sequel to which came out on Thursday…
Holy Thursday Chrism Mass: Addresses and Homily
Jesus said to His disciples, “with great desire have I longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer” (Lk 22:15). So too, my dear brothers in the priesthood, and my dear brothers and sisters the faithful of Sydney, I have longed to celebrate Mass with you again while I have been suffering.