Homily for Mass with Consecration of Altar, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Welcome all to this very significant occasion for the parish, as we consecrate your new altar and dedicate the renewed fittings in your church…
Homily for Mass of Blessing of St John Paul II Chapel with Dedication of the Altar and Opening and Blessing of the John Paul the Great Catholic Centre in the University of Sydney
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…
Homily for the Annual Memorial Mass for the Unborn
Welcome to this evening’s annual Archdiocesan Memorial Mass for the Unborn…
Homily for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Welcome to this morning’s Solemn Mass here at St Mary’s Cathedral…
Homily for the Feast of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
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…
Homily for Anniversary Mass of Dedication
In November 1928 Donald Bradman made his test debut for Australia, batting in the middle order and scoring only 18 and 1…
Homily for Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time on Feast Day of St Fiacre
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;
Homily for Mass of Wednesday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time
“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.
Annual Mass for Pregnant Mothers, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Introduction for Annual Mass for Pregnant Mothers, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney, 23 August
Homily for Mass with Seminarians
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.
Homily for Mass of Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
One of the most successful TV sitcoms of all time was Frasier. It ran for eleven seasons till 2004 and won 37 Emmies…
Homily for the Solemnity of the Assumption and Ordination of Lewi Barakat and Thomas Stevens to the Priesthood
The low-budget Christian horror-film Final: The Rapture was released late last year. Directed by Timothy Chey, it details the global chaos after all the best people are raptured up to heaven – as some evangelical Christians believe will happen – and follows the stories of four of those left behind. Professional footballer Colin Nelson (played by Jah Shams) is one left stranded when his good Christian wife is assumed into heaven (she’s played, appropriately enough, by an actress named Mary Grace).