Introduction to Mass for the Centenary of St Ambrose’s Parish, 2nd Sunday of Advent (Year C)
St Ambrose’s Parish, 8 December 2024 Last week (Lk 21:25-28,34-36) and this (Lk 3:1-6) we read from the Gospel of […]
Introduction to Mass for the Centenary of Holy Innocents’ Parish, 1st Sunday of Advent (Year C)
Holy Innocents Croydon, 1 December 2024 Reading the tea leaves is a common expression for attending to signs and being
Homily for Mass of Ordination to the Priesthood of Rev. Luis Alejandro Giraldo Alavrez and Rev. Nonie Calunsod Tiburan
Feast of the Holy Apostle Andrew, St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney, 30 November 2024 At first there was one. Andrew Johnson,
Homily For Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (Year B) + Investiture in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 24 November 2024 Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper follows the lives of two young
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THURSDAY OF THE THIRTY-SECOND WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME, YEAR 2
As a genre, prison literature comes in many forms: narrative, poetry, journal entries, spiritual meditations, philosophical dialogue, just to name a few. Its popularity is understandable given the raw emotions that the thought of imprisonment evokes. Whether just or unjust, to be deprived of liberty…
HOMILY FOR A VOTIVE MASS OF OUR LADY + BLESSING OF THE CONVENT FOR THE SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF CHINA
Last week, much of the world watched on in anticipation for the results of the US Presidential Election. Broadcasters ran non-stop coverage of the count in real time, with panels of ‘experts’ analysing the results as they trickled in with fancy…
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR B
Sir Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata, the 19th century Persian-Indian industrialist, founded India’s largest business conglomerate, the Tata Group, and established the eponymous city of Jamshedpur. In his lifetime he gave away more than $US100 billion in today’s values, far more than big…
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME, YEAR B
In 2015, tech-giant Microsoft set out to build the world’s quietest room for testing headphones, microphones and the like.[1] After more than two years they had constructed a room of six layers of concrete and steel, sitting on vibration-damping springs. The floor is a grid of suspended cables and the walls…
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE CLOSING CELEBRATIONS OF THE 800TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF DOMINICANS IN IRELAND
Padraic Colum’s 1920 collection of Norse myths, The Children of Odin, was an example of the Celtic Literary Revival led by William Butler Yates Yeats, and including luminaries such as Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn. Odin was the Norse…
HOMILY FOR THE PONTIFICAL MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL FOR MONSIGNOR JOHN USHER, AM
At the end of the Great Depression, social scientists enlisted a group of 268 sophomore students at Harvard, including the young John F. Kennedy, to be part of a longitudinal study aimed at better understanding happiness. The researchers traced the lives of the participants…
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH LIVERPOOL
The British rock band Oasis recently sent the music world into a spin by announcing their reunion after a 15-year hiatus and proposing a 2025 world tour. One the most successful British bands of all time, Oasis dominated the 1990s pop scene, selling 70 million albums worldwide, until bandmates and blood brothers…
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR MONDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME, YEAR 253RD INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS, QUITO, ECUADOR
SEÑOR DE LA ASCENSIÓN CONCEPCIÓN PARISH, LA PRIMAVERA, CUMBAYÁ, QUITO “Stretch out your hand.” Simple words spoken to a man