HOMILY FOR MEN’S MINISTRY MASSMEMORIAL OF ST SCHOLASTICA

Feb 10, 2025

HOMILY FOR MEN’S MINISTRY MASSMEMORIAL OF ST SCHOLASTICA

ST JEROME’S CHURCH, PUNCHBOWL, 10 FEBRUARY 2025 My beloved Dominican brother, Fr Dominic Murphy, once gave a series on the Theology of the Body in which he proposed that all men are genetically somewhat autistic and all women at least a little neurotic. Men can be so practically-focused that they fail to pick up cues […]

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HOMILY FOR VOTIVE MASS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE LAW TERM (‘THE RED MASS’)

Feb 03, 2025

HOMILY FOR VOTIVE MASS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE LAW TERM (‘THE RED MASS’)

ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 3 FEBRUARY 2025 Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville, was the notorious Public Prosecutor during France’s ‘Reign of Terror’. For his outsized role in delivering thousands to the ‘National Razor,’ he earned the nickname ‘Purveyor to the Guillotine.’[1] An industrious lawyer, sympathetic to the ideals of the revolution, Fouquier was appointed Accusateur […]

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HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMN MASS FOR THE OPENING OF THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH (YEAR C)

Dec 29, 2024

HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMN MASS FOR THE OPENING OF THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH (YEAR C)

ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 29 DECEMBER 2024 It’s the original Home Alone story. Like many pious Jews, Joseph, Mary and the kid had their holidays in Jerusalem during the weeklong Passover celebrations (Lk 2:41-52). They did this every year, only this time something went very wrong. Amidst the to-ing and fro-ing of the hundred thousand […]

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Introduction to Sydney Catholic Schools End of Year Staff Mass

Dec 12, 2024

Introduction to Sydney Catholic Schools End of Year Staff Mass

St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Thursday 2nd Week of Advent, 12 December 2024 Sometimes in life we feel besieged, as though, in the words of our Gospel, the violent were taking God’s kingdom by storm (Mt 11:11-15). In a report entitled Persecuted and Forgotten? Aid to the Church in Need recently named eighteen countries where Christians […]

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