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First Sunday of Advent 2024

My brothers and sisters in Christ, as we begin this season of Advent, we enter a time of watchful waiting, eager expecta ...

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Red Wednesday 2024

This evening, we gather once more in prayer, solidarity, and compassion for our sisters and brothers who suffer persecut ...

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Bishop Anthony's 5th Anniversary as Bishop of Broken Bay

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, as I stand before you today, I have not long returned from Rome where I participate ...

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Ordination to the Diaconate of Joseph Martin Hien Vu

“Nothing can come between us and the love of Christ…” (Romans 8:35) With these words from Saint Paul, the Church of Brok ...

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Red Wednesday 2023

A good friend of mine is from Juba in South Sudan. He and his family have endured violent attacks, religious discrimina ...

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Holy Mass for the Memorial of the Guardian Angels

Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day, be at my side, to light and guard, to ...

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Mass in commemoration of ANZAC Day 2023

A priest confrere of mine who served as a Catholic Chaplain for Australian troops during the War in Iraq recently remind ...

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Ash Wednesday 2023

Just the other day I heard someone parroting the tired old line that we have to become a new Church. This monotonous tu ...

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In Nativatate Domini 2022

Bring on the joy! Bring on the cheer! Dear Santa, I want one of everything! It's your Christmas! March to the beat o ...

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20th Anniversary of the Consecration of the Star of the Sea Church, Terrigal

Over the past four weeks we have been journeying together in anticipation of the coming of Christ at Christmas. It is a ...

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Mass for Expectant Mothers

To conceive a child and bring it to birth is one of the great miracles of life. It is one of those amazing moments, wor ...

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Diocese Celebrates Inauguration of Australia’s First Shrine to St John Paul II

More than a thousand people gathered at St Patrick’s Church, East Gosford last Saturday to celebrate the inauguration of ...

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