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Homilies 9 Nov 2020

Institution of Lector

When I was about ten years of age, my grandmother gave me a book. On the inside of the cover was written, “In reading l ...

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Homilies 22 Oct 2020

Ordination to the Diaconate - Sam French

Over the past week I have been reflecting upon this Mass in which Samuel French will be ordained to the responsibility o ...

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Homilies 14 Oct 2020

Ordination to the Diaconate - Aldrin Valdehueza

Bibliographies from the time of the early Christian Church are either incredibly detailed or rather vague. The former is ...

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Homilies 8 Oct 2020

Ordination to the Diaconate - Rogelio Delmonte

There are some very worrying developments in our global village. As Pope Francis reminds us in his Encyclical Fratelli ...

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Homilies 17 Sep 2020

Chrism Mass 2020 Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral

Without a doubt, no one could have imagined that we would be celebrating the Chrism Mass in September. And yet, these a ...

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Homilies 7 Jun 2020

The Most Holy Trinity 2020

La Planète des singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes, is a science fiction novel written by French author Pierr ...

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Homilies 31 May 2020

Pentecost Sunday 2020

Over the past few weeks, I have received several letters from people requesting that I note in the baptismal register th ...

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Homilies 5 May 2020

Fourth Sunday of Easter

In October this year, we will mark the 10th anniversary of the canonisation of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop. She is ...

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Homilies 28 Apr 2020

Third Sunday of Easter

Life as we know it is not as we knew it. At least that is what some are saying. To be sure, our circumstances of life ...

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Homilies 25 Apr 2020

ANZAC Day Mass 2020

At Terrigal, on the Central Coast in our Diocese, there is a beautiful War Memorial on the foreshore. On the side of th ...

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Homilies 20 Apr 2020

Centenary celebration of the laying of the Foundation Stone

By modern Australian standards, 100 years is a relatively long period of time. In the Church, where we measure history ...

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Homilies 16 Apr 2020

Ordination to the Priesthood - Rev Paul Tran Van Duong SDS

On the morning of 1 November 1946, Karol Wojtyła, the sole candidate for Ordination that day, made his way to the Archbi ...

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