- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneAdvent season is a time of preparation for the Solemnities of Christmas. It is a time of spiritual renewal, a chance to direct our hearts and minds to receive the...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Lucius Edomobi for the First Sunday of Advent 2023. "Let us not allow this special grace that Advent brings to pass us by."
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr John Fowles for the Feast of Christ the King 2023. "When we serve others, we serve Christ our King. In serving Christ in our neighbours, we draw...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Isaac Falzon for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Our life is a path of learning to wake up and be present to the now."
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Regimon Gervasis for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Today the door of salvation is wide open in Christ. Anyone, anywhere, anytime can go in...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Saldie Resolado OSA for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Humility is a willingness to share the gifts we have been given, not out of...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Jason Middleton for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "God is inviting us to share in the fullness of life, of purpose, and fulfilment in...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Peter Dillon for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "God is in control, not human beings. We don't need to try and manipulate God or...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Elizabeth Harrington for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "We too are invited to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We just need to accept the invitation...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Gerard Lai for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "May we continue to look for ways to refine our lives and accept the voice of...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Peter Pellicaan for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "We may call ourselves Catholic. We may say all the responses in the liturgy. But do...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Paul Jensen for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Where in your life do you think things are unfair? Do you know the facts? Are you...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Leo Burke for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "I think it's true to say two of the hardest things to say in the world...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Adrian Sharp for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "True Christian love is not an emotion or a feeling. It is something we choose to...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Kevin Smith for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Unless we are united with Christ in this journey then suffering becomes even more meaningless and...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Tom Elich for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "We can never know the mind of God, but we can stand in awe before the...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Chad Hargrave for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "We must, as Isaiah says, “have a care for justice and act with integrity”, seeing the...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Anthony Mellor for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "This Sunday, we hear a tender, encouraging image to contemplate. When it all goes wrong and...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Minje Kim for the Feast of the Transfiguration 2023. "Can you feel the transfigured Jesus and his eagerness today to meet us, to give courage and...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Colleen Tracey for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Having a sense of purpose gives us a spiritual compass to orient our lives and the treasure...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr John Echewodo for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "In life when things are not going as planned the human capacity to wait patiently without...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Andrew O'Brien for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "We, the seeds, have been planted in the rich soil of the church. And if we...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Joseph Kanatt MCBS for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "We can experience in our daily life all kinds of burdens and hardships. At this...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Bob Harwood for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Jesus revealed a unity in himself which gathers all people to God as God’s children."
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Raju Joseph CMI for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Today we have a choice to make. A choice to live in fear or a...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Paul Kelly for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "We are God’s people, not because we have earned it, not because we deserve it, not...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Dan Ryan for the Feast of Corpus Christi 2023. "The challenge for us today is to understand the Eucharist we receive is not a symbol, it...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Josh Whitehead for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity 2023. "God entered human experience in the person of Jesus so that we could begin to...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Brendan Gormley for Pentecost Sunday 2023. "The Spirit helps us to know and love Jesus and the Father; the Spirit consoles and strengthens and forgives; the...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Boni Buahendri SVD for the The Ascension of the Lord 2023. "We need to ask for the gift of strong faith in every difficult moment. Faith...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Adrian Sharp for the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2023. "Our Lord’s daily return to us upon the altar is a constant fulfilment of His promise, I...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe formation of a priest normally takes 7 years. Although it’s a long time out of the family home, surely not enough for a mother to forget all the things...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Wrex Woolnough for the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2023. "To find the way, we have to work together, trusting in each others’ wisdom and keeping our...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Russ Nelson for the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2023. "Founded on faith, enriched by a good prayer life, we need to understand what Jesus is saying...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Gary Stone for the Third Sunday of Easter 2023. "May we give our lives, to offering people in the world around us, a better and more...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Joseph Vu SVD for the Second Sunday of Easter 2023. "May the hearts of each of us, right now, be open to love God and to...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Archbishop Mark Coleridge for Easter Sunday 2023. "You and I and indeed the whole world needs a saviour, not just a wise teacher, or a miracle worker,...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Anne Frawley-Mangan for Palm Sunday (Passion Sunday) 2023. "God is passionately in love with us and instead of us needing to spill blood to get to God,...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe 'Seven Penitential Psalms' continues with Anne Frawley-Mangan reflecting on Psalm 143. Listen or download the audio file, or watch the video below: Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Dan Redhead for the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2023. "We know Jesus to be our Lord and Saviour, and that He is the key to eternal...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe 'Seven Penitential Psalms' continues with Cynthia Rowan reflecting on Psalm 130. Listen or download the audio file, or watch the video below: Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Saji George for the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2023. "In this Lenten season, let us learn more about Jesus and God our father. It will open...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe 'Seven Penitential Psalms' continues with Colleen Tracey reflecting on Psalm 102. Listen or download the audio file, or watch the video below: Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Enoch Iheme for the Third Sunday of Lent 2023. "Our Lenten observances of fasting, prayer and alms giving should be our way of bearing in our...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe 'Seven Penitential Psalms' continues with Clare Schwantes reflecting on Psalm 51. Listen or download the audio file, or watch the video below: Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Peter Brannelly for the Second Sunday of Lent 2023. "It is upon reflection, that we grasp the transfiguring experiences in which something ordinary and everyday suddenly...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneDuring times when we wish to express repentance and especially during Lent, it is customary to pray the 'Seven Penitential Psalms' and the Songs of the Suffering Servant. Next in...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Michael Grace for the First Sunday of Lent 2023. "If we do find ourselves tempted, we must lift our minds to God, recognising that in him...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneWe are disobeying all the rules of cutting back on things in Lent by having this second helping of 'The Seven Penitential Psalms' so soon after the last. There is...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneIn the first of 'The Seven Penitential Psalms' series, we are greeted with Jubilee Catholic Parish's Elizabeth Harrington reflecting on Psalm 6. Listen or download the audio file, or watch...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Francis Belcina OSA for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Loving and forgiving one’s enemy doesn’t mean that we agree to what they’re doing. But...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr John Conway for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "The message of the Kingdom of God is all about being in relationship with one another...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Peter Dillon for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "It might be challenging to look at new ways living our faith, but if we don’t...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Mauro Conte for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "We can only boast in the fact that we belong to God but not because we...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Rafal Rucinski for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "Every day we must strive again to be faithful. This is true repentance and we are...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Steph Rogers for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023. "The Messiah who the Israelites were spending their whole lives waiting for, is here. Jesus Christ is...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Dr Jenny Close for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord 2023. "Epiphany is a prime opportunity to bring home the message about the universal significance...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Bryan Roe for the Feast of Mary Mother of God 2023. "This gospel tells us in a very profound way that Jesus emptied himself of his...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Archbishop Mark Coleridge for the Nativity of the Lord 2022. "In Christmas we celebrate the monumental fact that God comes to us, becomes one of us, in...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Bernie Gallagher for the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2022. "Saint Joseph is a model for us of including God in our lives, especially in times of...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr El Louie Jimenez for the Third Sunday of Advent 2022. "We may have a thousand reasons to be sad, but we need only one reason to...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Tom Elich for the Second Sunday of Advent 2022. "As Christ walks beside us, so too we, taking on the mind and heart of Christ, walk...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Bishop Ken Howell for the First Sunday of Advent 2022. "We take Saint Paul’s encouragement to live as decent people, basking in the daylight of what faith...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Colleen Tracey for the Feast of Christ the King 2022. "The actions of the good thief reaching out to Jesus in faith, reminds us that no matter...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr John Echewodo for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "We are often preoccupied with trying to make a living while we hardly have time to...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Josh Whitehead for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "The Good News challenge for each of us in today’s Gospel is to seek encounter with...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Gary Stone for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Jesus greatest hope for us, is that we would love our neighbours, in actions and in...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Adrian Farrelly for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Religious people do think for themselves and have a deep sense of their self-worth and the...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Wrex Woolnough for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Prayer is not like lining up at McDonald’s drive-thru, where you shout out your order to...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Joseph Kanatt MCBS for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Showing gratitude to God is very important in our Christian journey. There is no amount...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Raju Joseph CMI for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Jesus tells us that the quantity of faith we have is not important. What matters...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Dang Nguyen OSA for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Instead of filling our lives with ourselves, we need to make room for love and...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Bob Harwood for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "How astute, that the Son of God should wipe out the debts of humanity and, although...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Saji George for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Jesus is waiting there to embrace me and you this is the time, come and enjoy...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Dan Redhead for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "We are left with no doubt in our minds that as His disciples, we must be...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Paul Kelly for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "God is generous and giving, Our Lord is the most important person to ever walk the...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Russ Nelson for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "The call to discipleship is a call to a life of virtue, living out the positive...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Peter Brannelly for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "We hear the voices and perhaps we are the voice calling people’s attention to the things...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Dan Ryan for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Jesus urges us many times in the Gospel to not be afraid. We need to trust...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Enoch Iheme for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "In our natural tendency to accumulate and to fill our emptiness with things that will eventual...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Chad Hargrave for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Only out of the security of knowing how deeply God loves us can we truly love...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Peter Dillon for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "We have Martha and Mary giving us an example what it means to love God with...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Michael Grace for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "Pope Francis has often called upon the church to be more inclusive. In doing so, he...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Tom Elich for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "We stand together with First Nations peoples in the Church, asking the Holy Spirit of the...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr John Conway for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022. "We have all been called and we have been gifted to become disciples of God’s Kingdom...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Mauro Conte for the Feast of Corpus Christi 2022. "When we consume the Eucharist, the sacrament of the Lord’s body and blood, Jesus literally becomes part...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Sr Kari Hatherell osu for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity 2022. "Let us allow God to invite us once again into the Trinity of love...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Reflection by Steph Rogers for Pentecost Sunday 2022. "Have you shared the good news recently? Through your baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit you have what it takes. What...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Bryan Roe for the The Ascension of the Lord 2022. "As people of faith we need to spread the Good News of Jesus, the incredible love...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Terry Nueva for the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2022. "For the sum and the summit of all tradition, is this, that we love God and one...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Mario Debattista OFM for the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2022. "Jesus loves as he said his Heavenly Father loves; by allowing his rain to fall and...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Rafal Rucinski for the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2022. "The challenge for us as followers of Christ is to resolve conflicts in the way that Christ...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Dcn Adam Walk for the Third Sunday of Easter 2022. "God is generous. He gives to believers gifts and blessings with the same generosity with which he...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Rev Dr Peter Devenish-Meares for the Second Sunday of Easter 2022. "Jesus offers us his abundant peace, and send’s God’s spirit to go with us. Right into...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Archbishop Mark Coleridge for Easter Sunday 2022. "Easter is always and everywhere a celebration of life beyond death; hope beyond hopelessness and light that no darkness can...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Jack Ho for Palm Sunday 2022. "At every twist and turn, at every cliff-hanger, God will show us an extraordinary love and mighty power. So sit...
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Archbishop Mark’s Lenten Reflections 2022 - Episode 5: Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery
31 Mar 2022Archbishop Mark Coleridge ends his reflections on the gospels of Lent 2022 by analysing one of the best-known stories and what it tells us about dealing with sin. Archbishop Mark's... - Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Fr Mark Franklin for the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2022. "Only when we let God’s love, as seen in Christ, to embrace and change our heart, can...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneArchbishop Mark Coleridge reflects on the Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Lent: The Parable of the Prodigal Son which he describes as “the most extraordinary story - the story...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTwo-Minute Homily by Bishop Tim Norton SVD for the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2022. "The term ‘prodigal son’ has found its way into many areas of life... This Lent, let...
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