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Homily at Mass of Feast of St Philip Neri
26 May 2015Like all the saints, Filippo di Neri - or Philip Neri as we known him - doesn't quite add up. There's a strangeness about him, a touch of paradox. He didn't and he doesn't fit the conventional categories. Nor does God. Philip's origins were conventional... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Pentecost
24 May 2015On this day of Pentecost we make a fuss about fire. We have the banners in the nave of the Cathedral; the ministers on the sanctuary are wearing fiery red. So Pentecost is about fire. We heard the story of the first Pentecost where the disciples saw what... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for ANZAC Day Mass 2015
25 April 2015We know what happened on this day one hundred years ago at Anzac Cove. The facts have been much reported and photographed. But what's less clear is the meaning of the facts; that's why we have so many different interpretations of what happened. Was it... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily from Easter Sunday Mass 2015
5 April 2015On Good Friday morning, after the Stations of the Cross in the Cathedral, I had an encounter with a lady who had come to the Cathedral to protest, which is of course her right. She was anxious about a number of things in the Church, one of which was sexual... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily at Mass for Archdiocesan Curia
6 February 2015One of the great treasures of the Archdiocese of Brisbane is this precinct, standing as it does right at the heart of the Central Business District, the capital. Thank goodness Archbishop Duhig did not build the Holy Name Cathedral. He's probably turning... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family
28 December 2014Once upon a time, certainly before the rise of the nation state, the family was absolutely fundamental to human life in just about any of its forms. The family was crucial for social welfare because there was no other; also for health care as there were... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily from the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord
25 December 2014The fact is that we don't know exactly when Jesus Christ was born. They didn't keep records back in those days and they wouldn't have known themselves on which day they were born. So why do we celebrate his birth on this particular day, 25 December? To... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Fourth Sunday of Advent
21 December 2014The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary and she conceived by the Holy Spirit" ... So we say day by day in the Angelus. Yet the question is this - when did she conceive? She did conceive in her womb, as Gabriel foretells, and she did give birth to the... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Third Sunday of Advent
14 December 2014When called to give an account of himself, faced with those who say "Who are you?," John the Baptist echoes the prophet Isaiah in describing himself as a voice crying out in the wilderness - "prepare the way of the Lord". The wilderness of which he speaks... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily at Ordination Mass for Stephen Camiolo
8 December 2014Some years ago I was cheeky enough to say to one of my brother Bishops that the Word of God at times was a question, to which he promptly replied "Nonsense"! But tonight in the book of Genesis we have heard some of the great questions placed on the lips...