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Homily for 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time
5 October 2014Sometimes it's said that the church doesn't have to be successful, the church has to be faithful. Now there is some truth in that but there is also a danger that that kind of claim can be a cop out. I guess it depends on what you mean by success. We certainly... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Golden Weddings Anniversary Mass
4 October 2014They say that God has a sense of humour. It would seem to be so given that here today, as we celebrate long years of marriage, the figure which God gives us to interpret your journey, the deeper meaning of your life and its shape, is the figure of Job... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for 50th Anniversary Mass of Caritas
21 September 2014I'm not at all sure what a Fair Pay Commission would make of what we have just heard (in the Gospel). I suspect that they would at least understand the grumbling of those who have copped one denarius after a full days work when the latecomers, who did... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
14 September 2014In the Gospel story that we have just heard we meet the intriguing figure of Nicodemus. Now Nicodemus was really somebody. He was one of the leading Jews and belonged to the leadership group that was called the Sanhedrin but he wanted to meet Jesus. Clearly... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Mass Sunday July 13, 2014
13 July 2014In his teaching style Jesus of Nazareth was in many ways just like all the other rabbis. Yet there are certain points at which the teaching style of Jesus is utterly distinctive. One of those ways is that he takes the simplest, most ordinary and familiar... - Author: Archbishop Mark's HomiliesWay back in 1966 the German Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner wrote a short piece about the priest of the future. What he wrote has turned out to be prophetic. It made an impression on me when I was a seminarian and it still makes an impression upon me, more...
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Homily for Pentecost Sunday 2014
14 June 2014The disciples were cringing behind locked doors and they had good reason to do so. They had seen the Lord executed in the most brutal possible way and they had every reason to believe that they may be next cab off the rank. I don't blame them for locking... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily from Mass for Religious to mark 175th Anniversary of the Sisters of Charity of Australia
31 May 2014The word charity, in contemporary English at least, gets a bad press. We even have an expression like " as cold as charity". Yet, regardless of the bad press, the word charity is absolutely fundamental, not just to this celebration, but to Christianity... - Author: Archbishop Mark's HomiliesOn this fortieth day of the fifty-day Easter festival, we have heard one of the stories of the Risen Lord appearing to his disciples. These stories at the end of three of the Gospels are extraordinary for a number of reasons. Yet one of the strange things...
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Homily for Mass celebrating Archbishop Mark Coleridge's fortieth anniversary of ordination
17 May 2014The 18th of May 1974 was the 54th birthday of the then Archbishop of Krakow, Karol Wojtlya, who later happened to become Pope John Paul II, and in more recent times a saint. That was all back in Poland. In Melbourne it was a cold , misty Saturday morning...