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Homily for ANZAC Day Mass 2014
25 April 2014On this enormous island, with its endless coasts and waters, and in this most urbanised of all cultures, the beach occupies a very important place in the Australian psyche, not just physically but also symbolically. We can even speak in Australia of there... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily from Easter Sunday Mass 2014
20 April 2014Just recently I was on pilgrimage in the Holy Land and yet again I was struck by the topography of Jerusalem, the Holy City. By the topography I mean the landscape. It really is a city made not exactly for mountain goats, but for those with sturdy legs,... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Mass of the Last Supper - Holy Thursday 2014
17 April 2014In the middle of St Peter's square in Rome, there stands a great obelisk. It about four and half thousand years old and it originally stood in the temple of the sun in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis. But it was bought to Rome by the dreadful Emperor... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily at the funeral Mass for Bishop Michael Putney
7 April 2014In the dark before dawn on a Friday in Lent, Michael Ernest Putney, fifth Bishop of Townsville, slipped peacefully into eternity. He became the first Bishop of the See to die in office. Terence McGuire died as Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn; Hugh... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
1 September 2013In recent days I have written a pastoral letter as bishops tend to do from time to time; a letter to the entire community of the Archdiocese, as we move towards the end what I have called in the letter, the year of grace and faith. We have been journeying... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Feast of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop
8 August 2013It's all right for Jesus to say 'I'm telling you not to worry about your life'. It wasn't quite so straightforward for the woman who we celebrate this morning. She had plenty to worry about and she had a heap of anxieties, not least of which was fighting... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary time
14 July 2013In the famous story that we have just heard the priest and the Levite walk on the other side, turning their gaze away from the one lying in the ditch. They've got a bad press down through the ages but I can tell you this morning that they were not bad... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
7 July 2013In the world that Jesus knew, and even still in the middle east, hospitality is one of the human beings most solemn duties. In part this was because hospitality meant and still means survival in the desert. But even in cities and villages, hospitality... - Author: Archbishop Mark's HomiliesJust recently I did a media interview and the interviewer made one of those tired old claims that are often made and that is that the Catholic Church never changes. I countered by saying in fact the Catholic Church is changing all the time. The interviewer...
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Homily for Mass Commissioning WYD 2013 Pilgrims
16 June 2013For some time I lived in the middle-east, many years ago before I ever came to Brisbane. Living in that world I learnt what a solemn, indeed urgent, obligation hospitality is in those cultures. What is true now in that part of the world was certainly...