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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... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Pentecost Sunday 2013
19 May 2013In the Gospel story that we have just heard Jesus does two things. The first thing he does is he walks through a locked door, which is not a bad effort. They are gathered in an upper room, the apostles, because they are terrified and they have every reason... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily on the Feast of the Ascension
12 May 2013In the gospel we have just heard there is something that is very odd. Jesus, we are told, withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven, but then we are told they went back to Jerusalem full of joy. It's almost as if there's a sense of "good riddance,... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily from 5th Sunday of Easter
28 April 2013"When Judas had gone..." These are the words that frame the words of Christ that we have heard. "When Judas had gone..." He had left the supper table, closed the door behind him and walked out into the darkness. "When Judas had gone..." out into the darkness... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Easter Sunday Mass - Day of the Lord's Rising
31 March 2013In the story that we've just heard there is a lot of confusion as there is in all the Easter Gospel stories. When they arrive at the tomb and meet the heavenly messengers, the women don't know what to think, and I don't blame them. And when the apostles... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily at Mass celebrating 50 years of Catholic Relgious Australia, Queensland (CRA-Qld)
10 March 2013As the deacon began to read the unforgettable story you've just heard I bet you were probably saying it's the prodigal son. And of course that is the name it has been traditionally been accorded - the prodigal son. But the name is problematic on a couple... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily from Installation Mass for new Dean of the Cathedral
27 January 2013My predecessor, Archbishop James Duhig, had his heart set upon building a Cathedral other than this one. He wanted to build a massive Cathedral that would have been the Cathedral of the Holy Name, but I have to say I'm very glad he didn't do it. It's... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Archbishop Coleridge's Homily at Christmas Masses
25 December 2012In the middle of the night, we gather to celebrate the birth of the child, our child. And rightly so, because the child is always born in the darkness, even at the heart of darkness. We don't know exactly at what time Jesus was born, but tradition has... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily at Mass celebrating the Unification of the two Australian Provinces of the Marist Brothers
8 December 2012It is tempting to think that Saint Marcellin Champagnat would be astonished at the growth of the Institute he founded as the Little Brothers of Mary in 1817. But that is unlikely to be true, given his reply to a bishop seeking Brothers for his diocese... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily at the Priestly Ordination of Deacon Lucius Edomobi
7 December 2012We're used to hearing of "the word of the day", but we hear less of "the word of the night". But the word of tonight is Fiat...and I don't mean an Italian automobile. We've heard the word from the lips of Mary as she responds to Gabriel's extraordinary...