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- Author: Archbishop Mark's HomiliesThis nameless woman, from Samaria, we're told she comes to the well. Now there could be nothing more ordinary than a well. In that part of the world, at that time, every town and every village had a well. There was nothing unusual about it. Everyone,...
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Homily at the Mass celebrating 75 years of Holy Spirit Seminary
6 November 2016Each of us is here today because, in some way or other, we're part of the story of the seminary that's been on Beehive Hill at Banyo for most of 75 years. We have five former Rectors and one currently serving. We have former and present members of staff,... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for the Annual Catholic Campaign 2016
12 September 2016In this Year of Mercy we see more clearly than ever that mercy isn't passive but active. It's not a matter of waiting for those who need mercy to come to us. We have to go out in search of them, wherever and whoever they may be. In the Gospel we've just... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
26 July 2016In the story that we have heard from the book of Genesis this morning, our father in faith Abraham shows himself to be a God-botherer in no small measure. He will not let up. A bit like the character we met in the Gospel story who keeps banging on the... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
12 July 2016Down through the centuries these two men, the priest and the Levite have got a very bad press. Some of it perhaps was justified but really they weren't bad men, as the bad press would suggest. I suspect without knowing much about them they were in fact... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for the ANZAC Day Mass
26 April 2016Australia can be the land of the great forgetting. Many came to these distant shores in order to forget - to wipe from their mind the memory of war, persecution, poverty. They never spoke much of what they left behind; their stories usually went with... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Launch of Project Compassion 2016
9 February 2016Just last week I was in the Philippines for the first time, down in Cebu in the middle of the country. In some ways it is another planet compared to anything we know here in Brisbane. One of the things that was seriously confronting was the kind of poverty... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Christmas Homily 2015
24 December 2015Archbishop Mark Coleridge's homily from the Midnight Mass, Cathedral of St Stephen, Christmas 2015 Each of us has made a journey of some kind to be here tonight - some from near, some from far. But it's not just us, because the Christmas story is filled... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Christmas Homily 2015
24 December 2015Archbishop Mark Coleridge's homily from the Midnight Mass, Cathedral of St Stephen, Christmas 2015 Each of us has made a journey of some kind to be here tonight - some from near, some from far. But it's not just us, because the Christmas story is filled... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for December 13, 2015 (Gaudete Sunday)
17 December 2015As we approach the celebration of Christmas the world looks more than usually a mess. We have the spectre of terrorism, the refugee crisis, climate change and all the challenges it presents, economic woes, political turmoil here, there and just about...