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Homily for the Multicultural Mass 2015
30 August 2015Archbishop Mark Coleridge's homily from the 2015 Multicultural Mass. We hear this afternoon of the letter from St James; now St James was the leader of the Church in Jerusalem, which was at the time the mother church. He says to us that we have been made... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for the Youth and Vocations Expo Mass 2015
2 August 2015Once they set forth from the land of Egypt, the house of their slavery, the chosen people show themselves to be a resounding bunch of whingers. They leave Egypt and they head for the Red Sea. Then they hear the thundering of Pharaoh's Army coming to get... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for the Youth and Vocations Expo Mass 2015
2 August 2015Once they set forth from the land of Egypt, the house of their slavery, the chosen people show themselves to be a resounding bunch of whingers. They leave Egypt and they head for the Red Sea. Then they hear the thundering of Pharaoh's Army coming to get... - Author: Archbishop Mark's HomiliesEarly in life they would have seemed two ordinary enough young Jewish men - one a budding business man, the other a promising rabbinic scholar. One had been born in far-flung Galilee and settled on the shore of the Lake; the other had been born in the...
- Author: Archbishop Mark's HomiliesEarly in life they would have seemed two ordinary enough young Jewish men - one a budding business man, the other a promising rabbinic scholar. One had been born in far-flung Galilee and settled on the shore of the Lake; the other had been born in the...
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Homily for Trinity Sunday
31 May 2015Truth is often stranger than fiction and that is certainly true when it comes to God. When the sense of the divine first glimmered in the human heart long ago we concocted for ourselves a god, more or less, in our own image and likeness. This was a God... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
Homily for Trinity Sunday
31 May 2015Truth is often stranger than fiction and that is certainly true when it comes to God. When the sense of the divine first glimmered in the human heart long ago we concocted for ourselves a god, more or less, in our own image and likeness. This was a God... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Homilies
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...