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Homily at the Anzac Day Mass
The Cathedral of St Stephen "Church bells pealed, long separated family members and friends fell into each other's arms and complete strangers embraced": so wrote the New York Times in...
Read MoreHomily for Easter Sunday Mass 2022
Christianity can be described in many different ways. In the first of his Encyclical Letters, way back in 1979, the then new Pope John Paul II offered one remarkable description....
Read MoreHomily for Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper
Christianity has been an undeniably creative power through history, but not always. At times Christianity has identified not with the victim but against the victim or with the victimiser. The...
Read MoreHomily at the Chrism Mass
The Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane Olives are everywhere in the Mediterranean world, and the human communities which gather round the Middle Sea float on a sea of olive oil....
Read MoreHomily at the Episcopal Ordination of the Reverend Timothy Norton SVD
The Cathedral of St Stephen 22 February 2022 The appointment of Tim Norton as bishop was a surprise to many, including himself. So too was the prophet Jeremiah's call, not...
Read MoreHomily from Installation Mass for ACU Chancellor Hon Justice Martin Daubney AM
It is not by chance that we install the fifth Chancellor of Australian Catholic University on this day, 11 February. It happens to be the feast of Our Lady of...
Read MoreHomily for Christmas 2021
THE CATHEDRAL OF ST STEPHEN A great promise had been made to Mary by the angel Gabriel: she was to be the mother of the royal messiah - she a...
Read MoreArchbishop Mark's Homily from the Ordination to Diaconate of Ernesto Villalba and Adrian Elridge
Last Saturday, Archbishop Mark ordained two deacons, Ernesto Villalba and Adrian Elridge at the Cathedral of St Stephen. In his homily, the Archbishop mentioned, "Deacons are called and graced by...
Read MoreHomily from the All Souls Day Mass 2021
All Souls Day responds to one of life's deep experiences. When those we love die, the love lives on and becomes the prayer of this day, reaching out to embrace...
Read MoreHomily at the Launch of Synod 2021-23
THE CATHEDRAL OF ST STEPHEN, BRISBANE Jeremiah 31:7-9; Hebrews 5:1-6; Mark 10:46-52 Through the two millennia of Christian history there have been 2 Ecumenical Councils, roughly one every century, though...
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