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Homily at the closing Mass of the Archdiocesan Synod

As we come to this point of rest on the synodal journey, we go to the mountains. The first is Mount Nebo where, after the flight from Egypt and the...

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Homily at the Opening Mass of the First Assembly of SYNOD24

The theme of this Synod, "I am making all things new", are words of the Risen Christ taken from the Book of Revelation (21:5). They were spoken into a world...

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Homily on the Death of Fr Gerald O'Collins SJ

I first met Gerald O'Collins in 1971 when I was a seminarian at Corpus Christi College Glen Waverley in what was then called first year Theology and he was a...

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Homily on the Solemnity of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop

Mary MacKillop was by all accounts a peaceful woman who, it has been said, "respected and loved people even when they were at their worst". Yet she was no stranger...

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Homily at the Sesquicentenary Celebration of the Cathedral of St Stephen

It was Winston Churchill who said, "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us". He echoed the words of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, "We create our buildings and then...

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Archbishop Coleridge Anzac Day homily 2024

Warfare has changed dramatically in the span of time we remember on Anzac Day. Perhaps the greatest emblem of that change was the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima...

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Homily at the Easter Vigil

A large stone was rolled across the entrance of the new rock-hewn tomb where Jesus was laid. It was the custom to seal a tomb of this kind, not only...

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Homily on Good Friday

In his letters, the Apostle Paul speaks of the two Adams - the first Adam of the beginning and the second Adam, Jesus, of the new beginning, the man of...

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Homily for the Mass of the Lord's Supper

In the story we tell tonight and through these Easter days, there's a lot of movement up and down, especially by Jesus. He goes up to Jerusalem for the Passover;...

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Homily at the Chrism Mass

The Cathedral of St Stephen This evening we are drawn deep into the mystic triad of the Mediterranean world - the grain, the grape and the olive. The grain and...

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