Dean’s Blog - 2019
Homily for 29 December
God is perfecting knowing, loving, joy in the communion of Father, Son and Spirit. There is no lack, no need, no imperfection in God. And yet the Son of God ...
Homily for 15 December (Silver Jubilee Mass)
At the closing Mass of the Australian Catholic Youth Festival the Archbishop talked about questions in the Gospel. Questions which put to Jesus and put by Jesus to others. The ...
Homily for 17 November
In the Gospel the disciples were commenting on the splendour of the temple and it was, by all accounts, splendid – grander even than our beautiful Cathedral. It was a ...
Homily for 10 November
Torn tongues, Sadducees, angels, Moses, seven brothers, one wife. Today’s first reading and Gospel have many elements which need a little teasing out. The hope in a resurrection of the dead ...
Homily for 27 October
‘God is in the facts and the facts are kind.’ I think I find it hardest to pray when I do not want to accept what I perceive as a hard ...
Homily for 13 October
St Augustine is one of the great minds of the Latin West. He went awry in one or two things: he thought that people were either predestined for salvation or ...
Homily for 25 August
Jesus saves. He fulfils the prophecy of Isaiah: ‘I am coming to gather the nations of every language.’ As the Lord himself says in the Gospel: ‘And people from east ...
Homily for 18 August
The events narrated by the first reading from the prophet Jeremiah took place around 2 600 years ago. A little while back, but we listen to them because Jeremiah’s story ...
Homily for 16 June (Trinity Sunday)
I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the complete truth I invite ...
Homily for 26 May
The Lord leaves to makes his home with us in his Spirit. It bespeaks intimacy, but also space. Any relationship is space and intimacy. In the intimate closeness of the ...