Liturgies

Love and Fear (Michael Leunig) There are only two feelings                  Love and Fear There are only two languages              Love and Fear There are only two activities                Love and Fear There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two...

Last week I had the good fortune of being able to get away for a retreat. On the retreat of the many stories that the teachers related one that stays with me is about the...

Hello everyone; the homily today is for my sister, Heather Jan Easton and the repercussions her death has had on my family for the past forty-two years. It was 10 December 1974 when Heather fell...

[audio mp3="http://stmaryssouthbrisbane.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Homily-Adele-Rice.mp3"][/audio] When introducing last year's Australian Bishops' social justice statement, Bishop Vincent Long, himself a refugee, and a boat person, wrote: Australia rose to the challenge in the past with its generous embrace of migrants and...

'I found within my narrative interviews with parishioners that there is such a vast plurality of beliefs within the community that the uniting factor is practice (what you do is more important than what you...

At a wedding ceremony, the pastor asked if anyone had anything to say concerning the union of the bride and groom. It was their time to stand up and talk, or forever hold their peace....

Peter agreed to launch my poetry collection on the condition that I would give a homily. Not being very keen, I had come up with several excuses - but I’ve run out. So here I...

[audio mp3="http://stmaryssouthbrisbane.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Homily-Terry-re-NADOC.mp3"][/audio] We reflect on the words of Celeste Liddle an Arrernte woman and a National Indigenous Organiser. "The legal fiction of Terra Nullius is the basis on which this country was founded and, despite having been long overturned, it...

[audio mp3="http://stmaryssouthbrisbane.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Homily-Susan-Ientile.mp3"][/audio] As I look back at our story I think the importance of our catholic faith has been the fellowship it has given us. The friendships we have formed the communities we have belonged to....

My parents’ schools had them memorize poems and great works. For me it was mostly dates and places. Today memory has been outsourced to Google. We are slowly but surely “outsourcing the human mind.” First...