Liturgies

Today I am going to talk about choice and it will be centred around the true stories of two men, the choices they made and the consequences it had on their lives and the lives...

  Tonight we celebrate the great act of love and teaching of Jesus. He knows his time is nearing an end. Time is precious. There is a need to dramatize and get the message home more clearly...

In our first reading from the Pope’s Encyclical letter ‘Laudato Si ‘ (On Care For Our Home) the Pope does what the mystical saint St Francis, (the name which the present Pope took for his...

I got a new understanding of the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem by becoming friends with a donkey. As many of you will have experienced, Peter has a rainforest block with cabins in Numinbah Valley....

This not a prescriptive homily, giving answers to the questions raised. It is raising issues for a discussion we need to have. Recently during the Republican Primaries campaign Pope Francis responded to Donald Trump's proposal to...

Birth and death are the two most momentous events in anyone’s life, yet we don’t consciously remember either of them. Both are for others to remember. Like most mothers, my mother remembered everything about my birth....

 Today, January is almost over. “How’s your New Year’s Resolution going?” Someone once asked. “What exactly is a New Year’s Resolution?” some wise crack responded. “It’s a TO DO LIST for the first week of January”. Or another piece...

  The previous Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, had a reputation of being a misogynist. The famous speech by Julia Gillard, where she begins: “I will not be lectured about sexism by this man…” and she continued...

“Peeling Onions” Or “The Problems Progressives Have with Prayer” By Bob Aldred St Mary's in Exile has given us the freedom to exercise intellectual integrity. To bring under the microscope all that we have been taught about...

My friends, like all of you I was horrified and sickened by the recent events in Paris last weekend. Like many, we wondered why the world is such a violent brutal place, seemingly devoid of love...