Liturgies

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...

What might we say if Malcolm or Bill or Richard were here today? In my dreams I imagine that – and before I say anything I say to them: “I trust that being here at...

Once upon a time, we didn’t call art, art. There was no need to name it. The creation and passing down of stories through dance, singing and painting was as natural and vital a part...

I am not sure how many of you would remember your first brush with the law. Or if any at all. I remember mine. I was about four and half years old and I had a...

Earlier this year we considered how our sacred scripture contributes to our concept of gender equality.  We looked at the Old Testament and at the Gospels.  Today I want to look at what the letters...

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...