Liturgies

Homily St Mary’s South Brisbane February 21-22 2015 Our readings today relate to many things- cleaning the waters, children playing, light of the world, washing of eyes and the authorities and there is another element...

Actor, comedian and writer George Burns whose career successfully spanned Vaudeville, film, radio and television died age 100 in 1996. George Burns once quipped “The secret of a good homily is to have a good beginning...

Homily AdventDecember 13-14, 2014 First Reading:from Louisa Rebgetz ABC Oct 2014 A baby born to an asylum seeker in Brisbane is not entitled to apply for a protection visa, a Federal Circuit Court judge has ruled....

Here we are a week out from the G20. We are told that it cost the Australian public $500 million dollars to host the G20 Summit in Brisbane. Wow. And we didn’t even get to see our...

  This week we have had our fill of terrorism-related stories in the media, with an emphasis and aim of increasing our fears and vigilance as a nation. This heightened fear and suspicion lead in some...

Today’s Gospel is probably one of the most important pieces of scripture in the entire Bible. It states that after loving God, to love our neighbour as ourselves. The importance of loving ourselves cannot be over...

Creating Our Amazing Future. DEVELOPING YOUR RESILIENCE Can I please ask: Who in this room has ever had a problem??! Strangely enough, there is some merit in having problems. They help you to define your character. They...

    What I want to share with you today is a little about the Politics of Religion. A priest was being honoured at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician...

We must all learn to live together as brothers and sisters or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in a single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And...

Let me begin by bringing greetings from the Christian community in Palestine, and especially those communities with which I am most familiar: St Luke’s Anglican Church in Haifa and the Sabeel community in Nazareth. This...