33rd Sunday in Ordinary November 15, 2015 Nobody knows the future. “But as for that day or hour, nobody knows it.” Some think that this is a good thing. Others, they might like to know. It doesn’t matter! We do not know. How your exams will pan out and what university you might score is […]
Category: Homily Notes
Homily Points for 32 Sunday in ordinary time
32nd Sunday in Ordinary – Year B Sunday, November 8, 2015 There are many images from the Synod on the “Family in the Contemporary World” that hit the net. One that stood out for me was the image of 264 Bishops plus the Pope, taken from the rear of the aula (hall) where they […]
Homily Points for All Saints day
November 1, 2015 ALL SAINTS – Year B It is no coincidence that this feast shadows that of ALL SOULS day. Today we focus on those whose names we know; those acknowledged by the Church as holy, like unto God, who are with God, in the mystery of a love that we call […]
Homily Points for 30th Sunday in Ordinary
October 25, 2015 Bartimaeus is a desperate person, blind, begging, sitting on a public road and screaming out to passers by. He might be arrested in Melbourne. Or, at least, people are going to pass him by as quickly as they can. He will get no attention from the average person who does […]
Homily Points for Mission Sunday
World Mission Sunday October 18, 2015 Pope Paul VI said that: “A Church that is not missionary is dead”. This is true obviously. “Go and Baptise in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” But he had in mind, what I had in mind in 1978, when […]
Homily Points for 28th Sunday in Ordinary
October 11, 2015 The gospel is about wealth – the kind we find in Australia where material values are prominent in personal life. We all want to do well; to create opportunities for our kids and live the benefits of a free enterprise economy. The stock markets have recently had a downturn but they are […]
Homily Points for 27th Sunday in Ordinary
October 4, 2015 Homily When preparing for this homily, I assumed that I would reflect on the moral problem of ivorce which is so high and climbing in Western societies. Who does not know a marriage breakdown: in the family or among our friends and relatives. (My own sister is twice divorced and my […]
Homily Points for 26th Sunday in Ordinary – Social Justice Sunday 2015
September 27, 2015 HOMILY: This week on social media has been all news of the Pope in Cuba then USA. The address to the combined houses of Congress stood out for me. Early in his speech he said that: “We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism.” The […]
Homily points for 25th Sunday
Homily: We all know the hard work, financial sacrifices and rigorous testing that goes into acquiring an education. Schools are as much knowledge and skills based as they are corridors of cultural enjoyment and physical exercise. Some would argue that they are only incubators for the giant industrial complex of modern society; where value is […]
Homily points for 24th Sunday
HOMILY We are told that God’s ways are not our ways but I have often wondered what that means. I recently commemorated the life of a young man who died in a car crash. As part of the memorial we sang the Salve Regina that includes the words “to thee do we cry poor banished […]