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Apr 5, 20224 min read
Homily for Third Sunday, Lent, Year C, 2022
Our Gospel today highlights for us a number of false judgments, a type we are all familiar with. The people are judging other people over...
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Mar 17, 20224 min read
Homily for Second Sunday of Lent, Year C, 2022
Today we have St Luke’s version of the Transfiguration. It has several interesting elements that can help us understand the time of Lent....
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Feb 28, 20224 min read
Homily for Eighth Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022
I had a homily prepared to look at the question of judgment, and the strange relationship between our first reading and our gospel....
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Feb 22, 20224 min read
Homily for Seventh Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022
In the last few months I have discovered a website called the Symbolic world and its creator, a bloke called Jonathan Pageau. He is a...
St Mary's
Feb 13, 20223 min read
Homily for 13 February 2022 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Dcn Jim Curtain
Who do we trust? This year there will be a federal election, and I’m pretty sure all those standing in that election will be telling us...
St Mary's
Feb 13, 20224 min read
Homily for the Fifth Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022
Our readings this week all follow a similar pattern. The three readings deal with the notion of vocation. As you probably all know, I am...
St Mary's
Feb 13, 20223 min read
Homily for Third Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022
Today we have wonderful readings that speak to the creative force of the Word of God. In the first reading, the Word of God forming a...
St Mary's
Jan 18, 20224 min read
Homily for Second Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022
Today we have heard the final of the three gospels that traditionally refer to the Epiphany: the visit of the Magi, the Baptism of the...
St Mary's
Jan 11, 20224 min read
Homily for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Year C, 2022
Reading the news on COVID these days, I thought it was a case of ‘here we go again. But then I began to wonder what that even means. Is...
St Mary's
Jan 11, 20223 min read
Homily for Solemnity of the Epiphany, Year C, 2022
This week we celebrate the Solemnity of the Epiphany. Next week, we celebrate that of the Baptism of the Lord. Traditionally, these...
St Mary's
Dec 31, 20213 min read
Christmas Homily 2021
Tonight/Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord. Our God has come in the flesh. The One who holds all things in the palm of his hand has...
St Mary's
Dec 22, 20214 min read
Homily for Fourth Sunday Advent, Year C, 2021
We’ve reached the final Sunday in Advent. Only a few sleeps to go. School has finished. We have our parish reconciliation night Tuesday....
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Dec 15, 20214 min read
Homily for Third Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2021
Today is Gaudete Sunday. The name comes from the Latin word for rejoice which we find in today’s entrance antiphon, which itself comes...
St Mary's
Dec 9, 20213 min read
Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, 2021
What are we celebrating today? The theologian Fr Louis Bouyer says we celebrate: ‘that the grace of God which, since the Fall, never...
St Mary's
Dec 8, 20214 min read
Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2021
Today our gospel invites us to consider the role of prophecy in helping us to prepare for the coming of Christ. This invitation comes in...
St Mary's
Nov 30, 20214 min read
First Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2021
It’s worth seeing our opening prayer as the context for our readings today. This is usually the case on Sundays, but it seems especially...
St Mary's
Nov 30, 20214 min read
Homily for the Solemnity of Christ the King, Year B, 2021
Today two feast days coincide. We celebrate primarily the Solemnity of Christ the King, However, we also have another feast, one that is...
St Mary's
Nov 17, 20214 min read
Homily for 33rd Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2021
We always know that we are coming to the end of the liturgical year when the readings start dealing with the end of time generally. The...
St Mary's
Nov 9, 20213 min read
Homily for 7 November 2021 32nd Sunday of the Ordinary time - Dcn Jim Curtain
First of all, welcome back. It is wonderful to see you all here, a community to worship and pray with. Thank you for your support through...
St Mary's
Nov 9, 20214 min read
Homily for 31st Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2021
What’s the most important thing in your life? What’s the one call you would never ignore? For some people, the most important thing in...
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