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Aug 31, 20215 min read

Homily for 22nd Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2021

In our first reading last week, we had Moses asking the people, who is your God? The Lord? Or the gods of the surrounding people? The...

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Aug 21, 20214 min read

21st Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2021

This year is year B in our liturgical cycle and so we have readings from the gospel of Mark. But because the gospel of Mark is shorter...

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Aug 14, 20214 min read

Homily for Solemnity of the Assumption of our Lady, 2021

Today, I would like to set some homework first. I’d like to encourage everyone today to read a certain poem out loud. That poem is called...

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Aug 9, 20215 min read

Homily for Solemnity of Mary of the Cross Mackillop, 2021

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of St Mary of the Cross Mackillop. We also bring to an end National Vocations Awareness Week; though, I...

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Aug 3, 20212 min read

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 August 2021 - Dcn Jim Curtain

What do we want from Jesus? Is it simply a free feed, or to see a special effects show? Is it to be part of a mob, a crowd, where we tell...

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Jul 24, 20214 min read

Homily for 17th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2021

Over the next few Sundays, we focus on chapter 6 of John’s gospel, the famous section on the Eucharist. Today, however, I would like to...

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Jul 18, 20213 min read

Homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 18 July 2021 (Dcn Jim Curtain)

In every proper Catholic mass, anywhere in the world, two people are prayed for by name in the Eucharistic prayer. There’s the Pope, and...

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Jul 13, 20214 min read

Homily for 15th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2021

The mission to preach repentance. The mission to preach the Good News. How do we fulfil this command of Christ? Our readings today seem...

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Jul 13, 20214 min read

Lay Leaders Gathering (22/5/21). Report to the parishes of St Mary’s and St Colman's

At the invitation of their parish priests, 170 lay people attended a gathering at the Veneto Club, Bulleen, on May 22 to hear proposals...

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Jul 6, 20214 min read

Homily for 14th Sunday of Ordinary time, Year B, 2021

The last few weeks we have looked in different ways at how it is so easy to get our relationship with God round the wrong way. That is:...

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Jul 2, 20214 min read

Homily for 13th Sunday Ordinary Time, Yr B, 2021

It is interesting to read this week’s gospel with last week’s readings. We might remember that last week, we had Job as our first reading...

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Jun 24, 20214 min read

Homily for 12th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2021

What’s going on in our gospel today? What are the disciples trying to do? Clearly the disciples feared for their safety. They would have...

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Jun 13, 20215 min read

Homily for 11th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B

I have mentioned a number of times before the advice a friend gave me on reading Jesus’s parables: look for what doesn’t make sense....

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Jun 8, 20212 min read

Homily for Corpus Christi 6 June 2021 - Dcn Jim Curtain

A few years ago, back when foreign travel was possible, Vicki and I visited India. One Sunday we were in Goa, which has a strong Catholic...

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May 26, 20214 min read

Pentecost, 2021

Today we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost. In a special way this feast calls to mind the power and working of the Holy Spirit in...