Tag: Homily
The most amazing race of all
WYD will nourish you with God's grace so that you can "arise and go with haste" back to your life-race, your life-course with a renewed faith.
Christ saves the lost and adrift
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP Homily. José Salvador Alvarenga is hardly a household name, but perhaps it deserves to be.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: Tend the garden of your souls
Weather charts, soil quality, ploughing, seeding, growth, pests and weeds, first-fruits, harvesting, grain yield (Isa 55:10-11; Ps 64(65); Rom 8:18-23; Mt 13:1-23)—today’s readings are positively horticultural. God is presented as a gardener from the opening pages of the Bible.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: Receiving God like a child
Recently, some MPs joined some young people at the Federal Parliament to launch the ‘Make it 16’ campaign. They were supporting lowering the voting age so teens will be more politically engaged and bring their concerns to government.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: Knowing the Trinity in heart and mind
It’s a scene you could picture on the beach of Bondi or Manly on a summer’s day. A boy is digging a hole in the sand, frantically running backwards and forwards to the water’s edge to fill his little well with a seashell-full of seawater at a time.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: A ‘post-truth’ world?
This is an edited text of the address given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for the Blessing and Opening of Hartford College, Daceyville, on...
Melto D’Moronoyo: Saving blindness, blessed sight
By Deacon Ron Hassarati
We have reached the Healing of the Blind Man which, in the Maronite Liturgical tradition, is the last Sunday before Hosanna...
On this Plenary pilgrimage, humility and gratitude will enable us to...
Brothers and Sisters in Jesus-Christ our Lord,
“Who, then, is the faithful and wise slave whom his master has put in charge of his household...
Plenary: return the Church to Jesus and Jesus to the Church
On 21 November 1964, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, known to most of us as Lumen Gentium, was officially promulgated as one of...
Simcha Fisher: Does it matter if a priest makes up his...
What's important about a homily?
Would it bother you if your priest delivered ready-made sermons, written by someone else? A lot of Catholics say they...
Australia’s mother: Our Lady, Help of Christians
We pray she’ll make us more like her, beautiful and colourful artworks, worldly and other-worldly, different yet like her in our openness to God, our active service of others, our pondering of what’s good, our fidelity to the end.
The Ascension: He has returned to heaven – and He is...
Why are you guys gawking at the heavens? Jesus has ascended but He will return to take you with Him
