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Fr Brendan’s Homily 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Brendan Reed 24 July 2020 2 Comments

The Pearl of Great Price: She sells everything she owns and buys it. I have a good friend with whom I holiday most years. Sometimes we travel, sometimes new places,…

Fr Trac’s Homily 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Brendan Reed 18 July 2020 No Comments

Living among the weeds. In today’s Gospel Jesus offers three parables, or three different stories to describe the Kingdom of Heaven. He also explains why he speaks to the…

Fr Brendan Reed’s Homily 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)

Brendan Reed 28 June 2020 No Comments

Christ beside me, Christ before, Christ behind me. Today’s Gospel is a commentary on discipleship. The feast days that we have been celebrating have been left behind and we are…

Homily of 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

Trac Nguyen 20 June 2020 No Comments

What are your fears? What are your fears? For sure, any of us can be able to list at least one thing that can be frightening us. Common symptom…

Fr Brendan’s Homily for Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ

Brendan Reed 14 June 2020 No Comments

God feeds us with manna from heaven. Today is the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. This feast accentuates for us the difficulties we have as a Christian…

Father Brendan’s Trinity Sunday Homily

Brendan Reed 6 June 2020 No Comments

Discovering the God of tenderness and compassion Discovering who God is, and what God stands for, and what God wants of us, is no easy task. Sometimes Christians talk about…

Fr Brendan’s Pentecost Homily

Brendan Reed 6 June 2020 No Comments

Penetcost Sunday Receive the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Today’s feast marks the end of the Easter season and the birth of the Church. And it is instructive for us…

The Ascension of the Lord’s Homily

Trac Nguyen 23 May 2020 No Comments

Today we are celebrating the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into Heaven. That is, He ascended into heaven and seated at the right hand of the…

Fr Trac’s Homily, 6th Sunday of Easter

Trac Nguyen 16 May 2020 No Comments

Have you ever experienced spending the last few days or the last few hours farewelling someone who meant a lot in your life? What did that experience look like? We…

Fr Brendan’s Homily, 5th Sunday of Easter

Brendan Reed 9 May 2020 No Comments

Do not be afraid Have you ever experienced the feeling of being dislocated, cut off from things, disoriented, lost? It is the kind of feeling that can come upon us…

Good Shepherd’s Sunday Homily

Trac Nguyen 2 May 2020 No Comments

The liturgy calendar has always provided us with three series of readings for Sunday: A, B and C, each meant to be read in different years so that we would…

Fr Brendan’s Homily – Third Sunday of Easter

Brendan Reed 25 April 2020 No Comments

They recognised him in the breaking of the bread On the dining room wall of my Father’s house hung a copy of the “Road to Emmaus” by Swiss artist, Robert…

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