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2023 Patronal Feast Homily

For anyone to be canonised in the Catholic Church, there first a long process towards canonisation which has as its aim to establish that the person concerned practised the cardinal and theological virtues to a heroic degree. The four cardinal virtues are prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude.  The Old Testament book of the Wisdom of Solomon …

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2023 Red Mass Sydney

This year’s Red Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, Archbishop of Sydney. Thank you to all who attended the Red Mass and you can watch the Red Mass via the link below:

2022 Red Mass Sydney

This year’s Red Mass was celebrated by Bishop Danny Meagher, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney. Thank you to all who attended the Red Mass and you can watch the Red Mass via the link below:

2021 Red Mass Sydney

This was the 90th year the Red Mass has been celebrated in Sydney.  We are grateful to Bishop Richard Umbers, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, who celebrated the Red Mass Sydney for us. Thank you to all who attended either the Red Mass Sydney, or the Red Mass Parramatta.  You can watch the Red Mass Sydney below:

2017 Red Mass Homily

Not far from the Law Courts Building on Macquarie Street is the Colonial Secretary’s Building. Many of you know it. While crossing at the corner of Macquarie and Bridge you might have caught a glimpse of the three statues that grace the corner of the building. In ascending order – and it is important to …

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2016 Patronal Feast Day Homily

I’m sure many of you have visited the Frick Gallery in New York, where Hans Holbein’s two portraits hang on the same wall – Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More, whose execution Cromwell engineered for King Henry VIII 1535. All of the hierarchy but St John Fisher, showed the sterling lack of courage of Captain Jack …

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Homily for Red Mass 2015

Just before Christmas, only a few hundred metres from this cathedral and even closer to our legal precinct, a man who styled himself ‘Sheik’ Man Haron Monis held a café full of staff and customers hostage for hours, terrorizing them and our city, until it ended with three dead. One was a member of the …

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