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Homily at the closing Mass of the Archdiocesan Synod
As we come to this point of rest on the synodal journey, we go to the mountains. The first is Mount Nebo where, after the flight from Egypt and the...
Learn MoreHomily at the Opening Mass of the First Assembly of SYNOD24
The theme of this Synod, "I am making all things new", are words of the Risen Christ taken from the Book of Revelation (21:5). They were spoken into a world...
Learn MoreHomily on the Death of Fr Gerald O'Collins SJ
I first met Gerald O'Collins in 1971 when I was a seminarian at Corpus Christi College Glen Waverley in what was then called first year Theology and he was a...
Learn MoreHomily on the Solemnity of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop
Mary MacKillop was by all accounts a peaceful woman who, it has been said, "respected and loved people even when they were at their worst". Yet she was no stranger...
Learn MoreHomily at the Sesquicentenary Celebration of the Cathedral of St Stephen
It was Winston Churchill who said, "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us". He echoed the words of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, "We create our buildings and then...
Learn MoreArchbishop Coleridge Anzac Day homily 2024
Warfare has changed dramatically in the span of time we remember on Anzac Day. Perhaps the greatest emblem of that change was the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima...
Learn MoreHomily at the Easter Vigil
A large stone was rolled across the entrance of the new rock-hewn tomb where Jesus was laid. It was the custom to seal a tomb of this kind, not only...
Learn MoreHomily on Good Friday
In his letters, the Apostle Paul speaks of the two Adams - the first Adam of the beginning and the second Adam, Jesus, of the new beginning, the man of...
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