In our highly sexualised culture, celibacy is often despised or belittled. It’s said no normal man would commit to it. Yet here in the Archdiocese of Sydney we will have four ordinations to the priesthood this year, we had five last year, six in COVID time, and six in the year before... The post HOMILY FOR THE RITUAL MASS OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD OFREV. RICHARD SOFATZIS AND MATTHEW LUKASZEWICZ appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

He was at the height of his powers going into the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. The British sprinter, Derek Redmond, held the British record over 400m and the year before was on the relay team that upset the red-hot US squad, winning the world championships. His Olympic campaign couldn’t have started better: he blitzed the field in his qualifying heat and... The post Homily for Mass of the Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

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Having lost his only sibling, his mother and then his father before he reached adulthood, Karol Józef Wojtyła knew the importance of family. It would be one of his chief areas of teaching as pope, running like a watermark throughout his 27-year pontificate. Pope John Paul II believed the family is the school for a deeper humanity, the nursery of faith... The post Past, Present, and Future—Homily for Votive Mass of Our Lady of Fatima appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

Many of our shared spaces are broken and we seem only able to see things through a hyper-tribal lens of progressive and conservative, us versus them. On hot-button topics there’s little room for civil exchange of views, reasoned arguments and openness to persuasion, nuance, compromise, or respectful disagreement; instead, we have slogans, vitriol... The post Catechesis on ‘Social Friendship’World Youth Day 2023 appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

Lately there’s been plenty of talk about UFOs, aliens, and interstellar travel: a former US official has even claimed under oath that government is in possession of a non-human spacecraft with some intact alien biological material! I don’t pretend to know the rights and wrongs of all of this, but I wonder what an alien species would make of a million plus adolescent humans... The post Catechesis on ‘Integral Ecology’ for World Youth Day 2023 appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

"We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought control, No dark sarcasm in the classroom, Teacher, leave them/us kids alone" Pink Floyds’ 1979 protest song, Another Brick in the Wall, was a massive hit... The post On Social Friendship—Homily for Thursday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1‘Rise Up Meeting’ for World Youth Day appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

With 87 winning teams in over 15 franchises so far, The Amazing Race is the most popular reality tv adventure show of all time. Teams of two with a limited budget traverse the globe on various forms of transport, navigating unfamiliar territory, solving puzzles, interacting with locals, and overcoming physical... The post The Amazing Race — Homily for ‘Rise Up Meeting’ for World Youth Day 2023 appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

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... The post Homily for the Solemn Mass for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) and the WYD Commissioning Mass appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

José Salvador Alvarenga is hardly a household name, but perhaps it deserves to be. In 2012 José and his mate Ezequiel set out on a seven-metre fibreglass boat for a night of fishing off the Mexican coast. It proved to be a nightmare. A catastrophic five-day long storm left them with no engine or radio. They had no instruments to figure out their location... The post Homily for Mass for Wednesday 14th Week of Ordinary Time, Year A appeared first on Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.