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This weekend we mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Fr Ted Kennedy, longtime parish priest of Redfern. At his funeral, Ted was described as ‘a pebble in the comfortable boot of the establishment, a man who spilt his guts for others’....
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As pope, he has chosen the name Leo. This is the surest sign that he is a safe pair of hands acceptable to all sides in the ecclesiastical culture wars, while being committed to the vision of Pope Francis. He has taken the name after the great pope Leo...
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We can all identify with Peter in today’s gospel from John. Jesus has died. Peter leads a group who are not only disheartened; they’re so afraid that they have been locking themselves away. Peter decides it’s time to get on with life. Peter, the fisherman, declares that he is...
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May Francis rest in peace, and may we become what he described as ‘pilgrims of hope, witnesses of the victory of love and of the disarmed power of Life’. Francis was commissioning us in the same way as Jesus in today’s gospel when he said to the overjoyed disciples:...
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We now begin our holiest of weeks for the year. We follow Jesus into Jerusalem all the way through passion, death and resurrection. Each step of the way, the crowd, however constituted, has a role to play. Whether for or against Jesus, there would have been people in the...
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We now begin our holiest of weeks for the year. We follow Jesus into Jerusalem all the way through passion, death and resurrection. Each step of the way, the crowd, however constituted, has a role to play. Whether for or against Jesus, there would have been people in the...
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Today’s gospel tells the story of Jesus with the woman who had been caught in adultery. Scripture scholars have had a field day with this story. Most are agreed that it does not really belong in John’s gospel. It is a later interpolation. But that need not trouble us....
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Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent 29 March 2025 Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 34; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Listen at https://soundcloud.com/frank-brennan-6/homily-30-3-25 Today’s gospel presents us with two segments from Chapter 15 of Luke’s gospel. The first segment is just three verses which introduce the theme of...
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There was a blessed and eerie feeling to our Ash Wednesday celebration in Brisbane this year. As I said to the congregation, there is nothing like a pending tropical cyclone to reinforce those words ‘Remember you are dust, and unto dust you will return’,...
This weekend we mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Fr Ted Kennedy, longtime parish priest of Redfern. At his funeral, Ted was described as ‘a pebble in the comfortable boot of the establishment, a man who spilt his guts for others’....
As pope, he has chosen the name Leo. This is the surest sign that he is a safe pair of hands acceptable to all sides in the ecclesiastical culture wars, while being committed to the vision of Pope Francis. He has taken the name after the great pope Leo...
We can all identify with Peter in today’s gospel from John. Jesus has died. Peter leads a group who are not only disheartened; they’re so afraid that they have been locking themselves away. Peter decides it’s time to get on with life. Peter, the fisherman, declares that he is...
May Francis rest in peace, and may we become what he described as ‘pilgrims of hope, witnesses of the victory of love and of the disarmed power of Life’. Francis was commissioning us in the same way as Jesus in today’s gospel when he said to the overjoyed disciples:...
We now begin our holiest of weeks for the year. We follow Jesus into Jerusalem all the way through passion, death and resurrection. Each step of the way, the crowd, however constituted, has a role to play. Whether for or against Jesus, there would have been people in the...
We now begin our holiest of weeks for the year. We follow Jesus into Jerusalem all the way through passion, death and resurrection. Each step of the way, the crowd, however constituted, has a role to play. Whether for or against Jesus, there would have been people in the...
Today’s gospel tells the story of Jesus with the woman who had been caught in adultery. Scripture scholars have had a field day with this story. Most are agreed that it does not really belong in John’s gospel. It is a later interpolation. But that need not trouble us....
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent 29 March 2025 Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 34; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Listen at https://soundcloud.com/frank-brennan-6/homily-30-3-25 Today’s gospel presents us with two segments from Chapter 15 of Luke’s gospel. The first segment is just three verses which introduce the theme of...
There was a blessed and eerie feeling to our Ash Wednesday celebration in Brisbane this year. As I said to the congregation, there is nothing like a pending tropical cyclone to reinforce those words ‘Remember you are dust, and unto dust you will return’,...