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During the week I celebrated my 38th anniversary of ordination as a priest. I was ordained in St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, at the age of 31, a fairly typical age for the ordination of a Jesuit. This past week we celebrated the 175th anniversary of the arrival of the...
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Fr Frank's Brennan's Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent, Year B
10 December 2023...
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It’s the first Sunday of Advent. We enter into a month of waiting. But it’s not the passive waiting for a bus or a plane. We are waiting with great expectation of a better world, a better life, and better relationships with the coming of the Christ child at...
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On this feast of the Solemnity of Christ the King, our Australian bishops have published a letter to us all reflecting on last year’s plenary council in Sydney and this year’s session of the Synod in Rome....
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Fr Frank Brennan’s Homily for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
19 November 2023...
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Those of us seeking entry to the kingdom would be wise to be prepared. The first reading from the Book of Wisdom provides a poetic description of wisdom: ‘Wisdom is bright, and does not grow dim. By those who love her she is readily seen, and found by those...
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In today’s gospel, Jesus addresses the people and his disciples: You must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi….You must call no one on earth your father…Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers…Do not be guided by those like the scribes and Pharisees: ‘All their works are...
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Fr Frank Brennan's Homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
29 October 2023...
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Fr Frank Brennan’s Homily: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time...