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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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A large crowd of palm-waving worshippers, including women wearing saris, thronged Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Quakers Hill, in the Diocese of Parramatta, on Palm Sunday to commemorate Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem. ...
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Holy Week as we knew it developed after Christians were free to practice their faith openly. In Jerusalem they could follow the path of Jesus in his last week, beginning with his entry into Jerusalem through his Last Supper with his disciples, and concluding with his crucifixion and resurrection....
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This year, we hear the account of the Passion from the Gospel of St Luke who sees Jesus from the perspective of an outsider. He is at pains to point out that the way Jesus carried out his mission was fundamentally counter-cultural....
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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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Presiding over the liturgy of Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Pope Francis encourages us to journey toward Easter with God's forgiveness, and recalls that as Christ gazes upon "our violent and tormented world," Jesus never tires of repeating: "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."...
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Fr Frank Brennan's Homily for Easter Sunday, 17 April 2022...
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Fr Frank Brennan's Homily for Palm Sunday, 10 April 2022...
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Pope on Palm Sunday: Jesus destroys triumphalism by his Passion...