Fr Brendan Byrne SJ

Truth-telling and the Plenary Council

3 May 2021

‘Prioritising’ the question of ‘how the Church can… empower First Peoples’ will mean including it among four major issues that the Council must address if it is to have any credibility both within itself and in Australian society as a whole.

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Homily notes: Christmas Midnight Mass, 25 December 2020

15 December 2020 EH

The marginal situation of Jesus’ birth renders it accessible to a group particularly on the margins of society themselves.

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Homily notes: The Holy Family Year B, 27 December 2020

15 December 2020 EH

Homily notes for The Holy Family Year B, 31 December 2017

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Communion of the saints

23 October 2020 EH

We are part of a great ‘family’ of God beyond that which we can see here on earth. Readings for the Feast of All Saints.

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Homily notes: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A, 2 August 2020

23 July 2020 EH

The theme uniting the readings this week is clearly that of the boundless generosity of God: God gives freely and God gives in extravagant measure.

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Parish Life blog: Treasure in clay jars

6 July 2017

In past times the Church cultivated a high image of itself because it believed that that was the best way to preserve its credibility. If that image of the church has been shattered—painful as it has been for all who love the church to accept—that is no bad thing. What will continue to give the Church credibility is its quietly going along the way of service. By Fr Brendan Byrne SJ.

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