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2 days ago
Sunday Homily, 16 February 2025 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
We need to work out who among us in fact is blessed, because we have people who have been on both sides of the Lord’s values table. They...
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paulrowse
Feb 9
Sunday Homily, 9 February 2025 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
We’re celebrating Word of God Sunday today. The rest of the Church observed it at the end of January, some weeks ago, but we were busy...
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paulrowse
Feb 2
Sunday Homily, 2 February 2025 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
If we went into a Catholic church in Munich in the 1940s, we’d see the statues of Mary and Jesus wearing yellow armbands with the Star of...
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paulrowse
Jan 26
Australia Day Homily, 26 January 2025 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
Shortly after arriving at Sydney Cove in 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip took the oaths of office to become our first Governor. One of them...
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paulrowse
Jan 19
Sunday Homily, 19 January 2025 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
At some point in your life, Jesus is going to rub you the wrong way. It might be something that he says or does, or something that he...
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paulrowse
Jan 12
Sunday Homily, 12 January 2025 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
There’s a question thrown up by the evangelists to resolve: was the revelation after Jesus’ Baptism physical and public, or not? Did it...
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paulrowse
Dec 25, 2024
Christmas Homily - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
To each and to all, a very merry Christmas. I hope and pray the joy of this feast overruns you, to sweep you up in the Good News: the...
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Dec 24, 2024
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paulrowse
Dec 22, 2024
Sunday Homily, 22 December 2024 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
John the Baptist didn’t fulfil his vocation. The job he had been born to do went undone. He was a priest on both sides of his family. ...
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paulrowse
Dec 15, 2024
Sunday Homily, 15 December 2024 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
It’s a strange thing St Paul has asked us to do: pray with thanksgiving. He might mean that we’re always to remember to say thank you to...
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paulrowse
Dec 8, 2024
Sunday Homily, 8 December 2024 - Fr Paul Rowse, OP
It’s thought that John the Baptist entered the desert as a hermit after the death of his parents. We recall how Elizabeth and Zechariah...
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