Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
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Christmas message 2021
Christmas is the story of God-made man holding out his hand in friendship to humanity. The offer is real, tangible, personal, even physical. After two years of isolation, we need it more than ever. In such dark times, Christmas is a ray of light, a sliver of hope
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HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMN PONTIFICAL MASS FOR 4th SUNDAY OF ADVENT Year C
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Study after study have concluded that Australians are less concerned about the physical effects than they are about the emotional and spiritual effects of the pandemic and lockdowns, that they’ve been thinking much more about the meaning of life and their own mortality, having more spiritual conversations, and praying more to help them get through. They even say they’re now more likely regularl...
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE DEDICATION OF A CHURCH. ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH, ROSEBERY, 12 DECEMBER 2021
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Welcome to St Joseph’s Church, Rosebery, for the Solemn Mass for the Dedication of a Church. It seems only yesterday that I was here installing Fr Paul as your new parish priest: he must have been working the building hard to have broken it already!
HOMILY FOR THE LOURDES DAY MASS FOR THE ORDER OF MALTA
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“When Jesus saw the crowds, he felt sorry for them, because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd” (Mt 9:35-10:8). Our translation “felt sorry for” misses the mark: it’s both mild and aloof. But our English word ‘sorry’ does share the same root as the word ‘sore’, just as our words ‘sympathy’ and ‘compassion’ share roots with ‘pathos’ and ‘passion’. Link: www.sydneycath...
HOMILY FOR THE MASS OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF REV ANDERSON RODAS & REV RAFAEL GALICIA
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Theodor Geisel-‘Dr. Seuss’ to those who grew up on his stories-was a Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning children’s author. He composed and illustrated more than sixty children’s books, mostly in anapestic tetrameter, the preferred meter of poets like Byron. Over 600 million copies of his books were sold in his lifetime, and translated into 45 languages, including Spanish, so Mexicans and ...
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT C INVESTITURE OF KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
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Integrity commissions are all the rage. The states have them and the Commonwealth will too-eventually. Such agencies attempt to root out abuses of office, perversions of justice and other corrupt conduct in public administration. Their investigations have brought down premiers and other public officials. Meanwhile many professional and sporting associations, universities, corporations and chari...
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE KING
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Kings and kingship: they frame the story of Jesus. The New Testament begins with Jesus’ family tree showing He’s a direct descendant of King David, via his step-father Joseph (Mt 1:1-17; Lk 2:4). Link: www.sydneycatholic.org/homilies/2021/homily-for-mass-for-the-solemnity-of-christ-the-king-and-local-celebration-of-world-youth-day-2021/
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 32ND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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At the then-customary examination before Confirmation, a child was asked by a bishop to define Matrimony. She nervously recited from memory: “Matrimony is a place where souls suffer for a time after death on account of their sins.” Embarrassed that her pupil had given the definition of Purgatory rather than Matrimony, the nun in charge was about to correct the child when the Bishop intervened: ...
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 31ST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Year B
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In the sixth century BC a slave named Aesop told the fable of a Fox who, being hard-hunted and having run a long chase, sought refuge from a Farmer who told the Fox to hide in his barn. Presently the hunters came up, and inquired of the man if he had seen the Fox. ‘No,’ says he, ‘I have not seen him’, but all the while he pointed to the place the Fox was hid. Link: www.sydneycatholic.org/homili...
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 30TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B + ANNUAL MARRIAGE MASS
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 sparked the First World War and left his nephew Karl as heir presumptive. Karl had studied law and politics and was a military man. When the emperor also died, late in 1916, he succeeded to the several crowns of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Link: www.sydneycatholic.org/homilies/2021/homily-for-mass-of-the-30th-sunday-of-ordinary-time-year-b-...
HOMILY FOR MASS ON THE 29TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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They’re at it again. James and John are lobbying for special positions in Jesus’ kingdom (Mk 10:35-45; cf. 9:30-37). For the second time in two chapters Jesus exhorts them to let go of any ambition to lord it over others. “Anyone who wants to be great among you must be your servant, anyone who wants to be first must be slave to all.”
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 28TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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CLOSING OF THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF THE FIFTH PLENARY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA The Hebrew word for wisdom חָכְמָה (chokmâh), the Greek word σοφια (sophia) and the Latin sapientia are all feminine nouns. So, naturally enough, the ancients personified Wisdom as a woman. In the wisdom literature of Israel-the Books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Sirach and Wisdom-we’re told she de...
HOMILY FOR MASS OF WEDNESDAY OF THE 27TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME Year 1
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF WEDNESDAY OF THE 27TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME Year 1
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH PLENARY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA
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What’s in a word? We use words to name or describe, to reason, learn and remember, and to communicate to others. With words we write or speak our sacred texts, laws and decisions, records and contracts, essays and books, conversations and correspondence, newspapers and audio-visuals, poems and songs-disclosing ideas, norms, feelings and more. We use words to announce, promise, play, exhort, rec...
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 26TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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We like to think of Him as “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild”-for He is indeed love and mercy personified. But as Charles Wesley’s hymn continues, “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, look upon a little child, pity my simplicity”. Aware as He is of the vulnerability and innocence of the little ones, Our Lord pulls no punches when it comes to those who hurt or corrupt them. “Anyone who is a stumbling block ...
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 25TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 25TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 24TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 24TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 23RD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 23RD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 22ND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 22ND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
HOMILY FOR MASS IN TIME OF PANDEMIC ON THE 21ST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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HOMILY FOR MASS IN TIME OF PANDEMIC ON THE 21ST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
HOMILY FOR THE MASS OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY YEAR B
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HOMILY FOR THE MASS OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY YEAR B
HOMILY FOR MASS OF SUNDAY THE FEAST OF ST. MARY MACKILLOP
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF SUNDAY THE FEAST OF ST. MARY MACKILLOP
HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMN PONTIFICAL MASS FOR THE OCTO CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF ST DOMINIC
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HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMN PONTIFICAL MASS FOR THE OCTO CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF ST DOMINIC
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 18TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Year B
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 18TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Year B
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 17TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 17TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 16TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 16TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 12TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Year B
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HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 12TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Year B
HOMILY ON THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
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HOMILY ON THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
STATE FUNERAL & PONTIFICAL SERVICE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL OUTSIDE MASS FOR ROBERT “BOZO” FULTON AM
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STATE FUNERAL & PONTIFICAL SERVICE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL OUTSIDE MASS FOR ROBERT “BOZO” FULTON AM
HOMILY FOR THE MASS OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF REV DANIEL DRUM FMVD & REV STEPHEN DRUM FMVD
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HOMILY FOR THE MASS OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF REV DANIEL DRUM FMVD & REV STEPHEN DRUM FMVD

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @pax4ol
    @pax4ol 6 років тому

    Thank you Your Eminence for the very timely empowering and inspiring message! May the Infant Jesus, His Virgin Mother, and St Joseph protect you from the snares of the devil this 2019 and beyond.

  • @maximilianthomas3006
    @maximilianthomas3006 6 років тому

    Ay Robert Haddad is here!

  • @NaniStar11
    @NaniStar11 6 років тому

    the audience's face at 14:20 LOL!! that's also how my faced looked.

  • @thatotherotherotherguy
    @thatotherotherotherguy 6 років тому

    I can destroy this whole thing with one question: Whose morals? If that doesn't work, there are multiple logical fallacies. Namely, slippery slope and argumentum ad populum. Saving a drowning victim? Really?

  • @gregchuchelo7248
    @gregchuchelo7248 6 років тому

    1:23:50 did she just show up to ask that one dumb question or was she present during the whole debate? was she even aware of what the topic of the debate was? lel

  • @UnDakotable
    @UnDakotable 6 років тому

    Dude at the beginning can't pick an accent, and he can't shut up.

  • @gregchuchelo7248
    @gregchuchelo7248 6 років тому

    OF COURSE it should be legal! this debate is a waste of singers time

    • @sashilaina2221
      @sashilaina2221 6 років тому

      greg chuchelo m

    • @lyndamyers7267
      @lyndamyers7267 6 років тому

      Waste of time though it may be, I am grateful for those who are willing to challenge the tyranny of religious nonsense. It's ridiculous that one of the debaters is a Catholic Bishop, instead of two fellow philosophy scholars having an intelligent discussion void of Bronze-Age superstition.

  • @christopherleveck6835
    @christopherleveck6835 6 років тому

    I live in Oregon. I have a disease that is not only INCREDIBLY painful, but is also going to cause me to lose my mind. The scary part for me isn't the pain, or the dementia. It's that the pain is gong to continue to get worse, and at some point I won't be able to ask for help or communicate with my family what is wrong. This doesn't mean I won't know what's going on. I'll be trapped in a failing body.

  • @ElliotPuddle
    @ElliotPuddle 6 років тому

    Great debate. The topic is now coming up in New Zealand so I thought I'd hear differing thoughts on the subject.

  • @hernansalazar5272
    @hernansalazar5272 7 років тому

    This guy is telling to the most vulneable people in society that they care about what happens to them. Maybe if your church pressure the Goverment to spend more money on them and less money on wars...

  • @serenity_limi
    @serenity_limi 7 років тому

    Euthanasia is not bad, as long as your intention is not to kill him but to bring to peace and out of his suffering

  • @Simon-Simon-Simon
    @Simon-Simon-Simon 7 років тому

    is euthanasia wrong? AS JESUS SAID MANY TIMES IN PRAYER "thy will be done" tho Lucifer tried to entice "JESUS to employ his own will" is this GODS will or MANS ? and how can we safely say a person is in Christ or reached salvation to thus end life ? we only have THIEF'S on cross as example in a death situation and they had the man himself there with them

    • @MR-xq4ri
      @MR-xq4ri 6 років тому

      This is very incoherent

    • @autumnhiiragizawa3313
      @autumnhiiragizawa3313 6 років тому

      Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, not everyone in the world is a Christian?

  • @sarto2010
    @sarto2010 7 років тому

    Oh cringe. Guitar alert. Why?

    • @voxelbits7
      @voxelbits7 6 років тому

      Why? I don't get what's so wrong with it. I get that it really didn't suit the celebration when there was a full choir, organ and orchestra, but it's not like he was playing in a rock band with drums or something, like in some churches I've seen. Plus, it's a pretty beautiful psalm, especially when the choir and everyone else started joining in the response.

  • @stephenpaul7499
    @stephenpaul7499 7 років тому

    It's interesting how one's religious leanings in large part informs how one feels about this.

  • @Gratiamtuam
    @Gratiamtuam 7 років тому

    Beautiful sermon!

    • @happymatt2013
      @happymatt2013 6 років тому

      Beautiful indeed. I listened from end to end. The subject of abortion is such a delicate one to talk about, especially for us men in my opinion as we will never have to endure such a moral dilemma to make such a decision, I feel fortunate in some ways nobody in my family has ever decided to have an abortion. But doesn't mean I can't think about the subject. Same as for many priests, same for Jesus Christ himself. I felt the Archbishop preached with gentleness and sincerity, not changing the Church's teaching but showing a new attitude that Christians should adopt.

  • @peekakuchu6878
    @peekakuchu6878 8 років тому

    My brother is facing a trial none of us can share, he has to be on dialysis since his kidneys are shot, and now has a brain tumor causing behavioral and memory changes, to the point he cant do many things independently anymore. Today he wanted to die, the strange thing is, Im not entirely against his wish to die, I keep thinking, if it were me wouldnt I want this too? then I think of all the reasons why I would support this. 1. I wouldnt want to be a burden 2. I would want to make that decision for myself not let a disease decide even though that disease impacted my decision. 3. It might not be a terminal illness, but the impact on my life is such, that it is unbearable for me, leading to a tortured existence that I would not want to endure for a moment longer, even being simply tired, weary of continuing with that condition is enough incentive for me to opt out. 4. If I make my resolutions as a planned commitment to die would allow, I could say goodbye without regret, and ease any guilt or blame, mitigate the grief that follows, and soften the burden my death would bring others by spending what time I had as effectively focused on what was important left to share. The burden is a huge point for me, financially it costs so much to treat the illness or bury someone, the stress of planning a funeral and so on, I wouldnt want that for my family to go through, I have allowed my sister to have access to my bank account in case something happened to me.

  • @tonybeamish3765
    @tonybeamish3765 8 років тому

    It's io

  • @organisthawn09
    @organisthawn09 8 років тому

    Love the choir of men and boys.

  • @tonybueno6492
    @tonybueno6492 9 років тому

    TOUCHING, Rev Anthony kissing his mother. GOD bless him.

    • @sarto2010
      @sarto2010 7 років тому

      Tony bueno No. It is not touching. It shows he is easily distracted. His mind is not on the imminent Sacrifice of the altar. He is making Mass "all about me". He is hoping someone will comment, "Aw nice, how cute, how touching, must be a good guy". Guff.

    • @271250cl
      @271250cl 7 років тому

      Couldn't happen if it had been an 'ad orientem' mass!

    • @johnchang1226
      @johnchang1226 7 років тому

      Sarto2010, Just interested to know: are you from Sydney? do you know him personally?

  • @jayjaysalvador23
    @jayjaysalvador23 9 років тому

    Nice benedictine altar arrangement!

  • @MatticusPrime1
    @MatticusPrime1 9 років тому

    Peter Singer made logical, coherent arguments. The Bishop made appeals to emotion. Peter Singer clearly won this debate.

    • @MatticusPrime1
      @MatticusPrime1 8 років тому

      awww did you get confused by the logical arguments? Don't try too hard.

    • @MatticusPrime1
      @MatticusPrime1 8 років тому

      Udaat Mittu You are confused easily. I'm sure you'll grow out of it.

    • @George7763
      @George7763 8 років тому

      Agreed

    • @peekakuchu6878
      @peekakuchu6878 8 років тому

      The problem is, emotions are a very human thing, and something people will react to, but Im pretty much on board with Euthanasia, I think Peters approach which was focused on facts and the direction that legislation will take, was right.

    • @edmund7290
      @edmund7290 8 років тому

      Tbh, I think Peter argued the debate quite well, as the debate was discussing voluntary euthanasia and it was probably unfair to ask the questions that were not in the scope of the debate. However, I believe his personal positions on euthanasia (which were hinted in his closing statement - and the questions asked) aligned with the Archbishops argument that a progressive view of euthanasia was one held by its proponents and one seen as problematic by past proponents. As to Archbishop Fisher, I think that his responses were quite adequate for the questions asked. Some did admittedly appeal to emotion, but I don't think we should immediately dismiss something for not being in the realms of pure logic. An emotional response that goes to the heart and perhaps expresses the deepest parts of our humanity can make perfectly good arguments, it is only when it borders on the realms of false compassion, that it becomes problematic. False compassion (just as an example), maybe an appeal to money over the joy of a human life or for a quality of life we feel we can judge from the outside rather than the inside.

  • @AristidesM637
    @AristidesM637 9 років тому

    More good material here: www.sydneycatholic.org/people/archbishop/addresses/