Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.

Homily for Thursday in the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time, Optional Memorial for Saint Columbanus, Abbot and Missionary, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld. "The commissioners of King Antiochus who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein to make them sac…

Homily for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld. "A perfect wife – who can find her? She is far beyond the price of pearls. Her husband’s heart has confidence in her, from her he will derive no little profit. Advantage and not hurt s…

Homily for Monday in the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in the Gladstone Seafarers Chapel, Qld. "‘Come,’ they said ‘let us reach an understanding with the pagans surrounding us, for since we separated ourselves from them many misfortunes have overtaken us.’ This proposal proved accep…

A brief address from Bryan Jordan, recounting the inspiration and history of Gladstone's ministry to Seafarers. This address was given over a cuppa in the foyer of the Gladstone Seafers Centre, after Mass in the Chapel — the first of a re-established regular Mass in the centre, to be held monthly h…