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		<title>Reunion of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this homily for All Saints Day, Fr Richard Healey compares the feast day to a massive family reunion, where we see shared spiritual resemblances and celebrate being united in God&#8217;s love. Reflecting on 1 John, he notes that God has already lavished His love upon us in the present moment, making us His beloved [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Living the Commandments of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stepping into a hospital room after receiving a quick text message from a social worker is a familiar part of chaplaincy care at Campbelltown Hospital, yet it almost always comes with a quiet sense of apprehension. Walking through that door, you rarely know what emotional or spiritual reality awaits on the other side, particularly when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bearing the Image of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fr Richard Healey addresses the Gospel story of the Pharisees and Herodians confronting Jesus about paying taxes to Caesar. He highlights that while Jesus acknowledges our civic duties within a social contract, the broader message centers on identity and ownership. Pointing to Genesis 1:27, Fr Richard notes that human beings are made in the image [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Banquet invitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Changed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God's love]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Wedding Feast: An Invitation to Be Transformed Planning a wedding can be a strenuous, stressful business. The average wedding in New South Wales this year costs about $42,000, and everyone has heard a story about a guest who failed to show up at the last minute, leaving the couple to pay several hundred dollars [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">280112</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Fruitful Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Season of Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Covenant]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Standing in the Ticino Valley surrounded by the medieval castles of Bellinzona, one is struck by how protective walls enclose not only the central fortresses, but also the surrounding fields and vineyards. This instinct to build high defensive walls around vines points to a deep human truth: we protect what is precious. When Jesus speaks [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">280105</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Not just words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Season of Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This homily contrasts two responses to God: the outward respectability of the scribes and Pharisees, who say the right words but haven&#8217;t changed their hearts, and the &#8220;sinners and tax collectors&#8221; who have genuinely turned back to God despite their pasts. Drawing on Ezekiel, Fr Healey stresses that we are not condemned for the failures [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">280101</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>No One Has Hired Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Drawing on a family gathering in Brisbane where grandchildren had to be given assigned seats to prevent squabbling, Fr Richard observes how deeply our instinct for fairness runs — and how quickly it turns to resentment. The same instinct appears in the parish, where people occupy the same pews year after year and can bristle [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No more ledgers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercy.]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tearing Up the Ledger: The Power and Freedom of Radical Forgiveness Funerals have a tragic habit of exposing the rawest edges of human nature. During a recent service constrained by a strict thirty-five-minute limit, a family&#8217;s deep division forced a religious service to be abruptly rushed out to make room for a secular one. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">280061</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>No more silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Season of Growth]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Breaking the Awkward Silence: The Courage of Gospel Reconciliation When harm or conflict enters a family, workplace, or parish community, a heavy and awkward silence often settles over the room. Someone behaves arrogantly or destructively, yet those around them remain silent, convincing themselves that it is not their place to speak up. In his reflection [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Diving Back Into the Water</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/diving-back-into-the-water/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a story of an Australian swimmer who, as a teenager, reached the very top of his sport — school, region, state, then the green and gold at both the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics. And then, not long after that Olympic high, an injury took the shine off it all. Life got busy, work [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">280015</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Say it outloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A mother recently shared how startled she was when her daughter turned to her on the drive home from school and asked, &#8220;Mum, do you really believe in all this Jesus business?&#8221; It is a poignant, inescapable question that every believer must eventually confront: who is Jesus to us, really? When Jesus posed this exact [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">280009</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Sliding Along the Pew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Preached on the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, this homily opens with a story of a refugee family in Campbelltown who felt truly welcomed in Australia for the first time when a stranger slid along a pew and patted the seat beside her. That gesture frames a reading of Isaiah&#8217;s vision of a house of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279993</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>The First Blossom of Spring</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/the-first-blossom-of-spring/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Driving around in the middle of August, you notice how unevenly winter is loosening its grip. Some trees are still completely bare, without a hint of bud or leaf. Others, though, are already blossoming — a couple of wattle trees on the grounds of the school have burst into full, golden flower while everything around [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279979</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>No Shrine, No Tomb</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/no-shrine-no-tomb/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What Mary&#8217;s Empty Grave Tells Us There&#8217;s a small but telling detail worth sitting with on this feast: nowhere in the world is there a shrine claiming to hold the body of Mary. Saints have tombs. Their relics are venerated, their resting places become places of pilgrimage. But not Mary. There is no site, no [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279977</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Finding God in the Storm</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/finding-god-in-the-storm/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on Matthew&#8217;s account of Jesus walking on water and Peter&#8217;s attempt to join him, this homily draws on a memory of driving through a violent storm near the Brindabellas to explore what it means to face fear and uncertainty without losing sight of God&#8217;s presence. It contrasts our tendency to look for God in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279938</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>More than enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bread]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The multiplication of the loaves and fishes is a familiar story, yet the physical miracle of turning a few loaves into a feast for thousands is perhaps the least surprising element of the narrative. Throughout our lives, many of us have witnessed quiet glimpses of divine providence—times in soup kitchens or community outreach centers where [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Planned for Glory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Foreknown, Loved, and Transformed: Walking the Golden Chain of Grace Imagine waiting seven long years for something your heart desperately desires. For a couple named Mark and Liz, those seven years were defined by endless medical appointments, fertility clinics, careful tracking, and the quiet weight of anxiety. When news of a pregnancy finally arrived, joy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279910</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Foreknown, Loved, and Transformed: Walking the Golden Chain of Grace Imagine waiting seven long years for something your heart desperately desires. For a couple named Mark and Liz, those seven years were defined by endless medical appointments, fertility clinics, careful tracking, and the quiet weight of anxiety. When news of a pregnancy finally arrived, joy [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Fr Richard Healey</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Foreknown, Loved, and Transformed: Walking the Golden Chain of Grace Imagine waiting seven long years for something your heart desperately desires. For a couple named Mark and Liz, those seven years were defined by endless medical appointments, fertility clinics, careful tracking, and the quiet weight of anxiety. When news of a pregnancy finally arrived, joy [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Catholic,Sunday,Homily,Sermon,FrRick,Richard,Healey,Diocese,of,Wollongong</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>Patient with weeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A friend once told me about a parish that found itself in a genuinely dangerous situation. A large group of parishioners had begun agitating against the leadership team and the parish council, support for them was growing, and factions were starting to form. So the parish gathered everyone together to discern what to do about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sowing with Abundance</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/sowing-with-abundance/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Growing up in the dairy country of the Bega Valley, in a place called Brogo, meant living closely connected to the rhythm of the land. While only a few farms down by the river ever attempted to grow commercial crops, most families settled for maintaining a substantial backyard veggie patch. In a household of seven [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279887</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Laying It Down</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/laying-it-down/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Condemnation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mission]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a distinct and familiar imagery in watching a young child head off on their first ever school camp, completely dwarfed by a monstrous backpack. They stumble along the footpath, practically buckling under the weight of excessive clothing and various items they stubbornly deemed essential for a single overnight trip. When a well-meaning adult [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279853</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Making Room for Grace</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/making-room-for-grace/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is something quietly powerful about the person in a parish community who notices others. You know the kind: the one who cannot bear to see someone sitting alone, who crosses the room with a warm smile, perhaps carrying a cup of tea, and who asks not just “How are you?” but “How are you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279849</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Courage and Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Storms, Companions, and the God Who Stays Drawing on a childhood memory of a storm-frightened farm dog, Fr Richard reflects on this Sunday&#8217;s readings — Jeremiah&#8217;s lament, Paul&#8217;s letter to the Romans, and Jesus sending out the Twelve — to explore how God meets our fear not with empty reassurance but with presence, companionship, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Compassion and Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Year A]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Apprentices to Apostles: Carrying Divine Compassion into the Peak Hour Crowd If you have ever stood on a crowded railway platform during the morning peak hour, watched the brake lights crawl along the M5 after a long day in town, or navigated the afternoon frustration of Narellan Road, you have seen the exact crowd [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279824</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Bread Enough</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/bread-enough/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Solemnity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bread]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eucharist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A story was told of a mother arriving at a refugee camp in Lebanon after walking for two weeks with her three young children. When an aid worker finally gave her a simple meal of bread and rice, she held the bread for a moment and said she never knew if she would eat bread [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279792</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Plunging into Divine Love</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/plunging-into-divine-love/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 11:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Solemnity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trinity]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://rmhealey.com/?p=279786</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Even as the weather turns distinctly chilly, a memory from the height of summer can offer us a profound spiritual insight. Picture a local swimming pool on a scorching hot afternoon, alive with the sound of children laughing, splashing, and diving straight into the deep end without a second thought. Off to the side, however, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279786</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Southerly Buster</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/southerly-buster/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 03:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solemnity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pentecost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waiting]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://rmhealey.com/?p=279766</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Any Sydney-sider knows the feeling. It&#8217;s the middle of a long, sweltering afternoon, the power has cut out, the air conditioning is dead, and everything feels close and compressed around you. All you can do is wait and hope. Then, almost imperceptibly at first, something shifts. The trees begin to sway, the windows rattle in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279766</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Awkward Living Bones</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/awkward-living-bones/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solemnity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Breath]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sinai]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://rmhealey.com/?p=279768</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[From Dry Bones to Pentecost People: The Spirit Who Speaks Every Language Beginning with a self-deprecating confession about being naturally awkward, this Pentecost homily weaves together the Tower of Babel, Ezekiel&#8217;s valley of dry bones, the giving of the Law at Sinai, and the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost into a single, hope-filled story. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279768</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Super Bones</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/super-bones/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 10:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pentecost]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://rmhealey.com/?p=279762</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a particular kind of awkwardness that settles over a room full of people who don&#8217;t quite know each other yet. You&#8217;ve probably felt it — that moment at a parish gathering or community meeting where everyone is technically in the same space but not yet with one another. Someone needs to break the ice. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279762</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Absence and Mission</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/absence-and-mission/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 02:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ascension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingdom]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://rmhealey.com/?p=279747</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Beyond the Departure Gates: Finding the Ascended Christ in Our Own Backyard If you have ever spent time in the departure terminal at Sydney Airport—particularly the international terminal—you know the exact emotional climate of that space. It is a place thick with human drama. You can stand there and watch life unfold in a series [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279747</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>You Are Not Alone</title>
		<link>https://rmhealey.com/you-are-not-alone/</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 05:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waiting]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://rmhealey.com/?p=279723</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The Promise of the Paraclete Summary: Drawing on the eve of Jesus&#8217;s crucifixion and Philip&#8217;s bold mission to Samaria, this homily reflects on the Holy Spirit as the paracletos — the one who draws alongside us in our loneliness and loss. As Pentecost approaches, we are invited to open ourselves to the Spirit&#8217;s presence and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">279723</post-id>	<dc:creator>richard@rmhealey.com (Fr Richard Healey)</dc:creator></item>
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