In what is likely to be his final Curia Mass before retirement, Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge shared his gratitude for the staff of the Brisbane Archdiocese and encouraged them on the Church’s mission. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Archbishop Coleridge, 76, is due to retire but is awaiting an appointment of a successor from newly elected Pope Leo XIV.
Looking out at the staff, he likened it to St Paul preaching in the synagogue to both Jews and Gentiles.
“What a mixed bag we are,” Archbishop Coleridge said in his homily.
He said while most were baptised Catholics, not all were, and everyone was on different stages of the “spiritual journey”.
“And yet we gather and how right that is – mixed bag and all,” he said.
He said the truth was they were all united not behind “an institution or an ideology” but Jesus Christ.
“We are servants who wash the feet of the world. In our workplace, we speak the truth of Easter. We offer the message of hope.”
As he came to the end of his tenure, Archbishop Coleridge said he wanted to offer his sincere thanks to the staff. The past 13 years in Brisbane, he said, had been the “richest and most satisfying period in my life”.
“This could not have possibly been true if not for you. In that very personal sense, I say thank you.”
The Curia Mass is an annual Mass for the staff of Brisbane archdiocese.
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Archbishop Coleridge gives thanks to staff for ‘richest and most satisfying’ 13 years of his life at Curia Mass (By Joe Higgins, The Catholic Leader)
