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June 29, 2017
The 13th Sunday of the Year 2 Kgs 4:8-11; Rom 6:3-4 & 8-11; Mt 10:37-42 (Year A) ‘Anyone who prefers father and mother to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me.” We cannot fail to be challenged, perhaps even shocked, by these words
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June 22, 2017
Twelfth Sunday of the Year Jer 20:10-13; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33 (Year A) We live in troubled times. Outrages committed by the few in the name of religion have cast a dark shadow over the many who conscientiously seek to live lives of faith. There will be those who will seize the opportunity to dismiss
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June 15, 2017
The Body and Blood of Christ Deut 8:2-3 & 14-16; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 6:51-58 (Year A) ‘Remember how the Lord your God led you for 40 years in the wilderness. He fed you with manna, to make you understand that man does not live on bread alone but on everything that comes from the
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June 08, 2017
Trinity Sunday EX 34:4-6 & 8-9; 2 COR 13:11-13; JN 3:6-18 (Year A) There is, within us all, a lingering fear that God is unapproachable. The prophet Isaiah described this seemingly unbridgeable gulf separating sinful humanity from a transcendent God perfectly: “Yes, as the heavens are high above the earth, so are my ways above
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June 01, 2017
Solemnity of Pentecost Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3-7; Jn 20:19-23 (Year A) Pentecost comes this year at a time when our nation is still grieving for those who died in the Manchester bombing. These, and similar incidents, are a stark reminder of the alienation, anger and violence that continue to threaten our fragile world. Ours
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May 25, 2017
The Ascension of the Lord Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20 (Year A) The Ascension of the Lord, as described in the Scriptures, marks an ending. At the same time, it proclaims a beginning, a future called to confident expectation. “When Jesus had been at table with them, he had told them not to leave
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May 18, 2017
Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 8:5-8; 1 Pet 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 (Year A) ‘Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached.” The Acts of the Apostles locates the proclamation of the Resurrection, and the growth of the first congregations in Jerusalem. Of
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May 11, 2017
Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 6:1-7; 1 Pet 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12 (Year A) The unfolding of the Scriptures during the Easter season continually leads us into a deeper understanding of our lives as lived with the Risen Lord. Thus the appointment of the first deacons in the Acts of the Apostles is more than an
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May 04, 2017
Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 2:14 & 36-41; 1 Pet 2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10 (year a) The life that Jesus had lived with his disciples before his death on the Cross was changed radically in his Resurrection. St Paul tells us that through his Resurrection Jesus was “proclaimed Son of God in all his power”. Christ’s
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April 27, 2017
The Third Sunday of Easter Acts 2: 14, 22-3; 1 Pet 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35 (Year A) Luke’s account of the appearance of the Risen Lord to his disciples on the road to Emmaus is both intriguing and challenging. Intriguing, because the disciples failed to recognise him. Challenging, because it questions our own perception of the
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April 20, 2017
The Second Sunday of Easter ACTS 2: 42-47; 1 PET 1:3-9; JN 20:19-31 (YEAR A) ‘You did not see him, yet you love him; and still without seeing him, you are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described, because you believe; and you are sure of the end to which
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April 13, 2017
Easter Sunday Acts 10:34 & 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 (Year A) ‘They killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet three days afterwards God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen. Now we are those witnesses, we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead, and
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