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Bishop David McGough

October 13, 2016
The 29th Sunday of the Year Ex 17:8-13; 2 Tim 3:14 – 4:2; Lk 18:1-8 (year c) “Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.” Prayer is both a private and shared activity. It is shared most obviously in the celebration of the Eucharist, when the community,
October 06, 2016
The 28th Sunday of the Year 2 Kings 5:14-17; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Lk 17:11-19 (year c)  ‘The Lord has made known his salvation, has shown his salvation to the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.” The psalmist proclaimed a God whose mercy reached beyond the cultural and
September 29, 2016
The 27th Sunday of the Year Hab 1:2-3 & 2:2-4; 2 Tim 1:6-8 & 13-14; Lk 17:5-19 (year c)  ‘How long, Lord, am I to cry for help while you will not listen; to cry ‘oppression’ in your ear and you will not save?” The complaint of Habakkuk voiced Israel’s mounting anxiety as she was
September 22, 2016
The 26th Sunday of the Year Amos 6:1 & 4-7; 1 Tim 6:11-16; Lk 16:19-31 (year c) “Woe to those ensconced so snugly in Zion and to those who feel so safe on the mountain of Samaria.” The prophet Amos was, to say the very least, an unwelcome voice to the social elite of Israel’s
September 15, 2016
The 25th Sunday of the Year: Am 8:4-7; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 (year c)
September 15, 2016
The 25th Sunday of the Year Am 8:4-7; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 (year c) ‘No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave of God and money.” The
September 08, 2016
The 24th Sunday of the Year: Ex 32: 7-11 & 13-14; 1 Tim 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32 (year c)
September 08, 2016
The 24th Sunday of the Year Ex 32: 7-11 & 13-14; 1 Tim 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32 (year c) In the First Letter to Timothy, Paul describes himself as the greatest of sinners: a blasphemer who had done everything to discredit and injure the early Church. His subsequent conversion, described in earlier letters, was experienced as
September 01, 2016
The 23rd Sunday of the Year: Wis 9: 13-18 Phlm 9-10, 12-17, Lk 14: 25-33 (year c)
September 01, 2016
The 23rd Sunday of the Year Wis 9: 13-18 Phlm 9-10, 12-17, Lk 14: 25-33 (year c) The Gospel according to Luke is a carefully depicted drama describing the final journey of Jesus to Jerusalem. Within that Holy City, hallowed by centuries of worship and suffering, his mission would be accomplished in his death and
August 25, 2016
The Twenty-second Sunday of the Year Ecclus 3:17-20 Heb 12:18-19, 22-24 Lk 14: 1-7 (year c)
August 25, 2016
The Twenty-second Sunday of the Year Ecclus 3:17-20 Heb 12:18-19, 22-24 Lk 14: 1-7 (year c) ‘Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the man who humbles himself will be exalted.” This saying of Jesus, coming as the conclusion of a parable that had criticised the presumption of those who took the best places
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