Eighteenth Sunday of Year: Is 55:1-3; Ps 145; Rm 8:35, 37-39; Mt 14:13-21
Spiritual Life
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The question ‘what do you want?’ lays bare the deepest truths about ourselves
Friday, 22 July 2011
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Seventeenth Sunday of the Year: 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12; Ps 119; Rm 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-46
We should always begin prayer with a conscious surrender to the Holy Spirit
Friday, 15 July 2011
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Sixteenth Sunday of the Year: Wis 12:13 & 16-19; Rm 8: 26-27; Mt 13:24-43
The grace of God, like rain and snow watering the desert, summons us to new life
Friday, 8 July 2011
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Fifteenth Sunday of the Year: Is 55:10-11; Rm 8:18-23; Mt 13:1-23
The kind of king who arrived on a donkey
Thursday, 30 June 2011
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Fourteenth Sunday: Zec 9:9-19; Rm 8:9 and 11-13; Mt 11:25-30
‘Whoever eats this bread will draw life from me’
Friday, 24 June 2011
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The Body and Blood of Christ: Deut 8 2-3 & 14-16; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 6: 51-58
Life held in the intimacy of the Trinity
Friday, 17 June 2011
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Trinity Sunday: Ex 34:4-6 & 8-9; 2 Cor 13:11-13; John 3:16-18
The Risen Lord breathed life into his Church
Monday, 13 June 2011
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Pentecost Sunday: Acts 2:1-1; 1 Cor 12:3-7 & 12-13; Jn 20:19-23
The Ascension marked the beginning for which the disciples had longed
Monday, 6 June 2011
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The Ascension of the Lord: Acts 1: 1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20
Before Pentecost pray that the Spirit might reveal a life lived with the Trinity
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Spiritual Life The word this week
As we prepare to celebrate Pentecost we are reminded that our communion with the Risen Lord is rooted in the same realities as the Apostles
Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By William Oddie