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To Whom shall we go?
Homily for Sunday XXI B 2012 I will begin tonight by saying something about the passage we’ve just heard from the letter to the Ephesians. At first hearing you might think the apostle Paul is trying to keep women in their place, but it is not that at all. It is an extended metaphor about […]
Christian Community: Community of love
Sunday XIX B 2012 Only last week we read that the people whom Moses had led to freedom soon began murmuring / whispering / complaining because they had left the comfort of captivity behind. They no longer had the food they’d always enjoyed in Egypt. Did he want them to die of hunger in the […]
Doubt and faith: Healthy tension
Reflection on the Feast of St Thomas, the Apostle (3 July 2012) Morning prayer of the Church Evening prayer of the Church Today is the feast of St Thomas, the apostle. He is popularly dubbed as the ‘doubting Thomas’ […]
Birth of John the Baptist 2012
The Church offers us two sets of readings for this feast – one for the vigil, and one for the day itself. I have decided this year to use those prescribed for the vigil simply because they are less familiar to us than the others. In particular you will notice that the gospel stops short […]
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