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Before embarking on His mission, Jesus presented himself to John the Baptist for baptism. Now, John’s baptism was a summons to repentance and therefore was for sinners. But Jesus was no sinner, so why did He submit Himself to it? It seems that He wanted to identify Himself publicly with the kind of people He […]

Well, here we go again with the build up to Christmas. At present, most adverts on TV are for Christmas things to buy – food/ gifts/ drinks of all kinds. There will be all kinds of noise linked with Christmas. There will be all kinds of good, bad and funny things happening. There will be […]

In order to enter into the celebration of today’s feast, two points are to be made clear. The first concerns the meaning of Kingship in this context.In modern Western culture, Kings and Queens do not exercise much power. In the Bible, though, their power is absolute. What we are celebrating in today’s feast, then, is […]

This Gospel passage (Luke 21.5-19) is a collection of many different sayings of Jesus, all of them relevant to a situation of crisis in the present or looming in the future. You will recognise their truth from your experience of small as well as big crises. In verses 5 and 6 the people are typical […]