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Newsletter – 4th February 2024
5TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR B, 4TH FEBRUARY 2024
This helped me, I hope it is good for you. Job was a good man yet he suffered terrible tragedies. This resulted in his gloomy view of life. Suffering is still a big problem. There are lots of people today who could identify with Job. Think of all who suffer from poverty, hunger, sickness. injustice, […]
Continue Reading4th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 28th January 2024
Today we have a glut of words from public figures but there is a depressing predictability about what they have to say. How few speak with real authority. Their statements of policy may be obeyed, but nobody seriously regards them as having authority. If many public figures lack truth, then it feels as if the […]
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3RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR B, 21ST JANUARY
Repent and believe the Good News. God’s call is mysterious, it comes in the darkness of faith. It is so fine and subtle that it is only with the deepest silence within us that we can hear it. Yet nothing is surer or stronger and nothing is so decisive and overpowering as that call. This […]
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2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR B, 14TH JANUARY 2024
From FR MICHAEL All through our lives we are meeting with people. Some we have known for ages and others we meet for only a short while and we do not see them again. Sometimes we meet with people and a friendship grows. Then other times there is no connection at all. Sometimes a person […]
Continue ReadingTHE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY, YEAR B, 7TH JANUARY 2024
From FR MICHAEL Once the people of a very; poor parish set their hearts on acquiring an expensive set of figures for their Christmas crib. They worked hard to scrape together the money to buy the figures which were made of rare porcelain. Eventually they had their crib. And were they proud of it! The […]
Continue ReadingTHE FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY, YEAR B, 31ST DECEMBER
A reading from an Address by Pope Paul VI – The pattern of Nazareth The home of Nazareth is the school where we begin to understand the life of Jesus—the school of the Gospel. The first lesson we learn here is to look, to listen, to meditate and penetrate the meaning—at once so deep and so […]
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