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Just two weeks now after Easter Sunday and we’re still very much sharpening our focus on the “initial” impact of these first post resurrection days on the lives of Jesus’ Apostles and his friends. What a head-wrecker it must have been for them in terms of...
Welcome toPalm Sunday 2013, and welcome too to Holy Week that begins with this day. The next week can be as different or as ordinary as you choose to make it – in terms of the real meaning of Holy Week 2013 – the choice is an individual one, not imposed by anyone...
St Patrick’s Day With each passing year it seems the 17th March is getting more “frothy” with an ever decreasing public deference to the real reason behind it. We’re now more or less stuck with two extremes; there’s the no ‘Saint’ word Paddy’s Day parade brigade,...
Fourth Sunday of Lent - 10/03/2013 We’re now well into the second week as a Popeless Church: of course Popeless doesn’t mean hopeless, but it does raise in peoples’ minds not only the notion of and the significance of “leadership”, but the need for it as well. All the...
Third Sunday of Lent - 03/03/2013 I’d say it’s a reasonable assumption to make, that a first reading of the Scripture passages this week-end will reinforce the thinking of the ‘God-will-get-you’ brigade. This mindset is for me, apart from being totally wrong,...
Second Sunday of Lent 24/02/2013 It is interesting to note that this Gospel account is by St. Luke even though he himself wasn’t a witness that day. With the possible exception of St. John (who according to legend lived to be nearly 100 years old), there was no other...
Albeit that the beginning of the Christian Season of Lent, for yet another year, began last Wednesday – it’s the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI last Monday that seems to have been grabbing the headlines all over the Christian Church ever since. The...
With Advent starting next Sunday (in preparation for Christmas 2012) – this is the last Sunday of the Liturgical Calendar year! That’s the reason our Church around the world celebrates “Christ the King” this weekend. At the time the Liturgical Calendar was put...
‘Summer 2012’ will be remembered by so many for the remarkable displays of achievement and success in the London Olympics. This of course was followed by the added courageous and determined displays of endurance at the Paralympics. These were a very powerful witness...