Mary made it possible for Jesus to be born on this earth. Pope Francis keeps urging us to keep moving to the margins of our culture and our world because it is there that we will find places of possibility. Places to make the birth of Jesus possible on earth […]
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Our precious lives
As committed disciples of Jesus we are called to embrace the cross so that, in companionship with Jesus alive in our Christian community, we can continue to heal the world from within. This little gem of a sentence is from God’s Word Daily Reflections 2023. Let us not take our […]
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The Phoenician Woman
She has followed us all day, master, hook-nosed, insistent, yapping at our heels in commercial Greek Her husband a boat-builder – those boats of gopher wood – Her daughter, it seems, possessed of a devil which you, master, a Jew, are supposed to exorcise. Talk to her, master, send her […]
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Walking on water
Do you believe Jesus walked on water? It’s a fair question which deserves a fair answer. The Church encourages us to question, scrutinize and interrogate and we’ve nothing to fear from the truth. However, we must also be aware that the Gospel writers weren’t writing fiction or perpetrating a kind […]
Read moreThe Transfiguration of the Lord
Matthew 17:1-9 The Feast day of the Transfiguration of the Lord brings so many symbols to show how God loves us so much. To begin with Jesus’ invitation to Peter, James and John to come along with Him to go a mountain, where He usually went alone to meet and […]
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