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27Feb 202127 Feb 2021
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2nd Sunday – Overwhelmed by Light

Mark 9:2-10 The Transfiguration is one of the scenes which you can return to, over and over again and find…

21Feb 202122 Feb 2021
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1st Sunday – Overcoming the Passions

Maerten de Vos, The Temptation of Saint Anthony Mark 1:12-15 As Lent begins, the gospel focuses on Jesus’ testing in…

13Feb 2021
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6th Sunday – The Purification of the Lepros

Leviticus 13:1-2,44-46, Mark 1:40-45 We are offered a significant miracle of healing in Mark’s gospel, that of a lepros. The…

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5th Sunday – The Gift (and curse) of Work

6 Feb 202127 Feb 2021
Joseph the Carpenter, Georges de La Tour Job 7:1-7, Mark 1:29-39 We have a word that seems very relevant for the time we are living through in this pandemic. Job…
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4th Sunday – The Voice of Authority

31 Jan 202121 Feb 2021
Jesus casting out demons, unknown artist. Mark 1:21-28 Mark gives us a snapshot of the first day of Jesus’ ministry. We’ve heard only a part of it. Jesus enters the…
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3rd Sunday – Call Me Jonah (How to defy God)

23 Jan 202123 Feb 2021
Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah 3:1-10 We hear this Sunday from the hilarious (yet profound!) book of the prophet Jonah. This is the only Sunday of the three-year…
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2nd Sunday – To Hear, to Seek, to Speak, to Become (Part 2)

16 Jan 20216 Feb 2021
St John the Evangelist, Carlo Dolci John 1:35-42, 1 Sam 3:3-19 We spoke of the first two movements in the last account of the disciples encountering Jesus for the first…
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2nd Sunday – To Hear, to Seek, to Speak, to Become (Part 1)

16 Jan 202131 Jan 2021
The Lamb of God, Pietro Bernini John 1:35-42, 1 Sam 3:3-19 It’s a real gift to reflect on these texts from the gospel of John during the year. What we…
Christmas…

Baptism of the Lord – Open to the Father’s Love

10 Jan 202123 Jan 2021
The Baptism of Christ, Leonardo da Vinci Isaiah 42:1-7, Mark 1: 7-11 2015 saw the demise of one of the brightest intellectuals of our age, Rene Girard. His work spanned…
Christmas…

Feast of the Baptism – One with Us

10 Jan 202116 Jan 2021
Do you remember Jacob’s ladder, with the angels ascending and descending? Throughout the Christmas season we have contemplated how God came down that ladder to our world, how he came…
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Epiphany – The Risk of Faith

5 Jan 202116 Jan 2021
Matthew 2:1-12 The feast of Epiphany. We meet the Magi, these well-loved characters in every crib. Today, they are contrasted with another character, Herod. Between them, they represent the best…
Christmas…

2nd Sunday – Life, Light and Love in the Beginning

3 Jan 202110 Jan 2021
John 1:1-18 Coming to the Prologue of John’s gospel is like arriving at the foot of Mount Everest. We gaze upon it’s stunning height and grandeur. The difference is that…
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4th Sunday – A tale of two Temples

20 Dec 20205 Jan 2021
2 Samuel 7:1-16, Luke 1:26-38 As we come to the Fourth Sunday of Advent, our Gospel text focuses on Mary, who has remained hidden so far. It is difficult to…
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3rd Sunday – Year of the Lord’s Favour

13 Dec 20203 Jan 2021
Isaiah 61:1-11, John 1:6-8,19-28 What would you do, once things return to normal - whatever normal might be when this ends? Have you thought - am sure you have -…
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2nd Sunday – Prepare the Way

6 Dec 202025 Dec 2020
St. John the Baptist Preaching, c. 1665, by Mattia Preti Isaiah 40:1-11, Mark 1:1-8 We are almost at the end of this calendar year. A lot of people remark on how they can’t…
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1st Sunday – The Doorkeeper

28 Nov 202021 Dec 2020
Young Woman Holding a Lamp, Gerard Dou Mauritshuis, Netherlands. Isaiah 63:16-17,64:1-8, Mark 13:33-37 Advent is perhaps the most beautiful of the Church’s liturgical seasons. In the run up to Christmas,…
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Christ the King – The Sheep and the Goats

20 Nov 202013 Dec 2020
The Last Judgment, Michelangelo Matthew 25:31-46 If you’ve been to the Sistine Chapel, you can’t fail to be impressed by the full length mural serving as the backdrop to the…
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Thursday Week 33 – 7 seals, 7 Horns, 7 Eyes

19 Nov 202019 Nov 2020
Apocalypse 5:1-10 Anyone who has picked up the book of Revelation knows that it has some strange imagery. In the first reading today we see a Lamb with seven horns…

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