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6th Sunday – The Purification of the Lepros

13 Feb 20216 Mar 2021
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 account is very vivid.  What is translated as leprosy is…
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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…
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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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33rd Sunday – Fear, Valour and the Joy of the Lord

15 Nov 202012 Dec 2020
The Stretcher, Eleuterio Pagliano. Prov 31:10-31, Matt 25:14-30 We come to the final parable in Matthew’s gospel. It leads to the awesome scene of the Final Judgement, which also sets…
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32nd Sunday – The Burning Love of the Bride

8 Nov 202028 Nov 2020
Wise and Foolish Virgins, William Blake Matt 25:1-13 Weddings, then, like now, were elaborate affairs. They probably lasted a whole week. In first century Jewish weddings, the man would first…
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29th Sunday – Taxes,Caesar and God

18 Oct 20208 Nov 2020
The Tribute Money, Thomas Sully Matt 22:15-21 In today’s gospel, we have an unholy alliance, of the Pharisees and the Herodians who come together against Jesus. The question they pose,…
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28th Sunday – The Process of Judgement

11 Oct 202031 Oct 2020
Parable of the Wedding Banquet, from paintingvalley.com Isaiah 25:6-10, Matt 22:1-14 We reach the last part of Matthew’s gospel as Jesus enters Jerusalem. (If you’re wondering whether you missed something,…
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27th Sunday – “Falling asleep in the Father’s arms”

4 Oct 202016 Oct 2020
Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, by Valentin de Boulogne. Phil 4:6-9 Philippians is among the last letters written by Paul. We know that he was in captivity, though it is…
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27th Sunday -Tending the Vineyard

4 Oct 20205 Oct 2020
Matt 21:33-43 So many of our problems come from thinking that our life belongs to us. Take our lack of patience, for example, when we say that someone is “wasting…
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26th Sunday -Phronesis and the Drama of Suffering

27 Sep 202010 Oct 2020
The Apostle Paul by Rembrandt Phil 2:1-11 Philippi was a Roman Colony. A colony of Rome was an extension of Rome and it’s rule. These weren’t colonies in the sense we…
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25th Sunday – Why be envious because I’m generous?

19 Sep 20205 Oct 2020
Workers in the Vineyard, Rembrandt Isaiah 55:6-9, Matthew 20:1-16 The parables of Jesus are masterful constructions, deceptively simple in their appearance. Very often they are seen as similes, helping one…

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