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3rd Sunday – Call Me Jonah (How to defy God)

Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah 3:1-10 We hear this Sunday from the hilarious (yet profound!) book of the…

16Jan 202117 Jan 2021
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2nd Sunday – To Hear, to Seek, to Speak, to Become (Part 2)

St John the Evangelist, Carlo Dolci John 1:35-42, 1 Sam 3:3-19 We spoke of the first two movements in the…

16Jan 2021
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2nd Sunday – To Hear, to Seek, to Speak, to Become (Part 1)

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…

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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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The Feast of John Henry Newman

9 Oct 202023 Oct 2020
Sophie Scholl might not be a familiar name to many. She is, however, a legend in Germany. About 200 schools are named after her and was voted ‘woman of the…
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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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24th Sunday – Imaculee Ilibagiza and a Lesson in Forgiveness

12 Sep 20201 Dec 2020
Trinity with the Saints, Boticelli Matthew 18:21-35 “Not seven times, but seventy-seven times”. In this Sunday’s gospel we come to one of the key pillars, maybe the key pillar of Christian life.…
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23rd Sunday – To Judge or Not to Judge?

6 Sep 202026 Sep 2020
Matt 18:15-20 Fra Angelico, Sermon on the Mount Adele, the singer, has been all over the News and social media recently. She seems to have become the latest, but for…
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22nd Sunday – Stumbling Stone

30 Aug 202019 Sep 2020
Felix Joseph Barrias, The Temptation of Christ Matt 16:21-27, Romans 12:1-2 “It so happened that I [once wrote] a bestseller; this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naiveté and I would take…
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21st Sunday – Rock of Salvation

23 Aug 202012 Sep 2020
Matthew 16:13-20 Christ giving the Keys of Heaven, Rubens The most important rock in all of Judaism was the foundation stone of the Temple. The Jews spoke of this as…
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Assumption of Mary – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

16 Aug 20204 Sep 2020
Revelation 11:19-12:10, Luke 1:39-56 Assumption of the Virgin by Corregio, Fresco 1939. Hardly twenty years had passed from what had been thought of as the ‘war to end all wars’.…
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19th Sunday- Elijah and Lessons in the Spiritual Life

9 Aug 202030 Aug 2020
1 Kings 19:9-13 If you’ve trained for a marathon or even otherwise, you might be familiar with the phrase ‘hitting the wall’. It’s the point where the body of the…
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18th Sunday – Two Kingdoms, Two Meals

2 Aug 202023 Aug 2020
Feeding the multitude, by Ambrosius Francken Isaiah 55:1-3, Matthew 14:13-21 We have before us this familiar scene from the gospel, commonly called the ‘Feeding of the five thousand’. It is…
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17th Sunday-Stumbling onto your Treasure

25 Jul 202016 Aug 2020
Matthew 13:44-52, Romans 8:28-30 St Josephine Bakhita, portrait Josephine Bakhita was born in 1869 in Dafur, Sudan, with three brothers and three sisters. She was loved by her family and…
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17th Sunday – The Treasure and Pearl

25 Jul 20209 Aug 2020
These two parables sound very similar to begin with. Finding a treasure, finding a pearl, rejoicing and selling everything to buy it. But did you notice? – they’re not identical,…

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