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Lectio Divina - daily prayer with the scriptures
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Two thousand years ago Nazareth, the home-town of Jesus, was very small with a population of only about 400 people. This means that everyone would have known everyone else. Yesterday was my last Sunday in the Hurunui and the morning Mass at Amberley was my final...
We don't often consider the psalm of each day's Mass when reflecting on the scriptures of the liturgy, but the psalm can provides a helpful key to understanding the rest of the readings of the day. In the psalm response today we pray together from Psalm 18: "Lord you...
Today's gospel is one of Jesus' best known parables. The account, usually named the Prodigal Son, is really about the loving father. That change of name is an important shift if we want to appreciate what Jesus is teaching us: it's really about God, not about us. The...
Take a moment to read today's brief gospel: Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick –no food, no sack, no money in their...
What is that you hope for your children? In today's gospel reading we meet the "mother of the sons of Zebedee." She was ambitious for her boys, but in the conversation with Jesus she comes to see that something more is offered than an earthly understanding of human...