Read the scriptures for the Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist at this link.
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Read the scriptures for the Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Twenty One in Ordinary Time, the Feast of St. Monica, at this link.
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Twenty One in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Sunday 25 August , the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Twenty in Ordinary Time at this link.
Join Lucienne Hensel, Rory Paterson and John Kinder in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday of Week Twenty in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Twenty in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Twenty in Ordinary Time at this link.
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I’ve been moving about a bit in recent weeks, across the country and further afield. I don’t enjoy the travel since planes are not designed for people of my height. But I love being with the people I end up with after a journey of any length.
Don’t get down when you hear today’s first reading.
Jeremiah is having a bad day. He’s a bit overwhelmed with the negative response he is getting when he passes God’s message to the people. In short, Jeremiah is having a Jeremiad.
The heart of the home in years past was the hearth.
It was at the hearth that the family gathered for the warmth and light of the flame and the food that was prepared there.
The fire was treated with respect since the same flame which provided energy for the home could just as easily destroy it.
The Israelites in their forty years in the desert were journeying from captivity to freedom, but the struggle of their desert years made them vulnerable to attack from every temptation as today’s first reading continues
I’m not sure if children today are told the great story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, but if not let’s make sure that the parable is taught at all schools of higher learning.