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Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Ten in Ordinary Time at this link.
Join Triona Doocey, Chris Duthie-Jung & David Moxon in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday of Week Eight in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of Corpus Christi at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday Week Eight in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Eight in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of the Holy Trinity at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday Week Seven in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday of Week Seven in Ordinary Time at this link.
Join Kath Petrie & John Kinder in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Feast of the Holy Trinity.
Read the scriptures for this feast at this link.Â
You might be interested in the well-known and much-appreciated Trinity Icon written by Rublev. More information at this link.
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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.
Over the last month I have had the opportunity to work with many people across Aotearoa and further afield. In every retreat and seminar I have been with committed and faith-filled people who often feel as though they are on the periphery of the Church
The pics I use on these daily posts are sometimes snapped by me, and often borrowed from free-use websites. I thought it might be interesting to move towards using only my own snaps, and then only those taken in the past 24 hours. We’ll see how I go.
I took the pic above yesterday morning on an early walk.
Perhaps we find the miracles of Jesus too difficult to understand. How can we cope with what we may not have seen with our own eyes?
Many people cope with the miraculous by reducing it to what they can understand. They say Jesus just increased the blind man’s psychological vision, or opened his eyes of faith rather than actually giving him physical sight.
Over the years I have celebrated hundreds of funerals, many well prepared with family and friends gathering to celebrate the life of the one they love. There are efficient funeral directors, beautiful flowers, glossy brochures, photographs and video presentations, eulogies and even artificial grass and sterilised sand at the graveside.
