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31 July, 2013. Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week

Ready for Radical Choices?

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30 July, 2013. Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week

The Way of the LORD’s Covenant

The giving of the Law is reported in Exodus chapters 19-24, but the theological commentary on it (chapters 32-34) is key to the entire Book of Exodus

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29 July, 2013 (Monday). St. Martha, Memorial

Martha, the Cheerfully Practical One

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17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 28 July (Presider’s Page)

We can ask God for help whenever we need to, today or any day. This Sunday, we gather to worship God who is always concerned for us.

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28 July 2013. 17th Sunday (Homily notes)

Joined Together in Faith and Prayer

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27 July, 2013. Saturday of the Sixteenth Week

A Covenant of Justice

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26 July, 2013. Friday of the Sixteenth Week

Fundamentals of Faith

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25 July, 2013. Monday, Feast of St James, Apostle

Patron of environmentally friendly tourism

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24 July, 2013. Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week

Perseverance has its Reward

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23 July, 2013. Tuesday, Feast of St Bridget of Sweden

Bridget for today

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22 July, 2013. Monday, Feast of St Mary Magdalene

A woman of faith and love

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16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Presider’s Page

As we gather on this Summer Sunday, we are challenged to be hospitable, welcoming people. We worship the God who always has a welcome for us.

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21 July 2013. 16th Sunday of Year C.

A House of Hospitality

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20 July, 2013. Saturday of the Fifteenth Week

Our racial attitudes

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19 July, 2013. Friday of the Fifteenth Week

Celebrating Life

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18 July, 2013. Thursday of the Fifteenth Week

The Ever-Present One

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17 July, 2013. Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week

Who can be God’s Instruments?

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16 July, 2013. Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week

Faith and Miracles

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15 July, 2013. Monday of the Fifteenth Week

Peace and Conflict

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15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Presider’s Page

The beautiful story of the Good Samaritan is told again at today’s Mass, with its challenge to us to look after others, as the Good Samaritan did. We gather to worship God who showed us what love means.

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2 Oct 2022 – 27th Sunday (C)
October 2 2022
Thara Benedicta
Key Message: Faith commands miracles!! Homily: The first reading reverberates our famous question, "Why Lord, why? When God, when?" We keep asking our Lord Jesus, "Why did this bad thing happen to us? Why are good people suffering? When will this bad thing end?" and so on. The more we try to reason out, the more we get into confusion mode. We would have lost the little peace we had before we started worrying. God does not plan to put anything bad in our life. For example, when God created the world, He saw that everything was good. He also prepared a plan for us to have a prosperous future. He did not create anything evil. But Satan wanted to spoil the plan and 'planted' the tree of good and evil. So God told Adam and Eve, "Do not eat from this tree". Then they fell into the trap of Satan. But God restored mankind by sending His only Son, Jesus. Let us also look at the life of Job. God had put a fence around him to take care of him. Then Satan took away everything from Job. But God restored it. Similarly, God will create a good prosperous plan for our future. But Satan will create some problems for us to hamper us from living the prosperous life our Almighty God had planned for us. Whenever we have problems in our life, we should always believe that God will take it and work it out in a good way for our future. Further in the first reading, God tells Habakkuk to write down the vision God has for them, so plainly that even a person who runs can read it. Let us ask God to give us an understanding of the vision He has planned for us. Let us write it down on a piece of paper and keep it in a place where we can easily see. Next time, when we unconsciously wonder, "Why God why, when God when?", we will understand that God has a wonderful future prepared for us. In my younger years, I have often wondered why did our Lord Jesus Christ say, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you." What did He want to tell us by referring to a mulberry tree? The answer is found in the Gospels. The woman who had the issue of the blood had the faith of a mustard seed. With that faith of a mustard seed, she was able to uproot the disease (her mulberry tree) from her body. She worked out her miracle instead of openly requesting Lord Jesus. Our Lord Jesus did not even know that this miracle had taken place. Her faith drew the grace from Him even without our Lord's knowledge. Our Lord was having fun in the situation searching for whom He had cured unknowingly. Hereafter, when a problem arises, let us say, "Lord Jesus I know that you surely have the solution for this problem. You will surely take care of the problem. Thank you Jesus for solving it!!" Faith commands miracles!! We can even surprise our Lord Jesus by our faith. In the Gospel, our Lord Jesus did not get surprised with the huge crowd of people thronging to Him. He was surprised only with deep faith or the lack of faith. For example, when the centurion said, "Your word is sufficient enough to cure my servant", the Lord Jesus was happily surprised. When the people of His own village did not have faith in Him, He was surprised sadly. Faith surprises Jesus!! In the midst of the huge crowd, the distressed woman walked silently and boldly touched the hem of the dress of our Lord Jesus. Others in the crowd also touched Jesus, but nothing happened. In faith one person touched just the hem of our Lord Jesus, a miracle happened!! Faith yields different results for the same effort!! In the second reading, the Apostle Paul says, "God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and self-discipline". We can achieve our mission with this spirit of boldness and power which our Jesus has provided for us. We should realise that we are bestowed with the spirit of boldness. Why did God place a Red Sea in the path of Israelites when they were coming out of Egypt? He could have taken them through the other route. But He made them cross the Red Sea with songs of praise and joy!! All He wanted them to do was "Keep going. Do not stand perplexed". When they proceeded, the Red Sea parted and paid respect to them. Our 'problematic Red Sea' will also part and pay respect to us when we cross it looking at the face of our Jesus. Even if 'our Red Sea' is too big and too deep, no problem. Saying the name of our Jesus we can keep walking through it. The 'Red Sea' will give us a way. The bigger the 'Red Sea', the greater the respect we will receive. The Apostle Paul says that we have already been blessed with a spirit of self-discipline. We do not know what we are blessed with, the spirit of self-discipline, isn't it? We have the grace to be disciplined and our success depends on making use of this grace. Disciplining the mind is especially important. Having an ambition in our life will make our mind focus on useful things. We can study how much of our "thinking time" we spend usefully. One person commented, "I used to waste a lot of my thinking time earlier, unconsciously. When I used to feel bored or whenever I felt down, I analysed what were the things I was thinking. They were all unnecessary and not doing any good for the future. So I started to listen to something good when I was doing easy chores. At the end of it, apart from finishing chores, I felt energetic too." Let us live a disciplined thought life. If we are disciplined in our mind, our lives will become powerful. Let us have a vision for our life, the same vision which our God has already planned for us. We can achieve the vision by walking in faith boldly and with self-discipline. Nothing can keep us from the will of God. If we have failed till now, our God will prepare another plan for us, plan B. So let us walk forward not reminding ourselves of our past failures. Our Almighty Father has filled our future to be prosperous. Let us keep going, not stand perplexed!!
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1 Oct 2022 – Saturday of Week 26
October 1 2022
Soline Humbert
Saint Thérèse would have enjoyed Sr Joan Chittister's commentary on Job's daughters being given both a name and an inheritance! http://acatholicwomansplace.blogspot.com/2013/01/joan-chittisters-jobs-daughters.html?m=1
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Diocesan boundaries set down in 12th century unfit for 21st century
September 27 2022
Sean O'Conaill
" ...it is unthinkable that an Irish synodal process would not engage with the question of restructuring dioceses when there is such an urgent need to do so." More urgent than discovering, after over half-a-century of non-synodality, what vital faith still has us in the same boat together and figuring out how we are to stem the exodus of the young? The clerical resources available for that short-term 'go' at synodality in 2021-22 were obviously stretched to the limit, and, unless we see an initiative this autumn re that crucial faith formation issue, 'synodality' could be merely a memory by the spring of 2023. It wasn't the diocesan structure that started the rot, so restructuring just now, when the end-point of the 'shrink' is still unknown, may not strike many as the topmost issue. That doesn't preclude a sub-group of enthusiasts such as Dr Duffy being delegated the task, obviously.
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Brendan Hoban: Religious faith was the bedrock for the Queen
September 23 2022
Sean O’Conaill
Given that only a sincere faith could have allowed Queen Elizabeth II to stick so solidly to her constitutional duties, to surmount the tragedies and very public humiliations of close family members - and even gracefully to address the challenge of a reconciliatory visit to Ireland - there was obviously a limit to the extent that she could truly ‘get’ Jesus’s message re the incompatibility of great wealth and the kingdom of heaven, or see that the institution she represented was an obvious handbrake on the ‘levelling up’ that the Tory party now claims to espouse. She was as much a prisoner of ‘the crown’ and its castles as an heiress to them. It is not therefore difficult to see why her observant faith coincided with the closure of over 1000 Anglican churches in Britain during her reign. How could the professed faith of a church so constitutionally constrained gain wider traction as a commitment also to social justice and equality? There too a clear discernment of the sins of pride and covetousness - the sins that undergird injustice - was historically off limits. But for an accident of history this conundrum could now be for an English Catholic hierarchy to resolve, and it would be that Catholic church that would find itself described by the UK left as ‘the Tory party at prayer’. Sooner or later it is for church leaders so situated to either put up with such constitutional constraints - and watch the faith and the Gospel itself lose credibility - or to see and to call out the historical compromise that lies at the root of the separation between a sincere egalitarianism and an observant Christian faith. An established Christian church is also an historically doomed church, because the essence of establishment is assent to social inequality and the moral inertia and hypocrisy of a privileged social elite. Would there ever have been a Karl Marx or an atheist backlash against Christendom if Christendom had ever been truly and deeply Christian? Our current Irish Catholic hierarchy may also be in deep historical trouble, but I doubt that they envy their counterparts in the Church of England.
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