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  • 05 May 2024 – 6th Sunday of Easter (B)

    May 5 2024
    Sean O’Conaill

    #2 “And, of course, that vengeful Father image was “the” teaching for virtually all of our Church’s history.” Not so, Paddy. You truly do need to read both Wolfgang Palaver’s ‘René G

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  • 12 May 2024 – The Ascension of the Lord, (A, B, C.)

    May 12 2024
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: Like our Lord Jesus, can we ascend to Heaven victoriously? Homily: Our Lord Jesus started His missionary journey after He received the Holy Spirit in t

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  • 05 May 2024 – 6th Sunday of Easter (B)

    May 5 2024
    Thara Benedicta

    In Genesis 4:10, when Cain killed Abel, the LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground." Our loving Father did not want to punish Cain at this poi

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  • 05 May 2024 – 6th Sunday of Easter (B)

    May 5 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    In 1974 I was a bumptious participant in a month-long seminar at the University of Leiden, chaired by Hendrikus Berkhof (author of Die Theologie des Eusebius von Caesarea, 1939). Having just completed

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  • 05 May 2024 – 6th Sunday of Easter (B)

    May 5 2024
    Michael Braun

    Dear Paddy, might I suggest that you read "On the Incarnation" by Athanasius. It might help clear up the "vengeful Father full of wrath" image. Peace and blessing to you

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  • 05 May 2024 – 6th Sunday of Easter (B)

    May 5 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    Paddy, I'm never quite sure what you are criticizing: "Now, just a few weeks go we were remembering the cruel, brutal death suffered by Jesus to placate his vengeful — not very loving — Father to

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  • 05 May 2024 – 6th Sunday of Easter (B)

    May 5 2024
    Paddy Ferry

    I have been to Mass twice today so I have had ample time to contemplate on today's readings. There is so much love going around. The 2nd reading, 1 John 4:7-10, begins by telling us that we must "let

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  • 05 May 2024 – 6th Sunday of Easter (B)

    May 5 2024
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: The more desperate we are to receive the Holy Spirit, the more we will be infilled with the Holy Spirit!! Homily: Testimony: One day when I was in my be

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  • 12 May 2024 – The Ascension of the Lord, (A, B, C.)

    May 12 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    ‘Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him, and ret

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  • Tony Flannery – guest speaker at Empowering Ourselves: Flourish and Thrive

    May 2 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    There is much, much more delight, wisdom, human and divine understanding in Scripture, the Fathers, the Saints, and the great Theologians of the Christian churches than Irish Catholics seem ready to r

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