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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Father McCarthy provided the teaching about the background to the significance of the place of the "rock". We know that the new testament is written from the geographical, historical, political, and c

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  • Issues arising from the revised English of the Roman Missal

    August 23 2014
    MM

    Joe, comment 5, that's scary. I hope it is not the future church we are sleep-walking into. Sometimes I am tempted to believe I should just keep quiet and accept things in the church just as they are,

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Soline Humbert

    @6 Nuala,ever so mindful of not transgressing by digressing, I can only say that your comment on being part of the "invasive species" reminded me of Mary T Malone 's description of the " intrusions of

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    Thanks Soline for the quote and the link to Sr Irene McCormack. Sr Irene was executed for her witness to her faith and her solidarity with the poor. How could anyone doubt not only the sincerity of he

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    JohnM

    There are different kinds of authority. There is the kind that derives from official position, eg taoiseach, judge or bishop. (Positional authority) There is also the kind that derives from prove

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Soline Humbert

    @8 Eddie, now you have me confused! What confusion exactly are you accusing me of? While I make no claim to being learned, as one whose first language is French ,with nouns being grammatically masculi

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    The Aramaic word Kephas is behind the Greek Petros & Petra. It occurs once in John, four times in 1 Corinthians, and four times in Galatians. Kieran O'Mahony OSA (Script

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  • A glimpse of the past fifty years with the Augustinians!

    August 26 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Happy Feast Day of Augustine to you! I am pleased to have knowledge for this year's Feast Day of St. Augustine, that there were 2 Augustinian priests, by the names of John and Francis Starrs, who were

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  • A glimpse of the past fifty years with the Augustinians!

    August 26 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    Seamus, those of us who have known you have been privileged. The people of Currie and Balerno, and Dundee too, still miss you, even after all those years; a legend in your own lifetime.

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    Nice question, Soline. In fact in classical Greek, back to Homer,'pétra' was not just a big stone or even a foundation stone, or even the stone rejected by the builders which ended up as the chief co

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