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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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  • Do Irish nuns need to listen to their American sisters?

    August 25 2014
    Kathleen Faley

    Mary @6, some years ago I remember a nun saying that while they did have a Solemn Religious Profession she regretted the fact that it had no Sacramental Status such as Priests have when they become Or

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Good to see you back with a contribution, Soline...and a very interesting one....Petros and Petra

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    But Padraig as a priest and as part of the Hierarchy in the Church, you do have authority. How you interpret Scripture is received in a far different way than how my interpretation of Scripture would

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  • 31st August. Sunday 22 in Ordinary Time

    August 31 2014
    Deusdedit Patrick Kumbani

    It is a good reflection ...understanding the cost of following Jesus

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    Soline Humbert

    Could it be that some of the original meaning may be lost in the English translation of this passage originally in Greek? Where two different words,petros and petra,are used in Greek, they are transla

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