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• Sunday 26 December 2021 – The Feast of the Holy Family

  December 26 2021
  Thara Benedicta

  Sunday 26 Dec Feast of the Holy Family... Key Message: When one of the family members walks with the Lord, for his sake our Lord Jesus saves the whole family!!

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• Christmas Day, 25 December 2021

  December 25 2021
  Kevin Walters

  Christmas Day Readings: Brightest of star in the darkest of night The Spirit of God revealing His light Innocence lay on a bed of hay Is this what his gentle eyes do say? All wise men play their part

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• Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood wonder

  December 23 2021
  Joe O'Leary

  Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood... Might-have-beens... I remember asking our teacher Pete Connolly what the opening lines of Four Quartets meant and he answered with a pirouette:

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• Archbishop ‘conscious’ of declining clergy numbers

  December 24 2021
  Joe O'Leary

  Declining priest numbers... Did the church hang itself on the noose of celibacy? The functioning of a Christian community should not be so extraordinarily complicated.

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• Church Without Clergy by Dr Harald Prinz

  December 8 2021
  Darlene Starrs

  Church Without Clergy... I happened to come across this article. It is foremost in my mind these days re: What is the Lord intending for the institutional Priesthood? and I am of the opinion that un

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• Christmas Day, 25 December 2021

  December 25 2021
  Thara Benedicta

  Readings Christmas Day... Key Message: God came longing for us from Heaven to the manger. Can we long for Him from earth to Heaven? Homily: The takeaway fro

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• Christmas Day, 25 December 2021

  December 25 2021
  Anselmus Mahulae

  Readings: Christmas Day... Thanks so much Joe O'Leary, your response is so enlightening. Anselm-Medan, Indonesia

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• Christmas Day, 25 December 2021

  December 25 2021
  Joe O'Leary

  Readings: Christmas Day… Is it a good idea to begin a book with its climax? And could anything be more climactic than the Johannine Prologue, with its majestic statement summing up the entire meani

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• Friday December 24 2021. Week Four in Advent

  December 24 2021
  Joe O'Leary

  Readings: Christmas Day... Is it a good idea to begin a book with its climax? And could anything be more climactic than the Johannine Prologue, with its majestic statement summing up the entire meani

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• Brendan Hoban on ‘The Letters of John McGahern’

  December 14 2021
  Brendan Cafferty

  Brendan Hoban: The Letters of John McGahern... Many people have fond memories of things like Easter, Christmas ceremonies, etc. The only time the Late Late Show was ever held in Belfast during Gay By

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