Listen to the Word Author: Daniel McCathy Hardback, 154 pages Available from Redemptorist Publications The highlight of my weekly reading of the Tablet in 2006-7 was the commentary on the Sunday collect/opening prayer by Daniel McCarthy OSB. Cutting-edge scholarship met healthy spirituality. I am hence delighted that these commentaries have been revised and collected together.
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I was surprised to open the Easter edition (11 April) of the reputable Tablet to find the first article was a one-and-a-half page, very confused criticism of part of the Eucharist by Stephen Hough. The qualifications for this article as given by the Tablet is that he “is a concert pianist”. Mr. Hough is “perturbed”
Front page news in our local newspaper (which, by the way as far as I know has still not retracted the false, fabricated papal faux pas it wrote about) today is: “The Maori hongi and the traditional Catholic communion are among the centuries-old traditions being put on hold amid fears over a global swine flu
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I recently attended a suburban Anglican church. It shall remain nameless – as its location etc. is not important. I’ll call it St. Alban for convenience. At most the church building could probably hold 130, maybe 150 people. The community who built it probably never anticipated more than a couple of hundred attending on a
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Here is the link to is a reflection on the Good Shepherd collect/opening prayer for the fourth Sunday of Easter, May 3.
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A good e-friend of mine is making a presentation on the connection between social media, faith, and evangelisation. This friend emailed me for some ideas about this as well as some of the dangers of internet presence. I wrote: 1) I believe in the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints This means I stand
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The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (Hardcover) by Phyllis Tickle (Author) 176 pages Publisher: Baker Books (October 1, 2008) This book is about a very significant development within Christianity – and hence the world. The first point about this book is that it is not large. At around 60,000 words it is
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Richard Bauckham in Jesus and the Eyewitnesses argues strongly for Peter’s perspective behind our gospel “according to Mark”. If you want to get the flavour of this book, a lot of it is online. Papias, writing in the early second century, states that Mark was the “interpreter” of Peter, and that he wrote down (“but
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