Honour the dead, our country’s fighting brave, honour our children left in foreign grave, where poppies blow and sorrow seeds her flowers, honour the crosses marked forever ours. Weep for the places ravaged with our blood, weep for the young bones buried in the mud, weep for the powers of violence and greed, weep for
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Yesterday our local newspaper reproduced word for word the article from the Times that when Prince Charles meets the pope next week, Benedict XVI will give him a bad-taste “luxury facsimile of the 1530 appeal by English peers to Pope Clement VII asking for the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon”. The
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 16:16-33 Sorrow Will Turn into Joy 16 ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me.’ 17Then some of his disciples said to one another, ‘What does
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Western Christians celebrated Easter Day April 12. Eastern Christians celebrate Easter Day this Sunday April 19. You can find out more about the dating of Easter here. And a bit more about Eastern Easter here and here. From Sunday, both Western and Eastern Christians are in the Easter Season.
Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 16:1-15 16‘I have said these things to you to keep you from stumbling. 2They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they
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In discussions about such things as money, sex, and authority I regularly underscore that these have powerful human energy that can be used for great good or great evil. Fr. Ron Rolheiser’s recent column on spirituality and sexuality expresses this thought in relation to sex with insightful balance. For those of us who see ourselves
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 15:12-27 12 ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 15:1-11 Jesus the True Vine 15‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. 2He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes* to make it bear more
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