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Continue reading →: To God be the gloryLuke 3:15-17, 21-22 Today is the first Sunday of Epiphany, the season during which God steps into the world and announces that he is going to make everything OK. Our God isn’t silent or distant. Our God is not a shy god, and the Bible is full of accounts of…
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Continue reading →: ShemaIt is impossible to over emphasise how significant the Shema Prayer is to our faith and to our spiritual practice. Jesus would have said this prayer hundreds of times during his time with us because it is an ancient Hebrew prayer that was central to the Jewish faith tradition, and…
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Continue reading →: EpiphanyToday, January 6th, is the feast of the Epiphany when we celebrate the visit of the three wise men to Jesus, to bring gifts and to praise and worship him as king. Epiphany is a word that means, “revelation” and specifically the revelation of Jesus as the Son of God.…
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Continue reading →: Blessed are you Lord, our God, king of the universe.Blessed are you Lord, our God, king of the universe… When starting to pray, this ancient blessing is one that can be easily used as a preface to all prayer, whether the prayer is intended for praise, for petition, for contrition or just when we need to touch base and…
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Continue reading →: The call to worshipThe call to worship is a crucial part of the Sunday service because it prepares the congregation to focus on God, who is present among them, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It guides our easily distracted minds to a spiritual place, one that has been cleared of mental clutter. I…
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Continue reading →: The love of the LordLuke 10:25-37 What a joyful day, we are soon to celebrate the bringing of God’s light into the world. And the fourth candle of Advent that is shining its light today is the candle of love, the love of Jesus alive in the world. As we journey through the new…
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Continue reading →: Morning offering of St ThereseO my God! I offer You all my actions this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I desire to sanctify every beat of my heart, my every thought, my simplest works, by uniting them to His infinite merits; and I wish to…
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Continue reading →: God deliversPsalm 22:10 On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me you have been my God. How definite and deliberate are these confident words from Psalm 22! When we are born we are sent into the world, set adrift, like a castaways. Many of us…
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Continue reading →: Confidence in the LordHebrews 11:1 “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Doubt and lack of confidence often attacks a person when they are at a low ebb, sometimes when life’s stresses become unbearable and often when there is illness or fatigue. When we…
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Continue reading →: Joy in lifePsalm 100:1-3 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing. Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his: we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Yesterday we lit the Advent candle of joy. Perhaps this…
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