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Shroud |
East Sunday
4 April 2010
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‘Simon Peter who was following now came up,
went right into the tomb,
saw the linen cloths on the ground,
and also the cloth that had been over his head;
this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in
a place by itself.’ (John 2.6-7)
The disciples run to the tomb. The beloved disciple
sees the shroud but does not go in. Simon Peter has
the privilege of being the first to enter the empty
tomb and see the grave clothes. The first of the
apostles is the first to enter the tomb. He, head of
the College, sees the cloth that had been over the
head of the master. The precise details are given:
‘not with the linen cloths’ but lying separate,
‘rolled up in a place by itself’, just as Peter is
set apart from the others.
The beloved disciple now enters, sees and believes.
What was there about the cloths that bring him to
faith? Is it because the loving heart of the beloved
disciple sees more easily? Love gives wings to
faith. Love could never accept that Jesus was simply
gone, annihilated, dead, finished. Love perceives
that the love which brought Jesus to the cross must
also bring him to resurrection. Love brings to
knowledge. Love is at the beginning and end of the
journey of faith.
The beloved disciple sees that Jesus must rise and
therefore that the cloths must be left aside. He
knows that Jesus was motivated purely by love, that
he was consumed in love and that therefore no
remainder, no relic, no visible remnant of his
person is left. Love knows that love cannot be held
in a tomb but that the loving Christ must return to
the Love from whom he came. His whole person has
been taken up into Love, taken from the visible into
the invisible, to the God who is Love. Love
perceives all these things.
The cloths are the sign, the clue which the
perceptive heart knows how to read. The empty tomb
and the grave clothes are the first of the signs,
but the other disciples are weak and unsure. They
need more; they must have Jesus to appear to them
and even to eat with them. The teaching of the heart
is not enough. These sensual men need to be
convinced by their senses.
Mary, of course, needs none of this. She needs
neither the empty tomb, nor the appearances nor the
touch. She knows, for she loves.
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Sanctification |
Easter Vigil
3 April 2010
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‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive?’
(Luke 24.5)
When the disciples saw all that Jesus had said and
done, they could not but acclaim with Peter, ‘You
are the Holy One of God’. Jesus was like a casement
window opening onto the vast landscape of the
infinite God. They could see in Jesus not just
virtue but truth, not just the rational but the
personal. Here was someone before whom they could
bow down in awe, the mysterium tremendum et
fascinans, where all thought cases to function
because it is surpassed. They acclaimed him as ‘the
Holy One of God’ because he revealed in his own
person, fully and without limit, the Holy of
Holies.
And yet Jesus goes to his death, to be rejected by
all, and condemned as a criminal and a blasphemer.
How could a man use the divine Name and say ‘”I am”!
For this and, as he states himself, at the command
of the Father who hands to him the cup of suffering,
he must be put to death.
How could the Holy God be so cruel to the one who
best reveals him? And yet it is in the interplay of
life and death, being and non-being, that the God is
best seen. In the knowledge of the height and the
depth, of good and evil, the One who transcends all
is known. Not in just life, not in just death, but
in the contradiction of life and death. And so Jesus
endures this supreme test, and is equal to it for he
has the power of God in him, he has the divinity of
God. He is able to endure annihilation because he
has the fullness of being.
He is, in his human flesh, shown to be
both divine and human. In every aspect of his being,
in his memory and emotions, in his living and dying,
in his intellect and in the sinews of his flesh, he
knows the play of life and death and so is
transformed utterly. In his whole person he is made
holy, because he has been brought to the climax of
life and death as only the Holy One can be. Those
who are weak and imperfect, who do not have the
purity of motivation, cannot endure the pitch of
contradiction between good and evil. They are unable
to bear the burning fire and collapse. But Jesus can
sustain it, and the holiness of the Spirit enters
into his whole person, and not only into his person
but into the whole of humanity for whose sake he
lived and died. All are made holy in the holy.
Those who can see
this world will see Christ present in it, and seeing
Christ they will see the Father. They will stand
amazed at this world, at every blade of grass and
movement of the wind. They will experience the
fascination and awe that belong to God alone, for
all reveals God. All will be treated with holiness
and sacredness, and will thus be saved. Even sin is
made holy. Even the killing fields and the gas
chambers become revelations of the sanctity of God,
because nothing can resist the Holy One.
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Expiration |
Good Friday
2 April 2010 |
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Washing |
Holy Thursday
1 April 2010 |
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People of the
Passion |
Passion Sunday
27 March 2010 |
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Reconciliation |
Year C, Lent 4
14 March 2010 |
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Penance |
Year C, Lent 4
13 March 2010 |
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Sorrow |
Year C, Lent 3
7 March 2010 |
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Conversion |
Year C, Lent 3
6 March 2010 |
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Glory
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Year C, Lent 2
28 February 2010 |
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Exodus |
Year C, Lent 2
27 February 2010 |
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Punishment |
Year C, Lent 1
21 February 2010 |
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Sin |
Year C, Lent 1
20 February 2010 |
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The Word curses |
Year C, Sunday 6
14 February 2010 |
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The
Word approves |
Year C, Sunday 6
13 February 2010 |
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The Word gives
knowledge |
Year C, Sunday 5
7 February 2010 |
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The Word summons |
Year C, Sunday 5
6 February 2010 |
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The
Word favours |
Year C, Sunday 4
31
January 2010 |
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The
Word condemns |
Year C, Sunday 4
30
January 2010
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The sacrament of
baptism. |
Year C, Baptism of the Lord
10
January 2010 |
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Inspiration |
Year C, Baptism of the Lord
9
January 2010 |
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Insight |
Year C Epiphany
3
January 2010 |
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Agnosticism |
Year C Epiphany
2 January 2010 |
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Holy Family |
Year C, Holy Family
27 December 2009 |
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Son of Mary |
Year C, Holy Family
26 December 2009 |
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Divinisation |
Year C, Christmas Day – Mass during the Day
25b December 2009 |
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Jesus, the unique
Saviour |
Year C, Christmas Day – Dawn Mass
25a December 2009 |
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Christ embodies all
that is |
Year C, Advent 4
19 December 2009 |
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John gives way to
Jesus |
Year C, Advent 3
13 December 2009 |
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John foreshadows
Jesus |
Year C, Advent 3
12 December 2009 |
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Christ in the Old Testament
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Year C, Advent 2
6 December 2009 |
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Christ in other
religions
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Year C, Advent 2
5 December 2009 |
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Spirit as gift |
Year C, Advent 1
29 November 2009 |
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The promise of
freedom |
Year C, Advent 1
28 November 2009 |
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Jesus
is sacred |
Year B, Sunday 14
5 July 2009 |
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Jesus is
transcendent |
Year B, Sunday 14
4 July 2009 |
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Jesus contains all |
Year B, Sunday 12
21 June 2009 |
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Jesus is the
prototype |
Year B, Sunday 12
20 June 2009 |
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Wisdom |
Year B, Pentecost
30 May 2009 |
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Jesus abides
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Year B, Ascension Sunday |
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Jesus withdraws |
Year B, Ascension Sunday
24 May 2009 |
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Friendship |
Year B, Eastertide 6
17 May 2009 |
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Jesus recreates |
Year B Easter 5
10 May 2009 |
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Solidarity |
Year B, Easter 5
9 May 2009 |
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Jesus is the
oblation |
Year B, Eastertide 4
3 May 2009 |
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Jesus is the martyr |
Year B, Eastertide 4
2 May 2009 |
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Theology |
Year B, Eastertide 3
26 April 2009 |
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Giving witness |
Year B, Eastertide 3
25 April 2009 |
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Jesus is the
victim
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Year B, Eastertide 2
19 April 2 |
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Jesus descends into
hell |
Year B, Eastertide 2
18 April 2009 |
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The empty tomb |
Year B, Easter Sunday
12 April 2009 |
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Jesus is
victorious |
Year B, Easter Sunday
12 April 2009 |
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One body in Christ |
Easter Triduum: Easter Vigil
11 April 2009 |
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The
thirst |
Easter Triduum: Good Friday
10 April 2009 |
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The
blood |
Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday
9 April 2009 |
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The clothing |
Year B, Passion Sunday
5 April 2009 |
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The Cross |
Year B, Passion Sunday
4 April 2009 |
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Jesus’ sacrifice |
Year B, Lent 5
29 March 2009 |
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The compassion of
Jesus |
Year B, Lent 5
28 March 2009 |
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Jesus redeems |
Year B, Lent 4
22 March 2009 |
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Jesus regenerates |
Year B, Lent 4
21 March 2009 |
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Jesus restores |
Year B, Lent 3
15 March 2009 |
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Jesus exorcises |
Year B, Lent 3
14 March 2009 |
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Jesus the Lamb |
Year B, Lent 2
8 March 2009 |
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Jesus the Man |
Year B, Lent 2
7 March 2009 |
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The Antichrist |
Year B, Lent 1
1 March 2009 |
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The First Adam |
Year B, Lent 1
28 February 2009 |
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Jesus heals by
using the illness |
Year B, Sunday 7
22 February 2009 |
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Jesus heals body,
mind and spirit |
Year B, Sunday 7
21 February 2009 |
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There is no
‘clean and unclean’ |
Year B, Sunday 6
15 February 2009 |
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Jesus cures with a touch |
Year B, Sunday 6
14 February 2009 |
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Jesus’
popularity |
Year B, Sunday 5
8 February 2009 |
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Jesus
cures the sick |
Year B, Sunday 5
7 February 2009 |
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Jesus casts
out the demons |
Year B, Sunday 4
1 February 2009 |
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Jesus speaks
with authority |
Year B, Sunday 4
31 January 2009 |
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Champion |
Year B, Sunday 3
26 January 2009 |
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Intimacy |
Year B, Sunday 3
25 January 2009 |
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Jesus
manifests himself |
Year B, Sunday 2
18 January 2009 |
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The attractiveness
of Jesus |
Year B, Sunday 2
17 January 2009 |
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Jesus empties
himself |
Year B, Baptism of the Lord
11 January 2009 |
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The Gospel |
Year B, Baptism of the Lord
10 January 2009 |
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The Temple |
Year B, Epiphany
4 January 2009 |
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Atheism |
Year B, Epiphany
3 January 2009 |
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Mary, Mother of God |
Year B, Mary, Mother of God
1 January 2009 |
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Mary the Woman |
Year B, Mary, Mother of God
31 December 2008 |
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Jesus’
consciousness |
Year B, Christmas, Mass during
the Day
25 December 2008 |
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“For our salvation” |
Year B, Christmas, Mass at Dawn
25 December 2008 |
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“For us” |
Year B, Christmas, Mass at
Midnight
24 December 2008 |
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The Holy Spirit will
…cover you with it shadow. |
Year B, Advent 4
21 December 2008 |
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Mary the Virgin |
Year B, Advent
20 December 2008 |
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John and Jesus
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Year B, Advent 3
14 December 2008 |
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John recognizes
Jesus |
Year B, Advent 3
13 December 2008 |
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Jesus the Messiah
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Year B, Advent, Sunday 2
7 December 2008 |
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The Christ and the
Angels |
Year B, Advent 2
6 December 2008 |
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Jesus is Lord |
Year B, Advent 1
30 November 2008 |
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Jesus returns |
Year B Advent 1
29 November 2008 |
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The Diocese |
Year A, Sunday 23
7 September 2008 |
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The parish
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Year A, Sunday 23
6 September 2008 |
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Life |
Year A, Sunday 22
31 August 2008 |
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Mortality |
Year A, Sunday 22
30 August 2008 |
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Empowerment |
Year A, Sunday 21
24 August 2008 |
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Faith |
Year A, Sunday 21
23 August 2008 |
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Admiration |
Year A, Sunday 20
17 August 2008 |
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Courage |
Year A, Sunday 20
16 August 2008 |
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Jesus brings harmony |
Year A, Sunday 19
9 August 2008 |
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Jesus the leader |
Year A, Sunday 18
3 August 208 |
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Jesus is fruitful |
Year A, Sunday 18
2
August 2008 |
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The Church is Holy |
Year A, Sunday 14
5 July 2008
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The One Church
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Year A, Sunday 13
29 June 2008 |
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Gathering of the
Church |
Year A, Sunday 13
28 June 2008 |
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The Magisterium of
the Church |
Year A, Sunday 12
22 June 2008 |
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The Church is
apostolic |
Year A, Sunday 12
21 June 2008 |
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Holy Orders
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Year A, Sunday 11
15 June 2008 |
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The College of
Bishops |
Year A, Sunday
11
14 June 2008 |
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Jesus, the universal
friend |
Year A, Sunday
9 June 2008 |
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Jesus comes among us |
Year A, Sunday
10
8 June 2008 |
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Communion with God |
Year A, The Body and Blood of the
Lord
25 May 2008 |
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The covenant, new
and everlasting |
Year A, The Body and Blood of the
Lord
24 May 2008 |
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God the Father |
Year A, Trinity
Sunday
18 May 2008 |
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The Godhead |
Year A, Trinity Sunday
17 May 2008 |
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Confirmation |
Eastertide, Year A Pentecost
11 May 2008 |
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The People of God
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Eastertide, Year A Pentecost
10 May 2008, |
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Jesus is “seated at
the right hand of the Father” |
Eastertide, Year A Ascension
4 May 2008 |
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Jesus “ascended into
heaven”. |
Eastertide, Year A Ascension
3 May 2008 |
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“The Spirit proceeds also from the Son” |
Eastertide, Year A Sunday 6
27 April 2008
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“The Spirit proceeds from the Father” |
Eastertide, Year A Sunday 6
26 April 2008 |
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The divine
indwelling |
Eastertide, Year A Sunday 5
20 April 2008
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The Persons of the
Trinity |
Eastertide, Year A Sunday 5
19 April 2008 |
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Jesus: the Teacher
and the Teaching |
Eastertide, Year A Sunday 4
13 April, 2008
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Jesus the ‘Call’
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Eastertide, Year A Sunday 4
12 April 2008 |
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The divine fervour
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Eastertide, Year A Sunday 3
6 April 2008 |
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Jesus is the
Eucharist |
Eastertide, Year A Sunday 3
5 April 2008 |
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Jesus is alive
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Eastertide, Year A Sunday 2
30 March 2008 |
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Jesus is divine
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Eastertide, Year A Sunday 2
29 March 2008 |
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The testimonies to
the resurrection |
Easter Sunday
23 March 2008 |
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God raises Jesus
from the dead |
Easter Sunday
23 March 2008 |
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We gain access to
the Father |
Easter Vigil
22 March 2008 |
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Immolation
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Good Friday,
21 March 2008 |
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Betrayal |
Holy Thursday,
20 March 2008 |
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The God of suffering
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Year A, Passion Sunday,
16 March, 2008 |
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Atonement
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Year A, Lent, Sunday 5,
9 March 2008 |
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Obedience |
Year A, Lent, Sunday 5,
8 March 2008 |
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Baptism as
enlightenment
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Year A, Lent, Sunday 4,
2 March 2008 |
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Baptism as healing
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Year A, Lent, Sunday 4,
1 March 2008 |
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Baptism as satisfaction
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Year A, Lent, Sunday 3,
24 February 2008 |
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Baptism as cleansing |
Year A, Lent, Sunday 3,
23 February 2008 |
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Jesus
the Word
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Year A, Lent, Sunday 2
10 February 2008 |
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Jesus
the Son |
Year A, Lent, Sunday 2
9 Febuary 2008 |
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Happiness |
Year A,
Sunday 4
3 February 2008 |
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Paradox
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Year A, Sunday 4
2 February 2008 |
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Follow me |
Year A, Sunday 3
27 January 2008 |
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Leave
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Year A, Sunday 3
26 January 2008 |
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Communication |
Year A, Sunday 2
20 January 2008 |
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Jesus the Truth |
Year A, Sunday 2
19 January 2008 |
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The God-man |
The Baptism of the Lord
13 January 2008 |
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The Holy Trinity
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The Baptism of the Lord
12 January 2008 |
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The Mystery |
Epiphany
6 January 2008 |
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Is God fair? |
Epiphany
5 January 2008 |
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Nazareth
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Holy Family
30 December 2007 |
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Son of Joseph |
Holy Family
29 December 2007 |
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Mary, the New Eve
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Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
1 January 2008 |
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Mary the Virgin |
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
1 January 2008 |
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The pre-existence of
Jesus
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Christmas, Mass at Midnight
24 December 2007 |
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‘He came down from
heaven’
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Christmas, Mass at Dawn
25 December 2007 |
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‘He became man’
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Christmas, Mass
during the Day
25b December 2007 |
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God sends his Word |
Year A, Advent, Sunday 4
22 December 2007 |
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Joseph the father
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Year A, Advent, Sunday 4
23 December 2007 |
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John the Baptist the restorer |
Year A, Advent, Sunday 3,
15 December 2007 |
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John is the messenger |
Year A, Advent, Sunday 3
16 December 2007 |
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The world of nature |
Year A, Advent, Sunday 2
8 December 2007 |
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Images of the Image |
Year A, Advent, Sunday 2
9 December 2007 |
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The Divine Purpose |
Year A, Advent, Sunday 1
3 December 2007 |
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The Work of Creation |
Year A, Advent, Sunday 1
4 December 2007 |
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"ascended into heaven" |
Eastertide
Year A, Ascension, 7 May 2005
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The Holy Spirit
proceeds also
"from the Son"
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Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 6, 1 May 2005
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The
Holy Spirit
"proceeds from the Father"
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Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 6, 30 April 2005
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| The
Divine Indwelling |
Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 5, 24 April 2005
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| The
Persons of the Trinity |
Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 5, 23 April 2005
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| Jesus
the 'Call' |
Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 4, 17 April 2005
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| Jesus:
the Teacher and the Teaching |
Eastertide
Year A Sunday 4, 16 April 2005
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| Divine
fervour |
Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 3, 10 April 2005
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| Jesus
is active in the Mass |
Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 3, 9 April 2005
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| Jesus
is alive |
Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 2, 3 April 2005
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| Jesus
is divine |
Eastertide
Year A, Sunday 2, 2 April 2005
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The
testimonies to Jesus’ resurrection |
Easter Monday, 28 March 2005
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| God raises Jesus
from the dead |
Easter Sunday, 27 March 2005
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| All barriers are
gone |
Easter Vigil, 26 March 2005
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| The immolation |
Good Friday, 25 March 2005
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| The Betrayal |
Holy Thursday, 24 March 2005
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| The God of the Passion |
Year A, Passion Sunday, 21 March
2005
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