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14 June 2009 »
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Michael Duggan has been a long time member of St Mary’s – you will remember how he delighted in being a minister of the Eucharist – albeit from his wheelchair (Though Michael doesn’t see this as necessarily “negative‟; he just sees this as part of the “fallen state” which God in God’s inimitable wisdom permits) Michael is unable to place the host in the hand of the recipient because of cerebral palsy. Many people chose to line up especially to receive communion with Michael.
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13 June 2009 »
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TOTALLY LIBERATED CATHOLIC
Mark4: 35-4
I love this Gospel story for so many reasons; it is full of apt metaphors and guideposts for living our lives.
It starts ”With the coming of evening, leaving the crowds, the disciples get into a boat with Jesus to cross to the other side, and while they are crossing a huge storm blows up and the boat is almost swamped.”
Its amazing how often that it is in the dead of night, when one is all alone with one’s thoughts, that things that would in the light of day seem unimportant, take on an importance and significance, they do not deserve, often we spend the night in deep worry and anxiety, tossing and turning, but in the light of day, we wonder how we spent a whole night worrying about something so insignificant.
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07 June 2009 »
In Homilies »
In the church calendar today we celebrate Trinity Sunday:
We are three, You are Three
When his ship stopped at a remote island for a day, the bishop determined to use the time as profitably as possible. He strolled along the seashore and came across three fishermen attending their nets. In pidgin English they announced to him that centuries before they had been Christianized by missionaries. “We, Christians!” they said, proudly pointing to one another.
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