Thursday, July 17, 2014

The spirit of goodness

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Mark 3:20-30 20 and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. 21 When his family heard it, they went out to restrai...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Break to make

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Matthew 14:14-21 14 When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. 15 When it was evening...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Matthew 20:1-16: Exploring a theology of football

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Matthew 20:1-16 20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Experiencing Pentecost: Go where the spirit leads and build relationships

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Acts 2: 1-13 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like t...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Maundy Thursday: A call to be equal

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The breaking of bread, sharing of the cup and washing of the feet is perhaps the strongest message of love and sacrifice that comes from Ch...

Feet washing: Reading the scriptures publicly and sensually

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Sensuality is expressed in the most mundane and simple terms and yet it has its own complexity which attaches a certain sacredness to it. I...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Palm Sunday: Give peace a chance

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Palm Sunday is perhaps one of the most popular pictures that we may remember from austerity and popular memory. The picture of women and m...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Come Lord Jesus, set me free!

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Luke 13:10-17 10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11 And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that h...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas: The equinox on which the church rode three decades.

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The Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, H.H. Moran Mor Iganatius Zakka I Iwas is no more. The Holy Father who lead his sheep for 34 yea...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Jesus healing the paralytic: Moving beyond our paralyzed selves

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Mark 2:1-12. 2 When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 So many gathered around that there wa...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Lent as a way of healing ourselves of prejudices and wrong notions

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Luke 5: 12-16 12 Once, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man covered with leprosy.[b] When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his fac...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

"Come on man, be a woman": Turning into a woman on women’s day

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March 8th is being commemorated as International Women’s day in all parts of the world. This year the United Nations theme for Internation...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Valentine’s day: Let’s make love, not war

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“And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do...
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Nineveh lent: Get up and call God

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The end of the three day lent has brought us to the point of asking, “now what?” Three days of lent and even conventions in certain places ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Nineveh lent: Let the anger go!

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Lent is a perfect time for us to realise that there is immense anger inside us. Many a time anger is left to fend for itself, while we pray...