“This gift of bread and wine, His Body and Blood, which He gave for the first time at the Last Supper is linked directly to the Sacrifice on the cross the following day. This is perfect love: the pouring out of the life of a father – a parent – so that his (her) children may live.”
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Priestly offerings (Sunday I of Lent)
“…the Mass is a Temple liturgy which echoes the worship of the heavenly Temple, and this presence of Christ upon our altars forms the greatest part of the offertory of the Church…”
Quiet, and blessed silence (Sunday VIII of Ordered time)
“…wisdom is gained in silence and listening, rather than in speech, and as the Lord says in our gospel reading today, a foolish man will lead everybody who follows him into the pit he has dug for himself.”
Hand to the plough, but looking back… (Sunday XVIII of Ordered time)
Let’s identify in our readings this weekend not only the miraculous provision of food for the elect people of God, but also the preparation that was required for them to receive it. This was not an easy story at all, miracle or not, and it still isn’t an easy lesson to learn. Let me makeContinue reading “Hand to the plough, but looking back… (Sunday XVIII of Ordered time)”
Reading through the first letter of S. Paul to the Corinthians
This is one of the most popular of the preserved letters of S. Paul, so let’s try and draw a quick summary. Like most big Greco-Roman towns of the first century, Corinth had a large Jewish community, living among almost any number of other religions and philosophy, for this small city was about as metropolitan asContinue reading “Reading through the first letter of S. Paul to the Corinthians”
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