“What, should one man go on toiling, his the craft, his the skill, his the anxious care, leaving all to another, and an idler? That were frustration surely, and great mischief done. Tell me, how is a man the richer for all that toil of his, all that lost labour of his, here under theContinue reading “Vanity of vanities (Sunday XVIII of Ordered time)”
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‘Who is my neighbour?’ (Sunday XV of Ordered time)
“The image of God in man is manifested in community life. And the first building block of our communities is the family.”
Reading through S. Paul’s letter to the Colossians
This is a rather short letter and thankfully without any sign of the politics that had arisen in several of the other churches of the time, such as those of the Galatians and the Corinthians, because of other Christian missionaries presenting a rivalry to Paul’s message with their attempts to initiate the new gentile ChristiansContinue reading “Reading through S. Paul’s letter to the Colossians”
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