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• 1st March 20205th March 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  Jesus’ testing in the wilderness

  

  Jesus’ testing in the wilderness was similar to the test which Adam and Eve underwent when God made them stewards of his creation and sharers in his glory and power. […]

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• 24th February 2020 Categories: Church, Humanity

  Why do we receive ashes on Ash Wednesday?

  

  The following is a condensed version of an article by Father Michael Van Sloun, pastor of St. Bartholomew in Wayzata, that first appeared in 2008 in The Catholic Spirit. In […]

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• 23rd February 202024th February 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  With loving-kindness and mercy

  

  What makes Christianity distinct from any other religion? It is grace – treating others, not as they deserve, but as God wishes them to be treated – with loving-kindness and […]

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• 16th February 202022nd February 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  Oh, how I love your law!

  

  Jesus taught reverence and respect for God’s law – reverence for God himself, reverence for the Lord’s Day, reverence or respect for parents, respect for life, for property, for another […]

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• 9th February 202022nd February 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  His word is a lamp

  

  Lamps in the ancient world served a vital function, much like they do today. They enable people to see and work in the dark and to avoid stumbling. The Jews […]

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• 2nd February 202022nd February 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  Ask the Lord to renew your faith

  

  Jesus is the new temple (John 1:14; 2:19-22). In the Old Testament God manifested his presence in the “pillar of cloud” by day and the “pillar of fire” by night […]

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• 26th January 202022nd February 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  What is the good news?

  

  Jesus takes up John’s message of repentance and calls his hearers to believe in the good news he has come to deliver. What is the good news which Jesus brings? […]

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• 19th January 202022nd February 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  this is the Son of God

  

  John calls Jesus the Lamb of God and thus signifies Jesus’ mission as the One who redeems us from our sins. The blood of the Passover Lamb (Exodus 12) delivered […]

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• 12th January 202022nd February 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  Let us rise with him

  

  John preached a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins (Luke 3:3). In this humble submission of Jesus we see a foreshadowing of the “baptism” of his bloody death […]

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• 29th December 201922nd February 2020 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  Men, be like Joseph

  

  Joseph was given a unique task as the guardian and protector of Mary and of Jesus. What can we learn from the example and witness of Joseph? Joseph is a […]

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• 22nd December 201923rd December 2019 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  Are you ready to believe

  

  Mary had to face an enormous challenge. She was asked to assume a burden of tremendous responsibility. It had never been heard of before that a child could be born […]

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• 15th December 201923rd December 2019 Categories: Church, Sunday Meditation

  Fingers pointing to Jesus

  

  John is the last and greatest of the prophets of the old covenant. He fulfilled the essential task of all the prophets – to be fingers pointing to Jesus Christ, […]

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