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MESSAGE FROM FATHER MAURICE FOR THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
“It is our continuing judgement, therefore, that it is not possible at the present time for all the faithful to attend Mass on a Sunday, thus fulfilling their duty to God.” This is a sentence from the Bishops` statement issued last week-end. It`s an awkward sentence;...
STATEMENT FROM THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF ENGLAND
On 19th July, the current legislative powers which assist the mitigations against the covid-19 virus transmission will be rescinded by HM Government. Recognising that the pandemic is not over, even without this legislation in place, the Church in England and Wales...
MESSAGE FROM FATHER MAURICE FOR THE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
In today`s gospel, Jesus sends out the 12 to preach repentance and to heal people. What exactly did the apostles say to people, and what became of the people who were in some way converted. These people did not become Christians; that was something quite far in the...
MESSAGE FROM FATHER MAURICE FOR THE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
“A prophet is only despised in his own country” says Jesus in today's gospel. Jesus was and is much more than a prophet, he is the Messiah, the Christ, the one who came to save us from our sins. But he is much more than that, he is the Son of God, the 2nd Person of...
MESSAGE FROM FATHER MAURICE FOR THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
In the gospel Jesus cures two women who are ill. One of them is a twelve year old girl who is variously described in the gospel as very ill, asleep and dead. Jesus wakes her up and lets her begin her adult life (twelve years old was marrying age in her culture). The...
MESSAGE FROM FATHER MAURICE FOR THE TWELTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
We live in a calm part of the universe; there are no exploding solar systems too near us. Marilynne Robinson says in an essay, it's as if we lived in a city submerged in a boiling raging sea, but the city is strangely, almost magically becalmed. The city is completely...
MESSAGE FROM FATHER MAURICE FOR THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
In today's gospel Jesus says “What is the Kingdom of God like, what parable can we find for it.” Jesus never describes the Kingdom of God; when he says what is the Kingdom of God like, he means what can it be compared to. In today's gospel he compares it to tiny...
MESSAGE FROM FATHER MAURICE FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Supposing a meteor hit the earth and reduced the world`s population to just two: a young man and a young woman. Supposing he was a Catholic and she was a Nihilist, he would have to persuade her that together they would have to promote the continuance of human life. ...
MESSAGE FROM FATHER MAURICE FOR THE FEAST OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Today is the feast of the Trinity. The doctrine of the Trinity tells us something about God, that he is three persons so closely united in love that they are one. So we can say God is love. There are all sorts of other things we might want to know about God, what...