The following was written by the late Erma Bombeck after she found out she had a fatal disease.
If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the ….
| June 23, 2011; |
Lord Jesus, the needs of your people open your heart in love to each of us. You care for us when we are lost, sympathise with us in loneliness and comfort us in mourning; you are closest to us when we are weakest. You love us most when we love ourselves least; you forgive us [...]
When Jesus told his disciples to use the term “Father” to address God they must have been amazed! Jews never addressed God like that. They didn’t dare to. It was considered too intimate, too brazen a way in which to speak to the Almighty. Jesus uses the Aramaic word “Abba” for “father”. The English word [...]
This weekend we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ. The Eucharist that we receive is the centre of our faith, for it is Jesus himself—Jesus who is the Bread of Life. Before we come to communion, we say “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you…..” But by coming to [...]
The first phase of our Creed is: “I believe in God”. But in what kind of God do we believe in? We Christians inherited from our Jewish ancestors something which made them different from the many pagan religions which surrounded them: the belief that there is only one God.
After the death and resurrection of Jesus [...]
It can happen that we lose interest in people, and even become blind to their strengths, when we discover their limitations.
During his passion Jesus discovered the limitations of Peter, yet he didn’t write him off. He continued to believe in him, And in time he came good.
Like Peter, we are weak human beings who are [...]
These days we celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord. This significant celebration traditionally marks the end of our Christmas season and I am sure that as the month of January continues to move, we have once again returned to the familiar and the routine. The Epiphany tells the story of a group of people who [...]
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