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fr Robert Verrill is the Prior of Blackfriars, Cambridge, and teaches philosophy at Blackfriars, Oxford.
robert.verrill@english.op.org

Readings: Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12; Ps. 45; John 5:1-3, 5-16 'Do you want to be well again?' This is the question

Readings: Micah 7:14-15, 18-20; Psalm 102:1-4, 9-12; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 In this season of Lent, as we think about the renewal

Readings: Jonah 3:1-10; Psalm 50; Luke 11:29-32 What is the sign of Jonah? In today's Gospel, Jesus criticises the crowd for

This weekend fr Robert Verrill OP visited Worth Abbey to speak to this year's Compass participants about Dominican life. Compass

“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled

Last year I attended a non-religious crematorium service of a relative who had died. After a rather depressing eulogy, we

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. It seems rather fitting, that as we

In the letter to the Ephesians, St Paul says "Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun

By fasting, St Thomas means to go without food for a period of time. According to this definition, we are

In order to be virtuous, it is necessary to have emotional responses that are appropriate for the situations in which

Whilst most people would agree that we should be grateful for the good things we have received, thanking someone is

In 1872 the anthropologist Sir Francis Galton did a thorough statistical survey of the health of the Royal Family and

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