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Ten Top Tips for Preaching
fr Richard Ounsworth offers some tips on how best to preach. It is an undeserved honour to be asked to write
Cleanliness and Godliness
Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year. fr Isidore Clarke shows us how Jesus Christ enables us to understand the true meaning
The Comfort of Religion?
Twenty-First Sunday of the Year. Fr Colin Carr reflects on our tendency to create a comfortable god in place of
The Attraction of Mary
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. fr Robert Ombres explains how the unique relationship between Christ and
A Calm Spirit?
Nineteenth Sunday of the Year. fr Robert Gay uses the rule of St Benedict to reflect on the temptation to
Knowing Our Needs
Eighteenth Sunday of the Year. fr Benedict Jonak helps us to see how Jesus makes us aware of our greatest
Humble Need
Seventeenth Sunday of the Year. fr David Rocks helps us to see how our needs open us to God's grace. Some
The Empty Desert?
Sixteenth Sunday of the Year. fr Fergus Kerr reflects on the significance of the desert lanscape in Scripture. These four verses,
The Love of Learning
Fifteenth Sunday of the Year. fr David Goodill points to the prophetic nature of Jesus' earlier sending of his apostles. We
Eternally Loved
Fourteenth Sunday of the Year. fr John O'Connor shows us how in Jesus Christ we find acceptance. I remember hearing a
The Power to Forgive
Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul. fr Thomas Skeats helps us to understand how evil can only be overcome through
Why Are You Afraid?
Twelfth Sunday of the Year. fr Fabian Radcliffe uses today's Gospel reading to help us with the storms that threaten