… his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been worried to death looking for you.” (Lk 2:48)A pretty typical interchange with a teenage son. It continues as you might expect: he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you realize …?”And they […]
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Christmas has arrived, our celebration of the Nativity of the Lord. But this Christmas is disrupted, by illness, by fear, by divisions between people which seem irreconcilable. And yet this is the season of “peace and goodwill to all”. Really? Maybe we ourselves are fortunate to be able to celebrate with family and friends, but
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Today we hear a story of two women (Lk 1:39-45). Two pregnant women supporting each other, as women have done since the beginning of human time, and doubtless will for all time to come. We hear something of their intimacy. One very young and probably still trying to understand what has just happened to her.
Fourth Sunday of Advent Read More »
Two weeks to Christmas! I remember that as a child it was about this time that Christmas started to seem close, the excitement grew, the wondering what presents were coming. We get some of the same sense of excitement, of expectation, in the people in Luke’s account of John the Baptist (Lk 3:10-18). Even the
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One of the longest lasting achievements of the Romans was their road system. Many major highways in Europe still follow the routes of Roman roads. Their engineering skills were not matched until the Eighteenth Century and we still don’t fully understand how they built some of their tunnels given the limited surveying techniques they had.
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