As we move away from our focus on the Easter event and the Easter experience that defines us as Christians we return to our day to day life, acknowledging its mundane ups and downs. Being a Christian isn’t something for special occasions, something we experience only when we’re at the top of the mountain. As […]
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Given the fact that the Eucharist is the central activity of our faith, the action that marks us out as Christians, it’s appropriate that Easter and the Feasts that follow it should come to its conclusion on this day – a feast recognizing the mystery of the body and blood of Jesus. Body and blood
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If we are inclined to ascribe a human personality to God that would be rather foolish. But equally we are human and we can’t avoid seeing relationships in human terms, whether it be with our dog or even our God. And we can see that throughout the long history of God’s interaction with his people,
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For Easter we use a very large number of scripture readings. There are 9 possible for the Vigil Mass and a whole different set for each of the daytime masses. For Pentecost there are almost as many, but we usually hear just 3 as on a “regular” Sunday. You might feel that Easter gives us
Jesus’s Easter story ends with the Ascension. At least it does in Luke’s telling. As with the beginning of the Easter story, the Resurrection, each of the evangelists takes a different approach on how to describe these events. Mark has a brief reference to Jesus “being taken up to heaven”, Matthew and John have no
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