Tag: Advent
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Paul on Paul – 19th December 2021
Hebrews 10:5-10 This Sunday is the 4th and Final Sunday of Advent and the Church, through our readings from Scripture this week guide us to consider the greatest of all the Christian Virtues – Love. But it is not always easy and Lov – ture, proper love – always invovled sacrifices of the self in…
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Paul on Paul – 12th December 2021
Philippians 4:4-7 On Gaudete Sunday, the 3rd Sunday of Advent – we focus on Joy. This Sunday’s 2nd Readings implores us to be happy to to pray for what we need – but how can we be happy when our praye appears to be unanswered. That answer lies in Joy.
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Paul on Paul – 28th November 2021
1 Thessalonians 3:12 – 4:2 HAPPY NEW YEAR! As we enter the Season of Advent, the Church invites us to ponder the virtue of ‘Hope’ – and what that word means to us as Christians in our Salvation History.
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Paul on Paul – 5th December 2021
Philippians 1: 4-6, 8-11 On the 2nd Sunday of Advent, the Church asks us to reflect upon the virtue of Faith – and the 2nd Readin this Sunday gives us a way yo do that, by showing the fundemental important of Love in true faith.
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Paul on Paul – 20th December 2020
Romans 16:25-27 As we approach the end of Advent, we read the end of St. Paul’s letter to the Romans – and prepare for ‘the revelation of a mystery kept secret for endless ages’.
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Paul on Paul – 13th December 2020
1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 The 2nd reading this week captures the spirit of ‘Gaudete’ Sunday. The Birth of Jesus is something about which we should always rejoice.
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Paul on Paul – 6th December 2020
2 Peter 3:8-14 This week, inspired by a recent podcast – we consider a passage from St. Peter’s letter and ask what it means to be Holy in the sigh of the Lord.
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Paul on Paul – 29th November 2020
1 Corinthians 1:3-9 The Opening of a New Liturgical Year and the Opening of one of St. Paul’s longest Scriptural letters. We can use the latter to help guide us in the former and, after a very difficult 2020, look at what we must take forward with us.