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Category: Fr John’s – Most Popular
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Self-assessment!
Don’t bother, say the smart ones. Curl up in your own little world, grumble and grouse about everything and everyone, but don’t get involved because you’ll be criticised for whatever you try and fail to do.
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Christian Unity
“How could you move from the Magi’s gifts to Women Priests via the Death Penalty in last Sunday’s homily?”, asked someone. Simple, by asking you to give your mind to God as a gift on the Epiphany – a wise gift as true as gold, incense or myrrh. Are you in favour of the death…
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Modern Day Slavery
Does someone living on your street or serving you in their job show signs of physical or psychological abuse? Look nourished or unkempt? Often wear the same clothes? Appear withdrawn or frightened? Appear under control or influence? Have little
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Children In The Womb
But they never talked to us about her, nor about their celebrating her birthday, except for a very occasional word. I remember my mother’s saying simply “Remember she is my daughter as much as you are my son.”
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The Holy Spirit
Thirty-three days later he died suddenly. The same cardinals met to elect his successor. On the first ballot Siri, Benelli and Colombo all received good support. In the second ballot, Siri lost and Benelli and Columbo gained support. On the third ballot, Benelli almost reached the two-thirds required but…
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My 50th Ordination Anniversary
Today I celebrate 50 years of priesthood. Thank you for being here in your prayer, as are all those I would love to see today but who are here, also, in prayer. There were 600 people in my home church of St Alban’s in Cardiff that happy day in 1967 – family, brethren, friends, neighbours…
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Praying – Vocations
A month before my final exams in Rome a letter came to tell me I would be teaching in a school in Huddersfield from the September. Four very happy years I was there, teaching all week, helping in the local parishes at the weekend, and earning a good salary which helped support our retired elderly…
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We Are All Invited
Seeking to blame is futile. People choose to believe in God or not, to attend church or not, and no one can touch that freedom of choice. Example is best, persuasion will rarely work and forcing young people to come looks to be counter-productive.
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Vocations To The Priesthood
Would you like to see married priests? No. Would you like women priests? No, no. Would you like to see a married woman priest become a bishop? No, no, no. Nonsense. Fifty years ago in the Church of England they would have said “Nonsense”. Today, married women bishops are a reality. There are more women…
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Eight and a Half Million Deaths!
Since 1967 we have legally killed more than eight and a half million children in the womb by abortion. The figures are public knowledge and proclaimed for different reasons, most obviously as a crime against humanity and as a sign of women’s liberation.