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Rev Fr John Daley RIP
Rev Fr John, thank you for your great Apostleship and kindness to all users and workers at Daily Prayers. With a warm heart, your generous support and routine encouragement were openly invited; we knew we could turn to you at any time for your prayers and help. May you now reap the rewards Jesus promised…
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Fr John – Health Update
Fr John has been sitting in his chair today, assisted by the community physio team – a relief for him to be out of his bed. His prayer room has become his bedroom and this is proving a good choice, not only because of it being his favourite room in the house but also because…
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War: Jews and Palestinians
I love and admire the Palestinians. They were in the land many generations before the Jewish people came. The Jews insisted they had the right from the Book of Joshua, the cruellest book in the Bible where the Jews claim God gave them the right of genocide…
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Vatican II
Pope John XXIII had a heart open to the world and longed to invite all peoples to share understanding of life, love and faith with the Catholic Church. He caused excitement and bewilderment in 1959 when he made his statement but his vision was fulfilled when Vatican II opened in the autumn of 1962. The…
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Angels And Saints
Do you know the names of any of the angels? You know the names of the angels that you know, and in the Bible you will discover that there are only three angels who have names: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael…
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Understanding Scripture
Dear People, I am home with you again and very happy. I have been given wonderful care and kindness, received wonderful messages from many of you and I am so grateful. It seems that God wants me to stay with you for a longer period and how grateful I am that you want me to…
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Whites Only
Last weekend I asked if anyone of our community would be willing to imitate the courage of John Howard Griffin, a white man who risked and lost everything when he became black to help the black people in the American Deep South in the mid-20th century. It would be easier now than then but still…
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Love One Another
If you won the lottery would you give the money to those who have suffered abuse, to the bishops and their financial advisers, to local food kitchens, to the desperately poor in…
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Clowns Of God
I am glad to recommend books that I know you will enjoy. ‘The Clowns of God’ by Morris West is one of those. It opens with the cardinals in the Vatican deciding the Pope has lost his mind and the Pope’s desperation that no one will listen to him. God has given him a revelation…
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Abuse In The Catholic Church
Some of you know that I have been involved and trusted in cases of abuse in the Catholic Church over a number of years. Only those directly concerned know what I have tried to do, always knowing they had my support. Last week I saw and heard the ordination of the new bishop of Hexham…
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Mamon Has Claimed Them
The sixth book of the Bible is the Book of Joshua. It is horrifying. The book teaches that God wanted Joshua to exterminate the local people, the Philistines, who had lived there for centuries. Today we would call that genocide. Do you believe God would demand genocide? It is one of the biggest lies in…
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Belief, Love And God
This moment came in my prayer: “I can’t believe in God. I can only love God.” I felt blessed. Many, if not most, even all, people in the world and in our human history could say that. Now it was my turn. Belief is out of reach, but love unites everyone. The human race loves…
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