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Sunday
25th December 2005
CHRISTMAS
DAY
A child is born for us, a son is given to us; dominion is laid on his shoulder, and he shall be called Wonderful-Counsellor. |
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Sunday
18th December 2005
FOURTH
SUNDAY OF ADVENT
God�s anointed was born by the power of God�s Spirit. He is the Son of God and fulfills God�s promise of an everlasting kingdom for his people.
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Sunday
11th December 2005
THIRD
SUNDAY OF ADVENT
John the Baptist was sent by God to prepare for Christ�s coming. His task was to make them attentive to the Spirit who would be fully present in God�s
anointed.
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Sunday
4th December 2005
SECOND
SUNDAY OF ADVENT
When God comes, he comes with power but also with compassion restoring all things. We can prepare the way of his coming with lives of holiness. |
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Sunday
27th November 2005
FIRST
SUNDAY OF ADVENT
God comes to those who wait for him. Our waiting needs to be prayerful if we are to be truly ready to receive him when he comes. |
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Sunday
20th November 2005
SOLEMNITY
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, UNIVERSAL KING
Jesus, the Lord of all creation cared so much for those in his domain, that he was willing to die, in order to care for them. Those who will finally belong to him, will be those who have shared his care for the hungry, the naked, the lost, the crippled and the strays of this world. |
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Sunday
13th November 2005
THIRTY
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
How often fear and anxiety prevent people from producing their best, from using their God-given talents to the full. In today's parable Jesus shows that a God who inspires fear may inspire little else. His image of God as a loving father inspires confidence and so enables us to develop what he has given us. |
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Sunday
6th November 2005
THIRTY
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The wisdom of God is given to us if we are open to seek it. Having received it, it teaches us to be always open, alert for the approach and the presence of God. With this wisdom God�s coming will not catch us unprepared to receive Him.
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Sunday
30th October 2005
THIRTY
FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
God is full of mercy: he waits patiently for our conversion. No matter how much we may have failed him, he still calls us and encourages us towards goodness. |
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Sunday
23rd October 2005
THIRTIETH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Mission Sunday
By its nature, the Church is missionary. Christ sent her to let her light shine to the whole human race. We cannot leave this task to the professionals. The prophets and the apostles were ordinary lay people when chosen to speak and act in God�s name. As the result of our baptism, each of us has a duty to work for the missions in our own special way and in our own particular place.
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Sunday
16th October 2005
TWENTY
NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The enemies of Jesus try to put him on the horns of a dilemma. Would he offend the Roman occupiers or the sensitive Jewish nationalism. Jesus rises above the situation by reminding them, that God is the supreme authority but yet we all have duties to the civic society in which we live. |
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Sunday
9th October 2005
TWENTY
EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
EMIGRANT SUNDAY
God promised his people a future of great blessings where death and mourning would be no more. Christ came to issue God�s final invitation to this future. Some rejected it, others accepted it but then made light of it. What have we done with our invitation?
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Sunday
2nd October 2005
TWENTY
SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
DAY FOR LIFE
God cares for his people with great love, he gives them many blessings. We belong to His people, but we must remember that we cannot presume upon God's love and patience - we are expected to produce the fruit of what we have received. |
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Sunday
25th September 2005
TWENTY
SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
It takes at least two to make a friendship. God loves us, but there is no
relationship between him and us unless we return his love. In this
relationship there can be no pretence nor living on the past. Our response
to God must continue every day to be real, just as his love for us is a
daily reality.
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Sunday
18th September 2005
TWENTY
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Our human horizons are so limited! So often we calculate the cost of our generosity � giving only to the DESERVING � afraid that our �goodness� may be wasted. Our God is not limited. He takes the risk of his love being wasted and it is only because of such love that we can have hope.
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Sunday
11th September 2005
TWENTY
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
There are times when we may be angry with another and resentful. An important antidote to this is a proper appreciation of our own experience of forgiveness. Once we have received the healing forgiveness of God there should be no place for unforgiving or vengeful behaviour in our lives - that would be to destroy the very forgiveness we have
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Sunday
19th June 2005
TWELFTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
No matter what the trials in this life may be, we are assured of God's love for us. St. Matthew in today's
Gospel - tells us not to be afraid - What greater reassurance is needed:
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Sunday
12th June 2005
ELEVENTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The love of God is absolute protection for us, if we keep his commandments. His sacrifice of himself ensures our redemption if �we obey his voice and hold fast to his covenant.�
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Sunday
5th June 2005
TENTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Practicing our religion every Sunday can become superficial and can also lead to complacency. The antidote to this false religion is God's mercy-firstly the fact that we need it, secondly that we must offer it to others.
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Sunday
29th May 2005
THE
BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
(Corpus Christi)
The sacrifice of Christ re-united us with Christ, once for all. Every time we celebrate the Lord's Supper and receive his body and blood then through him our union with God is renewed.
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Sunday
22nd May 2005
THE
MOST HOLY TRINITY
What a pity that for many the Trinity is just an intellectual puzzle! For the believer It is sign of how close Gad has come to us by revealing (but not reducing) the mystery of his Being. He draws us into the mystery making us his children by the gift of the Spirit.
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Sunday
15th May 2005
PENTECOST
SUNDAY
The first coming of the Holy Spirit on the Church was wind and fire and the telling of God�s wonderful deeds in many tongues. The Spirit also comes as many gifts for the common good, bringing peace along with God�s forgiving power.
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Sunday
8th May 2005
THE
ASCENSION OF THE LORD
World Communications Day
Jesus ascended to heaven so that his influence and power might be felt not just in one place but in all the world. Today he is present everywhere through his Church, bringing all people to God.
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Sunday
1st May 2005
SIXTH
SUNDAY OF EASTER
As Jesus prepared to leave the world he promised to give the Holy Spirit to his disciples. We are his disciples and receive his Spirit but only if we love him and keep his commandments.
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Sunday
24th April 2005
FIFTH
SUNDAY OF EASTER
Most sons resemble their fathers in some way, an expression, the shape of the mouth, but it is only partial. Jesus is the perfect image of his Father, so much so that if we want to get to know God the only way is to get to know Jesus his only Son. |
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Sunday
17th April 2005
FOURTH
SUNDAY OF EASTER
(VOCATIONS SUNDAY)
Sometimes we can lose our sense of direction, we become the prey of
empty fears and false pleasures. Today we are reminded that in Jesus we
have someone who will always guide us right and protect us. If we listen
to him and follow him we will have the fullest possible life. |
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Sunday
10th April 2005
THIRD
SUNDAY OF EASTER
Sudden, unexpected death shocks and confuses us; it is all the more
bitter when it comes to someone whose life is full of promise. Such a
death was not futile for Jesus because it was part of God's purpose.
Like Him we may be called to "suffer these things and enter into glory". |
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Sunday
3rd April 2005
SECOND
SUNDAY OF EASTER
(Divine Mercy Sunday)
We are all a bit like Thomas: unless we see we find it difficult to
believe. However, faith is a way of seeing, seeing beyond the apparent
problems of life to the hope given by the Resurrection of Jesus, the
hope of sharing heaven with Him. |
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Sunday
27th February 2005
EASTER
SUNDAY
Today we face the greatest mystery of our faith, the mystery of how God works among us, bringing new life where before there was only death. With a sense of wonder and with joy, we come today to thank God for the risen life of Jesus. |
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Sunday
20th February 2005
PASSION
(PALM) SUNDAY
Jesus was tortured and humiliated by the pride and self-will of people. He
accepted this fate so as to overcome human destructiveness. His humble
attentiveness to God allows God's power to be active and recreative. |
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Sunday
13th February 2005
FIFTH
SUNDAY OF LENT
Lazarus' resurrection is a figure and type of Jesus' resurrection, and of our resurrection, first to divine life in Baptism and to our definitive resurrection at the end of time. Today we open ourselves to Christ's life-giving Spirit. We pray too for those who are to be given the new life of the Spirit in baptism this Easter.
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Sunday
6th February 2005
FOURTH
SUNDAY OF LENT
We walk in the darkness of this world, often assailed by fear and misgiving. But Christ, the Shepherd-King, the second David, lights up our way for us and cures our congenital blindness as he leads us to his kingdom.
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Sunday
27th February 2005
THIRD
SUNDAY OF LENT
Christ quenches our spiritual thirst with the living water: the love of God which is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. We pray for those who are prepared for this baptism.
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Sunday
20th February 2005
SECOND
SUNDAY OF LENT
In its desire to be self-sufficient, and to do without God, mankind loses itself. The journey back to true humanity was begun with Abraham, who relied only on God's promise. This journey ends with the coming of Christ - in him is revealed the perfection of a humanity in union with God.
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Sunday
13th February 2005
FIRST
SUNDAY OF LENT
As Lent begins we are reminded of Adam's fall from grace and of the reality of sin in human life, we are also reminded that Christ is the new Adam overcoming temptation in himself and so making possible a new life, a new humanity for those who belong to him.
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Sunday
6th February 2005
FIFTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The light of Christ's love has been given to each one of us but it will go out if we fail to use it. We are invited to share our food, our homes, our possessions with the needy so that through us they can see the light of God and give him thanks.
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Sunday
30th January 2005
FOURTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Our weaknesses and limitations can sometimes frustrate us, but they can also lead us to see our dependence on God. If we turn to him as the only source of our life and strength, his power will work through our weakness, and we will be blessed.
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Sunday
23rd January 2005
THIRD
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Sunday within Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
God has given to each of us a potential to be developed. There is a promise in us yet to be fulfilled. Jesus came to bring this fulfilment to everyone and it will be ours when we follow like Peter and the others who lived in Galilee.
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Sunday
16th January 2005
SECOND
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Jesus came as the Servant of God to serve the deepest needs of people. He offered his life to remove the tragedy of sin from human life and so restore us to peace with God, and each other.
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Sunday
9th January 2005
THE
BAPTISM OF THE LORD
At his baptism Jesus was revealed as the Son of God and began his work of bringing the vision of God, his justice and his liberation to people. At our baptism each of us is given a share in this mission, so we become children of God.
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