Chotard Doll

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Dear Friends, In this week following All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day, the reading from Luke’s gospel gives us an arresting perspective. Jesus says, “What is the Kingdom of…
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Justin Appel

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Dear Friends, Today’s lesson from Luke’s Gospel includes a story of Jesus healing a woman with “a spirit of infirmity”—a woman who was bent over and…
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Fr Alex Swain

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Beloved in Christ, Today is the Feast of All Souls (otherwise known as the Feast of All the Faithful Departed). Lesser Feasts and Fasts notes that,…
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Fr Matthew Reese

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“After this I, John, looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages,…
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Lisa Bowden

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Friends,  After meditating nine hours a day in silence in a New Mexico monastery last week, what came to mind reading the Gospel for the feast…
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Justin Appel

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Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel lesson, associated with the feast of Ss Simon & Jude, includes Jesus’ commentary about ‘the world’ in John chapter 15. This somewhat…
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Fr Alex Swain

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Beloved in Christ, Today we recall the Feast of Alfred, King of England, who alone has the title “the Great.” He was born in 849. Much…
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Sue Agnew

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Dear friends, Years ago a hairdresser told me, during her mother’s terminal illness, that she didn’t understand why people said “I will pray for her.” She…
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