Chotard Doll

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Friends, Two members of my family recently acquired hearing aids, and suddenly new worlds of communication and sharing have opened—for those who speak and those who…
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Justin Appel

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Dear Friends, There is something almost contemporary about the scenario in today’s Gospel lesson from John. Here we discover that Jesus’ brothers (likely his stepbrothers or cousins)…
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Mtr Beth Clarke

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Friends in Christ, Acts offers us two fascinating portraits of what is happening in the lives of fairly ordinary people in the growing Jesus Movement: Aeneas…
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Fr Alex Swain

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Beloved in Christ, Today is a feast day for Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, one of the twelve. We will celebrate Mass this evening at 7:00pm, so…
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Fr Matthew Reese

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Dear Friends in Christ, Today’s Gospel lesson (Matthew 16:13-20) is the Confession of St Peter, where Simon bar Jonah—soon to be called Simon Peter—declares Jesus to…
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Sue Agnew

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Dear friends in Christ, Psalm 137 (“By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, * when we remembered you, O Zion”), is a lament…
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Sherry Sterling

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Dear friends, You know when you have a hankering for something, and nothing else will do? Like craving ice cream and trying to satisfy it by…
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Justin Appel

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Dear Friends, I have been thinking recently about the nature of faith, especially how God asks us to be ‘all in’ in our attempt to follow…
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Mtr Beth Clarke

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Friends in Christ, We often remember that Saul, before he became the Apostle Paul, persecuted the early Church. However, Acts uses considerably less sterile language than…
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Fr Alex Swain

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Beloved in Christ, This past week I was at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. I was there not just for cooler temperatures and…
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