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GOSPEL 12 JULY 2015
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Our Lady Of The Way Kingsbury. GOSPEL 12 JULY 2015. 13 Green Ave, Kingsbury Vic 3083. Phone: (03) 9462 1221. Our Lady Of The Way Primary School. Address: 19 Green Ave, Kingsbury Vic 3083. Phone: (03) 9460 6684. GOSPEL 12 JULY 2015. First Reading: A reading from the prophet Amos 7:12-15. Go, prophesy to my people. This is the word of the Lord. Second Reading: A reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Ephesians Eph 1:3-4. Before the world was made, he chose us in Christ. Now you too, in him, have heard t...
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St. Benedict's Monastery, Arcadia
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St Benedict's Monastery, Arcadia. Photo David Orr OSB). In the history of Christian monasticism in the West, by far the most important figure is St. Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480-548 AD) whose Rule for Monasteries summed up and re-interpreted, for his own day, the teachings of the earlier monastic tradition. A mere 12,000 words, it is not only (in part) a spiritual treatise, but also a handbook of practical instruction on the day-to-day organization of a monastic community. Photo Theo Robinson OSB). These ...
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March 2015 – The Still Circle
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Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Faith. March 28, 2015. John 12: 20-33 (indirectly Jeremiah 31:31-34). March 21, 2015. The Cost of Discipleship. The German theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer issues a blunt warning to those who would be disciples of Christ. Bonhoeffer writes:. Continue reading “John 12: 20-33 (indirectly Jeremiah 31:31-34)”. John 3: 14-21 (indirectly Numbers 21: 4-9). March 15, 2015. Gospel According to John. March 1, 2015. No doubt, many of you have been following the news sur...
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stillcircle – The Still Circle
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Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Faith. Isaiah 1: 1, 10-20. August 13, 2016. You may recall that, a few weeks ago, we explored the reading from the prophet Amos in which the prophet receives a vision of a basket of summer fruit. And you may also recall that this image of apparent abundance was, in fact, an image of corruption and inner decay: it sym. The Sick Young Bacchus. Painted early in Caravaggio’s career; and. David With The Head Of Goliath. August 7, 2016. The biblical scholar and theologian W...
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Acts 2: 1-21/Joel 2: 27-29 – The Still Circle
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Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Faith. Acts 2: 1-21/Joel 2: 27-29. May 24, 2015. In 1897, the British writer H G Wells published his classic science-fiction story,. It tells the story of a rejected and disgruntled man, Griffin, who invents a way to make himself invisible; and who then tries to use his invisibility to become a kind of Nietzschean superman , ruling through the force of his will and the power over others which he. It’s a point of interest for me that Wells focused on. Is tantamount to ...
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July 2015 – The Still Circle
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Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Faith. 1 Samuel 8: 1-18. July 26, 2015. Follow me on Twitter. Brendan's bookshelf: currently-reading. Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America. The Coming of the Anglo-Saxons. High Sobriety: my year without booze. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. Brittany: A Cultural History.
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Trinity Sunday: A Sermon – The Still Circle
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Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Faith. Trinity Sunday: A Sermon. May 31, 2015. I have, on a previous occasion, mentioned the fact that developmental psychologists know that a child is developing empathy when that child learns how to successfully tease other children. It’s an insight that sounds too counter-intuitive to be true afterall, empathy is a good thing, right? But have you noticed how this supposedly modern critique sounds rather like the claims which the early pagan critics made about Chris...
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April 2015 – The Still Circle
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Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Faith. Lamentations 2: 18-22; Ezekiel 37: 1-14. An Anzac Day Sermon. April 25, 2015. April 18, 2015. April 18, 2015. In the Australian legal system, as with most legal systems around the world, a premium is placed on the importance of witnesses, and on the evidence they present to proceedings before a court [1]. Easter Sermon 2015: Mark 16: 1-8. April 4, 2015. Century English Romantic poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. One of Tennyson’s most famous poems is. The Island of Lo...
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1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 – A Wedding Sermon – The Still Circle
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Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Faith. 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 – A Wedding Sermon. May 31, 2015. May 31, 2015. And we can do the same with Scripture. We can take passages out of context, dazzled by their beauty or their power or their poetic grace, and fail to appreciate the broader reality to which they belong. One such passages is the reading we have heard today from. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. And for Paul, that context is. Now, let me be clear:...
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Prophets and Speaking Prophetically: A Reflection – The Still Circle
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Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Faith. Prophets and Speaking Prophetically: A Reflection. August 8, 2015. August 8, 2015. In 1907, H G Wells wrote a novel entitled. The War In The Air. The War In The Air. Was republished in 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain. In this edition, Wells now an old man wrote a short, angry preface, which he concluded with the following words:. What now remains to be written? I told you so you damned fools! A reading of Scripture seems to indicate that there are ...
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