31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 8/10

31 October 2016

Homilies

Jesus knew very well the desire of his Mother to pass by as far as possible unnoticed; to remain always in the background. He knew she hated having attention directed towards herself, or hearing herself praised in public. In his...

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31 October 2016

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 7/10

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

After Jesus had ascended into heaven, the Eleven Apostles, with some few others, with one heart and mind, joined together in continuous prayer. This is the first picture given us in the Acts of the Apostles of the early Church: the Church in seed, the Church in her first beginnings...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 6/10

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Homilies

Ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. In the plan of St. Luke’s Gospel, and of our lectionary, immediately after giving us the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus speaks about the prayer of petition...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 5/10

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Homilies

Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples. The few and simple words of the Lord's Prayer summarise, focus, make concrete what Jesus taught about prayer through the...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at the Arundel and Brighton Clergy Retreat: 28/9 (Reconciliation)

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31 October 2016

Homilies

St. Paul sometimes goes in for passages of baffling obscurity, so that commentators are kept busy for millennia, and still they don’t quite get to the bottom of what he’s talking about! But St. Paul also goes in...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at the Arundel and Brighton Clergy Retreat: 30/9

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Hanging on the South wall of the Pluscarden Transepts is a modern tapestry - apparently worth a great deal of money - on which is written a text from Chapter 38...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at the Arundel and Brighton Clergy Retreat: 29/9

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31 October 2016

Homilies

According to the best traditions of monastic life, a man does not leave the world, and go into the desert, and become a monk, for the sake of a life of peace. On the contrary. He leaves the world, and goes into the desert...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at the Arundel and Brighton Clergy Retreat: 28/9

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Homilies

Today’s readings confront us with some very hard sayings. In the book of Job we’ve jumped ahead now from Chapter 3 which we heard yesterday, to Chapter 9. In the passage just before today’s reading