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Church Inclusive: Lent 4 Sunday 27 March 2022
Dearly beloved Franciscans Today’s Gospel reading is commonly entitled “The Prodigal Son” . And yet the son’s behaviour isn’t all that aberrant, he feels a bit like any of us…
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Church Inclusive: Lent 3 Sunday 20 March 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans I wonder…how is your Lent going? Hopefully, whatever our Lenten discipline is , it is helping to form us into kinder , more loving people. May the…
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Church Inclusive: Lent 2 Sunday 13 March 2022
Dearly beloved Franciscans As we engage in our Vestry this morning, we are reminded that the word Vestment and Vestry have the same root. So as we receive various reports,…
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Church Inclusive: Lent 1 Sunday 6 March 2022
Dear Franciscans When we say that sin separates us from God are we saying that sin is more powerful that the love of God? Romans 8 : 38-39 clearly states…
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Church Inclusive: Transfiguration Sunday 27 February 2022
Dear Franciscans, As the world agonizes over Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine and historians, economists, journalists, and so on, all share their insights and opinions, I wonder how much of…
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Church Inclusive: Seventh Sunday After the Epiphany 20 February 2022
Dear Franciscans As I’ve been reflecting on this Sunday’s Gospel, especially around the words of “loving our enemies”, I’ve been wondering ….what if before any of us speak we do…
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Church Inclusive: Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany 13 February 2022
Dear Franciscans “Words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch” , these are the 5 languages of love explored in a book of the same…
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Church Inclusive: Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany 6 February 2022
Dear Franciscans This past week there were a couple of news items about schools which were so poorly maintained that school children had to be taught outside under a tree…….assuming…
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Church Inclusive: Forth Sunday After the Epiphany 30 January 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans With things looking so ugly on the border between the Ukraine and Russian and the escalating violence in Northern Mozambique, we need to ask ourselves, “What gives…
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Church Inclusive: Third Sunday After the Epiphany 23 January 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans For so many young people, matric results feel like a “make or break” situation. What has happened in our thinking that we take an ASPECT of our…