Pew leaflets
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Church Inclusive: Ninth Sunday After Pentecost 7 August 2022-Month of Compassion
Dearly Beloved Franciscans, August is the month which the Anglican Church in Southern Africa sets aside to remind us of our call to be enleshments of our *compassionate* Christ. It…
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Church Inclusive: Eighth Sunday After Pentecost 31 July 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans, As we celebrate our Children-Youth Service on Sunday, it is with a deep sense of awareness that in a way a child was the first “sacrament” that…
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Church Inclusive: Seventh Sunday After Pentecost 24 July 2022
Dearly beloved Franciscans, Our Sunday Gospel reading has 3 well-known words : “Ask… Seek… Knock…” These words indicate some effort on our part, but note that these are not “……
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Church Inclusive: Sixth Sunday After Pentecost 17 July 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans, Our Gospel reading for Sunday ends with some very telling words in verse 42, Luke 10 : *… only one thing is needed*. What do you believe…
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Church Inclusive: Fifth Sunday After Pentecost 10 July 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans, It is our honour and calling to keep on bearing witness to the sanctity of all life always. In this way we counterbalance the many violent deaths…
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Church Inclusive: Third Sunday After Pentecost 26 June 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans As we hear the Hebrew Scripture Reading this Sunday about Elijah and Elisha, I am struck by the invitation that this holds for so many of us…
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Church Inclusive: Second Sunday of Pentecost 19 June 2022
Dear StFrancis, Dearly Beloved Franciscans With the bitterly cold weather that we’ve recently experienced and will be facing in this coming week as well, what a blessing that we were…
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Church Inclusive: Trinity Sunday 12 June 2022
Dear {$var_srecord:name}, Dear StFrancis, Dearly Beloved Franciscans This weekend is the only major Christian commemmoration which is based on a Doctrine, namely The Holy Trinity. Perhaps part of the gift…
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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…