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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…
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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…