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Church Inclusive: Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, 17 September 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans It would seem that in this life, certainly in spiritual terms, we cannot ever say that we have arrived! Sometimes we feel as if we are walking…
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Church Inclusive: Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost, 10 September 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans How blessed are we to have National Parks and green belts in cities like Johannesburg. Not only are they part of the health of this planet, they…
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Church Inclusive: Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost, 3 September 2023
Dearely Beloved Franciscans, what horror filled our hearts and minds at the deathtoll arising out of the burning of the condemmed building in central Jo’burg in the early hours of…
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Church Inclusive: Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, 20 August 2023
Dearly beloved Franciscans The violence in Haiti continues to escalate as do the kidnappings of women and children, the devastation of the fires in Hawaii: a country that depends a…
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Church Inclusive: Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, 13 August 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans Compassion always presupposes a level of kindness too. And kindness in some way suspends self-absorption and extends to the other in a benevolent, relational, and attentive way.…
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Church Inclusive: Tenth Sunday After Pentecost, 6 August 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans As we begin our sermon series this weekend on creating community, we’re also aware that 06 August is also the traditional date for the celebration of the…
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Church Inclusive: Ninth Sunday After Pentecost, 30 July 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans In the third century CE, when clergy were being put to death by the Roman Emperor Valerian and all the Church’s sacred vessels and precious objects being…
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Church Inclusive: Eighth Sunday After Pentecost, 23 July 2023
What a terrible shock we all experienced this week with the explosion in Johannesburg. The devastation and fear evoked by this untoward incident leaves many of us asking questions: What…
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Church Inclusive: Seventh Sunday After Pentecost, 16 July 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans, it is an honour to have present with us on Sunday, as our guest preacher, The Revd Canon Peter Houston. Peter has lead many pilgrims through parts…
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Church Inclusive: Sixth Sunday After Pentecost, 9 July 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans Apparently, there is an Afghani idiom which says: “you are not a man [woman] until you give your love, truly and freely, to a child. And you…