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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…
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Church Inclusive: Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, 2 July 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans The calls made upon our compassion continues to feel stretched and over-stretched. More recently we’ve been faced once more with floods and a tornado in KZN, the…
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Church Inclusive: Fourth Sunday After Pentecost, 25 June 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans Since the onset of Covid, there are certain words which have been come to the fore in trying to name what we are going through societally and…
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Church Inclusive: Third Sunday After Pentecost,18 June 2023
Dearly beloved Franciscans, it’s such an inspiration to celebrate children and youth this month opening ourselves up to fresh perspectives and ways of being in the world. What a gift…
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Church Inclusive: Second Sunday After Pentecost,11 June 2023
In so many ways our westernized society has “lost” so many significant rites of passage. Blessedly, we do still have one or 2 rites (e.g. 21st Birthday’s) when we can…
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Church Inclusive: Trinity Sunday, 4 June 2023
Dearly beloved Franciscans, Trinity Sunday is often looked upon with dread by Christian preachers. We don’t/can’t understand this mystery with our minds and maybe this is part of the point.…