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Listen!

Friday 31 December 2021

Let the joy of John and the exultant humble praise of Elizabeth’s words inspire our faith, that we might be ever thankful for the Lord’s work of salvation and look all the more steadfastly to his return!

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The language of the Ordinariate

Saturday 18 December 2021

The language of Divine Worship is one of the most obvious parts of the patrimony we have inherited and brought into the Church. Fr Stephen Hill is an Ordinariate priest and doctoral student at the University of Vienna who is undertaking a research project on the language of Divine Worship and its pastoral implications. The […]

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Rejoice in the Lord always

Monday 13 December 2021

St Paul was in prison uncertain whether he would live or die, yet he wrote these words ‘Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say, rejoice.’ He could only do so in the knowledge that God has triumphed gloriously over sin and death and opened the way to eternal joy. He was aware that his citizenship was not of this world but was a citizenship of God’s heavenly kingdom. Let joy be the first characteristic of God’s people in this place!

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Come, bring the prisoner out of the prison-house

Monday 6 December 2021

We are reminded this Advent to ask, ‘What is holding me captive?’ or ‘What am I afraid to let go of that hinders me walking more closely to Christ?’

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See that which is to come

Monday 29 November 2021

Happy New Year! The new liturgical year begins today with the celebration of Advent. Advent carries with it a reorientation of time and a deliberate tension between end of time fulfilment and promise, expectation and deliverance, between looking forward and looking back. We can trust that God’s word is eternal and the present simply a passing moment, and we can look forward to the coming promise with heads held high in the knowledge that our redemption is drawing near.

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Jesus Christ enthroned in Paradise, St Mark's Basilica, Venice. Photographer unknown

Christ, King over all in heaven and earth and under the earth

Monday 22 November 2021

Daniel tells us that the Son of Man will come and all dominion, glory and power will be his. He will reign over a kingdom that is everlasting and universal where all peoples, nations and languages will serve him.

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