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The Cross shines forth

Monday 22 March 2021

“God is love”, love which is willing to go to any extent, even the death of the Cross, to call us back from our sins. This is why the Cross is glorious.

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Lifted to life

Monday 15 March 2021

The Lord raised up upon the Cross is the One we are to look towards to find the healing for the sting of death.

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Sermon on the Mount (detail), Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834–1890), 1877; Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark

The fulfilment of the Law

Sunday 7 March 2021

With God’s grace in our hearts, the Law can help to purify our minds, can help us to grow in true love; can help us to grow closer to God.

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Two anonymous engravings combined by Scott LaPierre

Foreshadowing the Sacrifice

Thursday 4 March 2021

The angel of God stays Abraham’s hand, and the story points forward to Christ’s sacrifice through whom the promise to bless all the nations will find its ultimate fulfilment.

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Jésus assisté par les anges, James Tissot (1836–1902), 1886–1894; Brooklyn Museum, New York

A holy Lent

Sunday 21 February 2021

The wilderness was for Jesus, and is for us, a place where God is. There is no comfort we need other than God.

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Jesus heals the leper, unknown mosaic

“I will: be clean”

Monday 15 February 2021

The sacraments are the place where we can seek out Christ, beg his mercy and receive his touch of healing and restoration in the body of Christ.

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