My history with telling people to shut up has not been a good one! I remember saying it my grandmother … I can’t remember what on earth she was saying to annoy me but I, 7 or 8 years old, remember very well the look that crossed her face … but even today I can’t …
Monthly Archives: January 2000
Sunday Week 3 Year B
Zebedee’s Story If he comes near me ever again I’ll give that boy Jesus a piece of my mind. Hell! I’ll give him piece of my fist. Trouble-maker! Home-breaker! Arrogant, self-centred, son-of-a-… —What do you mean, “who do I think I am?” I’ll tell you who I think I am. You all sit here so …
St Anthony, Abbott and Martin Luther King
Three images, three voices. Round about the year 270 The story goes that Anthony heard this gospel and did what it said: he sold what he had and gave the money to the poor. So began a trajectory that carried him further and further away from ordinary life, deeper and deeper into the desert, down …
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Wednesday after Epiphany
When Moses, high on Mount Sinai, asks to see God’s glory, God does indeed agree to pass by him and reveal the holy splendour. But there are conditions: First, Moses must hide in a cleft of the rock because God’s presence is so powerful it would roast him; and second, since no one can see …
Sunday of Epiphany Year B
Time for an informal millennium survey: hands up if you partied the night away; hands up if you celebrated quietly with friends or family; hands up if you met the New Millennium tucked safely in your bed! To be honest the whole day was a couch potato’s paradise, a channel surfer’s dream. I tuned in …