St Peter Faber Jesuit Community (4)
2024 (4)
Just before today’s first reading, at the start of this 18th chapter, we’re told that:
When David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. (1 Sam 18:1)
Unlike Saul who herded donkeys and …
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Read more...On Wednesday, we heard from Brendan about how we should focus on our reconciliation with God, or rather, God’s reconciliation with us – and Brendan was right to remind us, as St Paul did, that “God has reconciled the human world to himself in Christ – fundamentally and …
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Read more...“Beware false prophets” Jesus says. For it is “by their fruits [that] you will know them”.
Actions speak louder than words, and hypocrisy and inauthenticity should be warning signs for Christians in their leaders.
You will recall how yesterday Steve intended to intimate how …
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Read more...Remembering how the LORD came to the exiled Israelites in Egypt, the first reading tells once again how his people are asking for a sign. Psalm 85 is celebrating the end of that exile, many years after the prayer of the Prophet Micah in our first reading. In our Gospel Jesus …
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