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Ash Wednesday: Holy fasting

Download PDF Jl 2:12-18 ‘But now – declares Yahweh- come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning’ Tear your hearts and not your clothes, and come back to Yahweh your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in faithful love, and he relents about inflicting disaster. Who knows […]

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Strengthened by the tests

Download PDF 1 Pet 1:3-9 Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into a heritage that can never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away. It

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The measure of God

Download PDF Lk 6:39-45 Jesus told them a parable, ‘Can one blind person guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? Disciple is not superior to teacher; but fully trained disciple will be like teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the great log in your own?

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Responsibility for our actions

Download PDF Jas 5:1-6 Well now, you rich! Lament, weep for the miseries that are coming to you. Your wealth is rotting, your clothes are all moth-eaten. All your gold and your silver are corroding away, and the same corrosion will be a witness against you and eat into your body. It is like a

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Seize the present day

Download PDF Jas 4:13-17 Well now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow, we are off to this or that town; we are going to spend a year there, trading, and make some money.’ You never know what will happen tomorrow: you are no more than a mist that appears for a little while and then

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Aspects of faith

Download PDF Mk 9:14-29 As they were rejoining the disciples they saw a large crowd round them and some scribes arguing with them. At once, when they saw him, the whole crowd were struck with amazement and ran to greet him. And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” A man answered

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