After being unable to go to the hills for several consecutive weeks I was quite desperate to do so. The forecast was not particularly encouraging, but I hoped for a rainless day. And actually it wasn’t a bad weather for walk: no rain and warm enough but not hot. But most of the time I was walking in the clouds…
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A friend of mine makes steaks for dinner, and I notice she is cutting off the edge of the steaks. I ask her about it, and she answers that her mother has always done this. So I ask her mother, and she replies that her mother has always done this too. Fortunately I can ask that elderly lady the same…
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‘This is intolerable language. How could anyone accept it?’ These words, taken from today’s gospel, describe the reaction of people listening to Jesus about eating his body and drinking his blood. This is not an accidental crowd of spectators; at least some of them made an effort to cross the lake and to find Jesus; these are people who care.…
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It was supposed to be a glorious return and the triumph of the formerly rejected man. His accusations of the king had put his life in such danger that he’d had to hide in the wilderness and then in exile. His calls to reform had seemed to fall on deaf ears. He’d been blamed as the cause of drought and…
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Last Sunday Jesus fed five thousand men using five loaves of bread and two fish, collecting twelve hampers of scraps at the end. It’s quite an achievement, isn’t it? So it’s hardly surprising the crowd is looking for Jesus in today’s gospel. St John reports them crossing the lake in boats in their pursuit and then finding Jesus in a…