If only we could replicate this miracle on a massive scale world hunger would be gone in a flash!
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I have to admit that neither parable in today’s gospel is particularly close to my personal experience. I have never worn any kind of jewellery. I actually used to use a metal detector, but only for a short period of time and searching for a very specific ‘treasure’, namely for arrows I had shot into the turf in the early…
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How familiar are you with farming? That was my opening line last Sunday, and I have to repeat it again today because the parable we’ve just heard requires quite detailed agricultural knowledge, as well as geographical and historical. I’m not going to pretend I have such knowledge off the top of my head, so let me share with you what…
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How familiar are you with farming? I don’t want to sound like a grumpy old man (though I am one and even have the T-shirt), but it seems that with each new generation we gradually lose the connection between the food on our tables and plants growing and animals living in the fields. Once I took a couple of my…
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‘You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church.’ One of the twelve closest disciples of Jesus gets this announcement in response to his confession of faith in Jesus as the Son of God. It’s a short sentence, but full of meaning and significance. Firstly, Jesus addresses the man in question not by his given name Simon,…