Just a few thoughts
·
Attending
Christmas Services:
Our parish website now
has information about the C-Virus regulations and also links to book your
attendance at a choice of 3 Masses at Christmas.
You can also book your attendance at the church by filling in your details on
the provided booking sheets.
·
Real
change can only come from people who experience the need for change!
Reflection
ü Today’s reading is
a genealogy.
The names have a great deal of shock-value. All human life is there: murder,
treachery, incest, adultery, prostitution…. In the first list of fourteen names
there are three women, an unusual feature: Tamar, Rahab and Ruth. Tamar gave
birth to twins by her father-in-law; Rahab was a prostitute, and Ruth was a
Moabite, a foreigner. In the second list of fourteen, there’s another woman,
Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite. From the roof of his house King David
observed her bathing, and invited her in and seduced her; then he had her
husband killed, so that he could marry her.
At the end of the third section a fifth woman is mentioned: Mary the mother of
Jesus. It is an unedifying litany of names that leads us to Mary and Jesus.
This is the world they entered. Nothing in the Scriptures encourages us to look
at it with rose-coloured spectacles.
ü A Lifetime Commitment - Fr
Richard Rohr
The Signs Of The Times
Ø Good
intentions are not good enough
Ø
The
Illusion Of Invulnerability - Fr
Ron Rolheiser
The Parish Choir members
are saying ‘Hello’
¯ Voice of the Living Light
– St Hildegard von Bingen
Bits & Pieces
v 1859 - Copper Discovered
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