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Give 180 seconds (yup, just 3 minutes) to listen to an inspiring reflection on each Sunday's readings. Contributing priests (so far): Fr Bernard [b]Barlow[/b], Mgr Keith [b]Barltrop[/b], Fr David [b]Barnes[/b], Fr Augustine [b]Connor[/b] CFR, Fr Peter [b]Cullen[/b], Fr Anthony [b]Doe[/b], Fr Dermott [b]Donnelly[/b], Bishop Terence [b]Drainey[/b], Fr Michael [b]Dunne[/b], Fr Julian [b]Green[/b], Fr Marcus [b]Holden[/b], Fr Javier [b]Igea[/b], Fr Ian [b]Kelly[/b], Fr Michael [b]Krychiwskyj[/b], Fr Stephen [b]Langridge[/b], Mgr Leo [b]Maasburg[/b], Fr Emmanuel [b]Mansford[/b] CFR, Fr Iain [b]Matthew [/b]OCD, Archbishop Vincent [b]Nichols[/b], Fr Dermot [b]Power[/b], Fr Piotr [b]Prusakiewicz[/b] CSMA, Fr Martin [b]Sabathé[/b] CSJ, Fr Francis [b]Seldon[/b], Fr Alexander [b]Sherbrooke[/b], Fr Bryan [b]Storey[/b], Fr Kevin [b]Taggart [/b]OSB, Fr Stephen [b]Wang[/b], Read more about the priests / add your comments [url=../../discussion/topic.php?id=6490]here[/url] And you can hear the readings too on Xt3's [url=../../library/view.php?id=285]SUNDAYS[/url] podcast.
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Fr Javier talks about receiving Communion: "Communion is Jesus entering into your heart. The heart is the inner part of the person, the heart is your intimacy & Communion is receiving the body & blood of Jesus Christ & letting Him enter into Communion with you, from heart to heart, the union of the heart of Jesus with your heart.....Communion is realising that God loves us so much that His love wants to fill our hearts."
Fr Kevin brings together all of today's readings in the "two strands running through Holy Communion: it is a very personal thing in one respect, a wonderful gift that Jesus gives us of Himself so that we are very closely united with him in Holy Communion; then there's another element where we all share in the one body & we are united as the Body of Christ, the People of God, the Church, through Holy Communion."
"There's no doubt about it - Jesus understood himself to be a shepherd." Fr Dermot goes on to show how the Gospels describe Jesus as shepherd: "To the people of his time, the shepherd meant so much - someone who combined huge courage with huge tenderness...These twin dimensions come together in Jesus...that's why in the psalm we say that in the valley of darkness we fear no evil - because the shepherd is there...Jesus walks with us, waits with us & searches for us - when we discover Him there, our hearts become strong."
"In 1208 Francis of Assisi went to mass & heard St Matthew's version of the Gospel we hear today 'Provide yourselves with no gold or silver…'" Fr Emmanuel, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, reflects on what this Gospel means for us today: "'Take nothing with you for the journey' Jesus says to us today….he knows the human heart & our ever ancient & new temptation is to self-sufficiency, to seek to depend on myself, on my own resources, a spirit contrary to that of the Gospel, of utter dependence on God."
Fr Michael speaks about truth - "Even our weaknesses are providential says Paul in the 2nd reading - they can lead us to the fullness of truth. 'My weaknesses are my special boast so that the power of Christ may stay over me…For it is when I am weak that I am strong.' Strong or weak, Christ is among us in power today, here in this moment of truth, to call our hearts again from exile into the fullness of life & love."
"You can't give what you haven't got' - Bishop Terence Drainey's opening words in this 180 Holy Secs on the faith that has been passed down to us through the generations, starting back with the Apostles Peter & Paul.
"This is the beginning of the Year of the Priesthood, given as a gift by Pope Benedict to the Church. It doesn't just offer us the chance for a renewal of our appreciation of the priesthood but perhaps more importantly it's a year for the renewal of priests, because what we need above all in the Church is holy priests. The priesthood is about life, eternal life; the priests bring into our lives the reality of God's love." Fr Stephen goes on to suggest some things we can do during this Year for Priests.
"Today, above all days in the liturgical year, is the day that we remember the meaning of the covenant. The covenant is the summing up of the intense love that the Father has for the whole of creation, but particularly for every human being...The covenant, the intense love of the Father, is the foundational truth of our being - that we've been created by a God that loved us so much that He brought us into existence." Fr Anthony Doe gives this reflection for the Feast of Corpus Christi.
"Our heart is built according to the Trinity; our love is built according to the trinitarian love; all nature has a trinitarian character." Mgr Leo Maasburg on this wondrous Feast of the Holy Trinity.
On this birthday of the Church, Fr Marcus looks back at the first Pentecost & the place of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church. "It is the Holy Spirit that makes the Church one, unified…it is the Holy Spirit who makes the Church holy... The Church is made up of sinners & yet she brings forth saints. Look at what happened to those weak apostles who had betrayed Christ, they became holy not because of some natural gift but because of the Holy Spirit - it's the same for all of us... The Holy Spirit unites...making us one, holy, catholic and apostolic."
"The Ascension of Jesus is the event which guarantees that we are entirely welcomed. If He fills the universe, the ascended Christ, it's because He is capable of holding the whole universe in Himself; if He makes the Church His body it's because He is capable of holding the Church in Himself. As the Church, we are members of Christ's body....He is that hospitable that He can take us into His body...."
"St John's Gospel today contains one of those teachings that just can't be absorbed in one sitting." Fr Bernard on Jesus' teaching revolving around his request that we love one another.
"It's an extraordinary thing that we can't really love one another at all unless we are in union with God because only God is love. The more we are united with Him, the more we are a loving people that can share with each other... It's not just words and talk but something 'real & active'." Fr Bryan meditates on today's Gospel parable of the vine and branches.
"This Sunday is traditionally observed as Vocation Sunday…. we should all be begging the Holy Spirit to give us light - Lord, help me to see beneath the surface of my own life, help me to see what you are saying in my life, to see what you are calling me to." Fr Keith speaks about how the light & power of the Holy Spirit transforms us & how, through the Holy Spirit, we're capable of giving ourselves 100% in love.
"So you see how it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead and that in His name repentance for the forgiveness of sin would be preached to all the nations." Fr Michael reflects on the sacrament of confession as a personal encounter of each of us with the risen Lord where we can touch and feel for ourselves the healing power of His wounds.
"What is the true image of God?….God is ever all loving & merciful..Mercy is the 2nd name of love, love which gives itself, love in action." Fr Pietr gives a beautiful reflection for Divine Mercy Sunday which, "according to St Faustina, is the day God pulls out whole ocean of graces for those who approach the fount of His mercy."
Fr Martin reflects on the today's Gospel of John - on the risen Christ, on what John saw when he reached the tomb & how he was helped by the Holy Spirit.
Easter Sunday extra - 'Saviour of the World' by Boyce & Stanley
Fr Dermott casts his eye over the events of Holy week starting with Jesus entering through the Golden Gate riding on a donkey - by this Jesus declares himself as the Messiah.
"God includes all of us, there is not 1 of us who is excluded in this desire of God that we know him & love him. We know that God takes us by the hand." Fr David brings together beautifully today's readings & gives us 3 lessons to learn from them.
Fr Stephen reflects on love, light & life in the context of Jesus' Passion. "God loved the world so much that He sent His Son to be with us in this darkness, to carry it for our sake & to show us that even there love is possible, the love of God."
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