Special Season
What Makes a Happy New Year?
At the beginning of this new year, the greeting ‘Happy New Year’ is on everyone’s lips. Yet do we really know what brings us real happiness, what we really mean when we wish happiness to others? God is happiness, He is the happiest Being. Those …
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The Dinosaur in the Crib
Our picture of a good crib is certainly one where Our Lady, St Joseph, baby Jesus and the animals are all present. However, it is not unknown for little children to insert other suspicious looking animals and toys into the crib. A dinosaur in the …
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Preparing for the Second Christmas
Preparing for Christmas involves many things decorations, cribs, trees, buying presents, cards and parties. However, the Gospel tells us how to prepare for the second and definitive Christmas, the return of the Lord. For most this will probably be on their departure from this world, …
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Four Things Meant for Lent … but Not Only?
What can you do for Lent and why do it anyway? Here are four things ‘meant for Lent ‘…but not only! We give them more importance in Lent so that they would become integrated into our lifestyle. The aim is to live in close friendship …
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How to Live Advent
If something does not make much of a difference to us it is a waste of time to stop and ponder it. At the beginning of Advent the liturgy does not take us back to the events before the birth of Jesus but rather to …
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The Upside Down Kingdom
Lent is not, as some may think, depriving ourselves of good things just for the sake of it. If indeed we are to fast and pray more, it is for us to have more of the best thing or as the Psalmist says, so we …
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If You Seek Him You Will Find Him
The resurrection of Jesus is not just a happy ending to the sad story of the Passion. In fact it is an incredibly new beginning with enormous implications for all of us, a new ‘let there be light’. So important is the Easter season that …
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Christmas in Our Winter
The Everlasting Winter without Christmas “The White Witch? Who is she?” Asks Lucy. “Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It’s she that makes it always winter. Always winter and never Christmas; think of that!” (from the book – The …
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Jesus Christ is Risen
Look at every religious leader of history – Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed – they are all in the grave. But Jesus Christ isn’t. Jesus is Risen from the dead and He is with us always. Hundreds of people saw Him immediately after His resurrection. This is …
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Cancelled Funeral
Surely you’ve heard of a cancelled engagement party, a wedding that has been called off and sadly even a baptism party that never was. But have you ever heard of a cancelled funeral? Well this is what happens to our friend Lazarus. Even though he …
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