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Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel is an account of the temptation of Jesus. He is offered power and success but on the devil’s terms. We have a chance to begin Lent reflecting on sin and temptation, seeing Lent as a desert time when we deal with them in our personal lives. More copies of our Lent book ‘The Shattering of Loneliness’ will be available costing a modest … [Read more...] about Newsletter 10.03.19.

  Dear Friends, Jesus has left us a life to be imitated much more that doctrines to be known. Better still, he has left us a word to live in our hearts, in our deepest being, where he himself lives through faith, where our love and freedom give themselves to him. A life without words is better than words without life. On Wednesday we begin the season of Lent with Mass … [Read more...] about Newsletter 03.03.19.

  Dear Friends, The love that Jesus presents in today’s Gospel is far from easy! Are we capable of answering hatred with goodness, curses with blessings, ill-treatment with prayer? Lent is fast approaching. This year I am recommending as a Lent book ‘The Shattering of Loneliness’ It is written by Fr Eric Varden, the abbot of Mount St Bernard, a Cistercian Abbey near … [Read more...] about Newsletter 24.02.19.

Dear Friends, Happiness is what everyone seeks. But people have different ideas of what happiness is. For the Jews material well-being was considered a sign of God’s blessing: happiness consisted in a long life and abundant possessions. The teaching of Jesus was different because it spoke of a deeper kind of happiness that transcended material wealth. It said that the poor … [Read more...] about Newsletter 17.02.19.

Dear Friends,   Happiness is what everyone seeks. But people have different ideas of what happiness is. For the Jews material well-being was considered a sign of God’s blessing: happiness consisted in a long life and abundant possessions. The teaching of Jesus was different because it spoke of a deeper kind of happiness that transcended material wealth. It said that the … [Read more...] about Newsletter 17.02.19.