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  Dear Friends Today’s Gospel reading continues from last Sunday. The people seek out Jesus because they want more ‘signs’ as well as free food! Jesus speaks to them of food that lasts forever. They ask what they must do to have this food. Jesus tells them that it is not good works that count but faith. ‘This is working for God, you must believe in the one he has sent’. … [Read more...] about Newsletter 05.08.18.

  Dear Friends For the next five Sundays we turn from St Mark’s Gospel to that of St John. The overall theme is Jesus the Bread of Life. The multiplication of the food offered by the small boy is in itself inadequate for feeding the vast crowd. But in the hands of Jesus it becomes more than enough—with some left over! St John clearly sees this event as a fore-taste of the … [Read more...] about Newsletter 29.07.18.

  Dear Friends In today’s first reading Jeremiah tells his hearers that the Lord himself will be their shepherd. This is the background to the Gospel reading when Jesus took pity on the people ‘because they were like sheep without a shepherd’. Sheep are incapable of looking after themselves - they need to be led to green pastures and guided along the right path as the … [Read more...] about Newsletter 22.07.18.

  Dear Friends We all like to see results. But it doesn’t always happen. It didn’t happen to Ezekiel who was not able to persuade Israel to turn back to the Lord. Paul had to contend with insults and hardships as well as a personal ‘thorn in the flesh’. Even Jesus doesn’t get a hearing from his own people. For God fidelity to his call is more important than successful … [Read more...] about Newsletter 08.07.18.

      Dear Friends One of the greatest challenges to Christians is reconciling our faith in a good God with the reality of evil and suffering. Our faith does not offer a neat philosophical answer to suffering and evil. Instead it insists that the final word is always God’s word of life and fulfilment. Paul speaks of Jesus ‘making himself ‘poor for your sake’. He is … [Read more...] about Newsletter 01.07.18.