Commentary on the 24th Sunday of the year (B) 13th September 2015

PETER’S CONFESSION OF FAITH. PREDICTION OF PASSION A         TEXT (MARK 8: 27–35) Who Do Men Say I Am? 27 And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesare’a Philip’pi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist;
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Commentary on the 23rd Sunday of the year (B) 6th September 2015

  TEXT — Mark 7: 31-37 — Cure of a Deaf Mute   Setting: Outside Judeae 31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decap’olis. Deaf Man with Speech Impediment 32 And they brought to him a man who was
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2. Synod on the family. Challenges facing families Today (2)

CHALLENGES FACING FAMILIES TODAY Article 2 of 2   Study Document Authors The people who were responsible for the Study Document or Instrumentum Laboris for the XIV Ordinary Assembly for the Synod of Bishops, taking place in October 2015, were the participants at the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the previous Synod in 2014.
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Commentary on the 22nd Sunday of the year (B) 30th August 2015

TEXT — Mark 7: 1–8, 14–15, 21–23 — Laws Human and Divine Disciples with Unwashed Hands 1 Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees, and
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1. Synod on the family. Challenges facing families Today (1)

CHALLENGES FACING FAMLIES TODAY Article 1 of 2 There are many challenges facing families in our world today and these will be the basic considerations addressed by the Synod of Bishops when it meets in Rome for three weeks in October (4th to 25th) under the presidency of Pope Francis. The study document of the
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Synod on the family – introduction

HELP OUR FAMILIES Pope Francis became pope in March 2013. He has inaugurated quite a few new plans with many developing well. Among these are to be the fruits of his planning for the family, obviously one of his very top priorities. He initiated a Synod of Bishops to study the family and bring about
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Commentary on the 21st Sunday of the year (B) 23th August 2015

TEXT: – John 06: 60–71        Reactions to the Bread of Life Discourse A Hard Saying 60 Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” Jesus’ Response 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, “Do you take
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Commentary on the 19th Sunday of the year (B) 9th August 2015

JOHN 6: 41–51   BREAD OF LIFE, Part II Ordinary Time, Sunday 19B A         TEXT Jews’ Objection 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, “I AM the bread which came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he
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Commentary on the 20th Sunday of the year (B) 16th August 2015

TEXT: John 6: 51–59 — Bread of Life, Part III   Living Bread from Heaven 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” Dispute
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Commentary on the 18th Sunday of the year (B) 2nd August 2015

JOHN 6: 22–40         BREAD OF LIFE, Part I Ordinary Time, Sunday 18B (John 6: 24–35)   A         TEXT New Setting 22 On the next day the people who remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his
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