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How to count your blessings
This is one of the nicest e-mails of its kind I have ever received. It starts off with the introduction: “I dreamt that I went to heaven and an angel was showing me around.” From there, the narrator continues:
Our faith, stripped bare
I often feel frustrated by the lack of silence in my life because I delude myself into believing that if I had more silence, I would be more contemplative and open to divine inspiration. Most of the time prayer is a dry spell of presenting myself before God and waiting to hear.
Parable of the sower’s relevance
From Anthony J Sturges, Johannesburg
I was amazed at the relevance of the parable of the sower, which we read recently at Sunday Mass, to contemporary Catholic society. It speaks of our receptivity to the wisdom and truths of God.
27 July – 2 August, 2011
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This Week’s Editorial
Prisions: Don’t shut the doors
Don’t shut the doors
Some years ago The Southern Cross learned of an inmate in a South African prison who decided to convert to Catholicism on account of the newspaper.
Why pre-marital sex is wrong
Young Catholics have little problem accepting that extra-marital sex is wrong because it is a violation of the permanent covenant made between husband, wife and God. But influenced by their peers, they are finding it hard to understand why pre-marital sex is condemned by the Church as immoral. Your comments?
A tale of two people
I have two stories to tell you today. They come from a Southern Cross reader who is as good at lifting things off the Internet as I am.
St Peter would weep at Church today
There is a lovely story in a devotional booklet called Our Daily Bread about a convert to Christianity who was so perplexed by what she saw in Christians that she told a friend she wanted to read a book on Church history.
Changing sex in the Bible
UNPROTECTED TEXTS: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire, by Jennifer Wright Knust. HarperOne, San Francisco. 2011. 343 pp.
Reviewed by Eugene J Fisher
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Sex marketing?
From Annabel Horn, Cape Town
While praying outside a place of abortion recently, I talked to employees of the clinic who had just given a talk to one of the prestigious schools in the southern suburbs of Cape Town.
