32nd Sunday Reflection
This is a parable of a wedding banquet, virgin bridesmaids, a bridegroom who is delayed, and a shortage of oil for the lamps at midnight. A story...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published November 6, 2020 · Last modified November 5, 2020
This is a parable of a wedding banquet, virgin bridesmaids, a bridegroom who is delayed, and a shortage of oil for the lamps at midnight. A story...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published October 30, 2020 · Last modified October 29, 2020
Since the second century Apostles’ Creed, the Church affirms, “I believe in the Communion of the Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published October 23, 2020 · Last modified October 22, 2020
Love is the answer, love is always the answer. Do we find community, communion, and compassion, God’s love is present! Do we find relationships that are bereft...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published October 16, 2020 · Last modified October 15, 2020
“Whose image do you see?” asks Jesus. “What is this image called, how is it known?” The year 3099; on our way and quickly becoming; what...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published October 9, 2020 · Last modified October 6, 2020
The saga of Genesis relates the journey of our ancestors into moral awareness and embarrassment at their nakedness. Their endeavours to clothe themselves with leaves does...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published October 2, 2020 · Last modified September 30, 2020
On this feast day of our seraphic father St Francis, we reflect on his words contained in the Canticle of creation: Be praised, my Lord, for Sister Earth,...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 25, 2020 · Last modified September 23, 2020
Tax collectors and prostitutes; traitors and whores; Jesus often uses these people as examples against the purported righteousness, orthodoxy, and purity of the Pharisees. What is it...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 18, 2020 · Last modified September 16, 2020
Jesus was a tradesman, by tradition a carpenter or a stonemason. Jesus would have known what it meant to stand with other tradesmen and labourers at the...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 11, 2020 · Last modified September 10, 2020
“The gospel is profoundly scandalous, and until we hear at least a whisper of its scandal, we risk not hearing any part of it (Griffith, 1993, p....
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 4, 2020 · Last modified September 3, 2020
We look upon an ancient culture and religion with intricate laws and traditions. This is a society of child brides and slavery, a society in which women...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published August 28, 2020 · Last modified August 26, 2020
An awakening reflection: The building rose into the heights, a veritable tower of Babel reaching to the heavens and beautiful to behold; shimmering white marble, a Taj...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published August 21, 2020 · Last modified August 18, 2020
The Assembly Of The Beloved Community And Jesus, coming into the regions of Caesarea Philippi, questioned his disciples, saying, “Who do men say the Son of Man...
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