Lent
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Palm Sunday Encourages Humble Leaders
By Fr Dexter Brereton, CSSp ThM STL Passion or Palm Sunday presents us with the account of the suffering…
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The Transfiguration Teaches Us No Crown Without A Cross
By Fr Dexter Brereton, CSSp Luke 9: 28-36 The Gospel reading this weekend reminds us that the heavenly Christ is…
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On Confession – Why Do I Have To Confess My Sins To A Priest?
People often ask, ‘why should I go to a priest for confession?’ ‘Why couldn’t I just confess directly to God?…
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Jesus Teaches Us To Rise Above Our Temptations In The Wilderness Of Our Lives
The liturgical readings for Lent always begin with the story of a temptation. So Jesus goes into the desert, there…
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From Carnival To Ash Wednesday Explained
By Fr Dexter Brereton, CSSp Beloved in the Lord, Yesterday, Carnival 2019 came to a wonderful climax in two days…
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Ash Wednesday And Lent – Why Are They Important?
Tomorrow the Catholic Church celebrates Ash Wednesday. This means your Catholic friends will have their foreheads bearing black marks that…
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Judas Iscariot Betrayed Jesus – Why?
One of the aspects of the Passion Of Christ that I’ve wondered about ever since I was much younger, dealt…
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The Alabaster Jar – The Passion of Christ – Palm Sunday
This year, The Passion of Christ is being read from Mark’s account of the Gospel. There is a tremendous amount…
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Dying To Self – The True Mark Of A Christian
Jesus led by example by becoming the grain of wheat that fell onto the ground and died . . .…
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Deacon Dressed Like A Vagrant Addresses Pan Yard Lenten Retreat
At our first pan yard retreat for 2018, this vagrant walked in, drunk like a fish, asking to see the…
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