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Lenten Reflection - 24 March - By your blood, forgive my sins.

Lenten Reflection – 24 March – By your blood, forgive my sins.

Lenten Reflection – 24 March – Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Readings: Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12, Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9, John 5:1-16 and the Memorial of Blessed Didacus Joseph of Cadiz OFM Cap (1743–1801)

“Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise.”

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethzatha, which has five porticoes.   In these lay a multitude…

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One Minute Reflection - 24 March - 'Christian hypocrites, like these ....'

One Minute Reflection – 24 March – ‘Christian hypocrites, like these ….’

One Minute Reflection – 24 March – Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Readings: Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12, Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9, John 5:1-16 and the Memorial of Blessed Didacus Joseph of Cadiz OFM Cap (1743–1801)

So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet.”   But he answered them, “The man who healed me said to me, ‘Take up your…

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Day Twenty-eight of our Lenten Journey - '... Despise the world and seek to live for God... '

Day Twenty-eight of our Lenten Journey – ‘… Despise the world and seek to live for God… ‘

Day Twenty-eight of our Lenten Journey – Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Readings: Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12, Psalms 46:2-3, 5-6,8-9, John 5:1-16 Imitating Christ with Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471) In You is the source of lifeand in Your Light Lord, we see lightPsalm 35(36) “Do you wish to be healed?” – John 5:6 I WILL bring witness against myself to my injustice and to You, O Lord, I will confess…

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One Minute Reflection - 16 March - “Do you want to be healed?” John 5:1-16

One Minute Reflection – 16 March – “Do you want to be healed?” John 5:1-16

One Minute Reflection – 16 March – Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Readings: Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12, Psalms 46:2-3, 5-6,8-9, John 5:1-16 “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool….” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” John 5:6-8 REFLECTION – “We read in the Old Testament that in the times of Noah, since all humankind…

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