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Quote of the Day – 26 April

“Enter into the Church and wash away your sins, For there is a hospital for sinners and not a court of law.”

St John Chrysostom (347-407) Father and Doctor of the Church

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Quote of the Day – 17 April Easter Monday – 2nd Day of the Easter Octave

“There flowed from His side water and blood.   Beloved, do not pass over this mystery without thought;  it has yet another hidden meaning, which I will explain to you. I said that water and blood symbolised baptism and the holy Eucharist.   From these two sacraments the Church is born:-  from baptism, the cleansing water that gives rebirth and renewal through the Holy Spirit and from the holy Eucharist.    Since the symbols of baptism and the Eucharist flowed from His side, it was from His side that Christ fashioned the Church, as He had fashioned Eve from the side of Adam. Moses gives a hint of this when he tells the story of the first man and makes him exclaim:- Bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh!   As God then took a rib from Adam’s side to fashion a woman, so Christ has given us blood and water from His side to fashion the Church.   God took the rib when Adam was in a deep sleep and in the same way Christ gave us the blood and the water after His own death.

Do you understand, then, how Christ has united His bride to Himself and what food He gives us all to eat?   By one and the same food we are both brought into being and nourished.    As a woman nourishes her child with her own blood and milk, so does Christ unceasingly nourish with His own blood those to whom He himself has given life.’

St John Chrysostum (347-407) – Father & Doctor

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Our Morning Offering – 23 January

Twenty-four Hour Prayer of St John Chrysostum

[1]    O Lord, deprive me not of Your heavenly blessings. [2]    O Lord, deliver me from eternal torment. [3]    O Lord, if I have sinned in my mind or thought, in word or deed, forgive me. [4]    O Lord, deliver me from every ignorance and heedlessness, from pettiness of the soul and stony hardness of heart. [5]    O Lord, deliver me from every temptation. [6]    O Lord, enlighten my heart darkened by evil desires. [7]    O Lord, I, being a human being, have sinned; You, being God, forgive me in Your loving kindness, for You know the weakness of my soul, [8]    O Lord, send down Your grace to help me, that I may glorify Your holy Name. [9]    O Lord Jesus Christ, inscribe me, Your servant, in the Book of Life and grant me a blessed end. [10]   O Lord my God, even if I have done nothing good in Your sight, yet grant me, according to Your grace, that I may make a start in doing good. [11]   O Lord, sprinkle on my heart the dew of Your grace. [12]   O Lord of heaven and earth remember me, Your sinful servant, cold of heart and impure, in Your kingdom. [13]   O Lord, receive me in repentance. [14]   O Lord, leave me not. [15]   O Lord, save me from temptation. [16]   O Lord, grant me pure thoughts. [17]   O Lord, grant me tears of repentance, remembrance of death and the sense of peace. [18]   O Lord, grant me mindfulness to confess my sins. [19]   O Lord, grant me humility, charity and obedience. [20]   O Lord, grant me magnanimity and gentleness. [21]   O Lord, implant in me the root of all blessings, the fear of You in my heart. [22]   O Lord, vouchsafe that I may love You with all my heart and soul and that I may obey in all things Your will. [23]   O Lord, shield me form evil persons and devils and passions and all other lawless matters. [24]   O Lord, who knows Your creation and that which You have willed for it, may Your will also be fulfilled in me, a sinner, for You are blessed forevermore. Amen.

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One Minute Reflection – 25 January

Yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me………..Galatians 2:20

REFLECTION – “Paul, more than anyone else, has shown us what man really is and in what our nobility consists and of what virtue this particular animal is capable. Each day he aimed ever higher; each day he rose up with greater ardour and faced with new eagerness the dangers that threatened him. He summed up his attitude in the words: “I forget what is behind me and push on to what lies ahead……………The most important thing of all to him, however, was that he knew himself to be loved by Christ. Enjoying this love, he considered himself happier than anyone else”…….St John Chrysostum

PRAYER – O God, who instructed the whole world through the preaching of the Apostle St. Paul, grant that we who celebrate the Feast of his conversion today, may through his patronage and prayers, begin too to understand our greatest gift, that we are LOVED by You! This we ask of You through Christ our Lord. St Paul Pray for Us! Amen.

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Saint of the Day - September 13

Saint of the Day – September 13

Saint John Chrysostom’s Story

The ambiguity and intrigue surrounding John, the great preacher (his name means “golden-mouthed”) from Antioch, are characteristic of the life of any great man in a capital city. Brought to Constantinople after a dozen years of priestly service in Syria, John found himself the reluctant victim of an imperial ruse to make him bishop in the greatest city of the…

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