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Category: <span>Feast of the Lord</span>

Category: Feast of the Lord

Home Homily Archive for category "Feast of the Lord"

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple

Brother John Feast / Feast of the Lord / Homily 02/02/2022 03/02/2022

Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, 2nd February 2022 What is so striking in today’s gospel passage is the readiness of both Simeon and Anna to receive; a readiness brought about by long years of waiting on the Lord, of making themselves present to this possibility; that is, of …

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The Baptism of the Lord

Brother John Christmas / Feast / Feast of the Lord / Homily / Sunday 09/01/2022 14/01/2022

The Baptism of the Lord, 9th January 2022 Nothing is as it seems, or so it seems. In Luke’s account of Jesus’ baptism there is no dialogue between Jesus and John and the revelation of who he is seems a very private matter for Jesus alone for later John sends …

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Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

Brother John Feast / Feast of the Lord / Homily 09/11/2021 10/11/2021

Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, 9th November 2021Patronal feast of the Monastery of Christ Our Saviour Before it was ever known as Turvey Abbey in the eighteenth century, this site was known simply as Turvey Farm or Farmhouse and, until the mid-twentieth century, was indeed, a working farm, almost, that …

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The triumph of the Holy Cross

Brother John Feast / Feast of the Lord / Homily 14/09/2021 22/09/2021

The triumph of the Holy Cross, 14th September, 2021 The fire alarms have just gone off, again. It’s 5.30am so this time it serves as an appropriate signal to get out of bed and compile this brief homily. – but this is the third time in so many weeks, and …

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The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

admin Feast / Feast of the Lord / Homily 06/08/2021 07/08/2021

The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord In Michael Buckley’s gloss on this scene of the Transfiguration he suggests that ‘God reveals Christ to us too’ and I thought, ‘But isn’t this rather about Christ revealing God to us?’ and then I wondered at the truth of both statements: …

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The Presentation of the Lord in the Temple

Brother John Feast / Feast of the Lord / Homily 02/02/2021 08/02/2021

The feast of Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, Candlemas day The Law is mentioned five times in this passage describing the presentation of Jesus in the Temple: firstly, for the parents,To be justified as laid down by the Law of Moses and thenobserving what stands written in the …

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The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

Brother John Christmas / Feast / Feast of the Lord / Homily 10/01/2021 12/01/2021

The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, 10th January 2021 There is a tide in the affairs of men,which taken at the flood leads on to fortune;Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeis bound in shallows and in miseries. Some very well known words from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, here …

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Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, Feast of the Lord

Brother John Feast of the Lord / Homily 09/11/2020 10/11/2020

Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, 9th November 2020 Today, we celebrate forty years since the first Mass here at the Monastery of Christ Our Saviour and a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then, both in and from the monastery itself, and in the world outside. It …

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The Transfiguration of the Lord

Brother John Feast of the Lord / Homily 06/08/2020 10/10/2020

Feast of the Transfiguration, 6th August 2020 Visions and dreams have been with us always, but that doesn’t lessen the importance of trying to understand them, both universally and in each of our own particular circumstances. The ‘Son of Man’ phrase, which links the passage from David with the Transfiguration …

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The See of Saint Peter the Apostle

Brother John Feast of the Lord / Homily 22/02/2020 10/10/2020

The See of Saint Peter, 22nd February 2020 When a rock has been exposed to the elements for a couple of thousand years it tends to show a bit of wear and tear – indeed, to the point of being unrecognisable in some respects to its original onlookers – but …

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