Holy Week Reflections
Holy Week – Day 8: Easter Sunday
“HE IS RISEN”
These are the words that would have resonated among His Apostles and close followers on that first Resurrection day.
He has done the impossible. Nothing can hold Him down. Nothing can defeat Him.
Through Baptism we are
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Lent finishes tonight. When we wake tomorrow the celebration of the risen Jesus will permeate our lives for weeks to come.
Over these past 46 days since the first day of Lent on Ash Wednesday or just through this last
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After Jesus had been condemned to death there came a point where He had to pick up His cross and carry it all the way to Calvary.
He did not deserve it but He was willing to carry it because
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After Jesus had finished the Last Supper it was time.
He left and went to the Mount of Olives where He would be tempted to walk away from what was to come. He overcame this temptation but He was obviously
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Last week my mother who is 87 years old, fell over in her room and broke her shoulder and her hip. This resulted in a hip replacement operation and the necessary medical treatment of her shoulder.
Mum lives about 2000
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I spend an enormous amount of time on my feet and consequently my left foot is quite swollen and very painful to stand on at times. Often when I am giving a talk lately the pain has been considerable and
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For the past five weeks I have been very busy. I spent a couple of weeks in the USA and I will be returning there again soon. Then our team presented three different Parish Mission/Events each consisting of 90 minute
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Palm Sunday is the beginning of Holy Week.
If I was honest it was about this time during Lent when I was younger that I started to get excited that it was coming to an end and I could go
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