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Reflection – November 3rd, 2024 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reflection – November 3rd, 2024 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

The readings today emphasize that LOVE is the greatest law  fulfilling all commandments. We are urged to love God ” with all our heart  soul , mind and strength”. Jesus also teaches that we must love our neighbours as ourselves. We are told to love God and show that love through our actions towards others. Every opportunity to love someone is an opportunity to love God.   

As a former English teacher, I’ve looked at the word “love” – is “love” ...

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Cathy Keirstead

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Reflection – October 28th-29th – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reflection – October 28th-29th – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Love is the Greatest Commandment

¯Love, love, love … all you need is love. ¯

The multitudes of songs and poems which talk about love is endless.  As a reader, I can attest that it is also a common theme in many books, a universal concept, understood and lived out in a variety of ways.  Love really does appear to make the world go round, as someone once said.  We are a society which is consumed by various interpretations of love, the ...

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Ellen Bennett

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Homily – October 28th-29th – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homily – October 28th-29th – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The very first thing I ever remember watching on our black and white television, back in the late 1960s, was fighting in the Middle East. I was shocked at what I was seeing and wondered, as a three or four-year-old, “Why are they fighting and not loving one another? Why doesn’t someone, from the adult world, just step in and stop this?” Of course, I didn’t know anything about the complexities of human behavior; I still don’t know much. I ...

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Fr Phil

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