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Wednesday, 22 December 2021

A Late Advent Poem of St. John of the Cross

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If You Want If you want the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy, and say, “I need shelter for the night, please ta...
Tuesday, 21 December 2021

A pilgrim's reflection: the Lord's promises

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    "Blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled"  (Lk 1: 45) Today's gospel is the s...
Sunday, 19 December 2021

A pilgrim's reflection: faith

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  "Blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled"  (Lk 1: 45) Today's gospel is that te...
Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Practicing Mary's Openness on Her Feast

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For the feast of the Immaculate Conception today we have the Gospel telling of the Annunciation.  We have been pondering this particular mys...
Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Advent opportunity to linger a little longer in thanksgiving after Holy Communion - the COLW prayer

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Advent is an oppportunity to refocus our prayers and to ask Our Lady to show us the way to Jesus as we await His birth with her.  One way to...
Sunday, 28 November 2021

A pilgrim's reflection: from cares to caresses

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 " Watch yourselves, or your hearts will be coarsened with [...] the cares of life." (Luke 21: 32) So many gospel readings in the ...
Wednesday, 24 November 2021

... a pilgrim's prayer journal...

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  "...you are not to prepare your defence, because I myself shall give you an elloquence and a wisdom that none of your opponents will ...
Sunday, 21 November 2021

A pilgrim's reflection: what are we doing here anyway?

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  " For this was I born, and for this came I into the world."  John 18: 37. We read in today's gospel the tense conversation b...
Saturday, 20 November 2021

A pilgrim's afterthought

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Yesterday's gospel saw Jesus thundering against the traders in the temple and hurling at them this accusation, "My Father's hou...
Wednesday, 17 November 2021

"Walsingham exists because of Mary" (pg. 16)

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In Catechism lessons all over the world, children often ask, 'Would God have sent Jesus if Adam and Eve hadn't sinned?', would G...