A Voice from the Isles
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The Cross turns all our expectations on their heads; this is God, who is also fully human, suffering and showing utter love to His creatures.
This is the fulfilment of our divine vocation on earth ... to be the people of the covenant, ever relating to the trustworthy God with loving faith and to all people with that very self-same love with which He both loves us and loves all.
We each would like to be close to Our Lord Jesus Christ, but when we see many others gathered around Him we are not sure how to place ourselves in a situation in which we, just like the sick man, can be close to Jesus Christ.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
The first in a series of Wednesday sermons during Great Lent on the topic of the Beatitudes.
The normal experience of being a Christian is both joy and struggle. There is a deep joy in knowing Christ but also a struggle against demonically inspired forces of violence and rebellion, inside us and outside us.
Man can achieve true delight and true immortality through the grace of God. The reason for our existence is communion with God.
The Fathers of the Church are very clear that it is not God who separates himself from sinners and punishes them but rather sinners themselves who, through their own bad choices, separate themselves from the Lord and experience in that separation the sufferings of hell, darkness and despair.
The guest preacher was Fr. Yves Dubois with a sermon on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.
Fr. Gregory gives a sermon on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee.
A sermon on the Feast of the Entry of Christ into the Temple.
Jesus Christ reaches out to each of us in 2012, just as He did 2,000 years ago. However, he does not always give us immediately what we ask for as soon as we ask for His help in our lives.
Lessons from the story of Zacchaeus.
We have to examine our own lives in relation to the reality that the preaching of Jesus has now begun. We can listen to that preaching of Jesus today in each of our lives.
In the Gospel account, Christ healed the ten lepers by His word, but their healing was conditional upon their obedience. They had to respond for the healing to take effect.