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• 10 Nov, 2018
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• Fr. John Paddock

Cinderella in the Bible Esther and Ruth are the Bible’s only books dedicated to the stories of women and named after them. Coming out of a heavily patriarchal, male-dominated world, the surprise is that women got any books at all. To my mind, Ruth is th

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• 04 Nov, 2018
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• Fr. John Paddock

The Beatitudes. They form such a poetic and wonderful introduction to Jesus Sermon on the Mount. Beatitude means blessing. These blessings form a list of qualities, virtues, and actions that frame a Christian life – and we’re encouraged to adopt them

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• 27 Oct, 2018
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• Fr. John Paddock

In the wider Protestant tradition this last Sunday of October is observed as Reformation Sunday. It commemorates the day—the 31stof October, 1517—when Martin Luther affixed his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral.  There were many f

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• 26 Oct, 2018
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• Fr. John Paddock

In today’s Gospel we hear two of the disciples, brothers James and John, sons of Zebedee the fisherman, make a specific request of Jesus. They had dreamed, as most of the Hebrews dreamed, of a coming king of Israel who would set Jerusalem free of Roman

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• 17 Oct, 2018
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• Fr. John Paddock

“Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” asked the man who ran up to Jesus. And Jesus responded with some of the Commandments: “You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness

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