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Fr Joe’s Sunday reflection February 28 – Second Sunday of Lent [C]

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel

Luke 9:28-36

Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up the mountain to pray.
As he prayed, the aspect of his face was changed and his clothing became brilliant as lightning.

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Lenten carbon fast in praise of creation

Leela Ramdeen

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

“The environment is God’s gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations and towards humanity as a whole.” – Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth.

By the time you read this article, His Grace would have formally launched the consultation on the “Draft framework towards an Environmental Policy for the Archdiocese”. On March 14, Catholic News will publish a 4-page pull out of the Draft framework.

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Fr Joe’s Sunday reflection February 21 – First Sunday of Lent (C)

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel

Lk 4:1-13
Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil.

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Indifference can bring death

Leela Ramdeen

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

On February 20 the world marked World Day of Social Justice. In 2009 the 192-member UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to observe this day annually.

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Fr Joe’s Sunday reflection February 14 – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel

Lk 6:17, 20-26
Jesus came down with the twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied.

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