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Fr Joe’s Sunday homily Dec 13 – Third Sunday of Advent (C)

Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp
Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

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Lk 3:10-18

The crowds asked John the Baptist, “What should we do?” He said to them in reply, “Whoever has two cloaks should share with the person who has none. And whoever has food should do likewise.”

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Beware of anti-life strategies for dealing with climate change

Leela Ramdeen
Leela Ramdeen

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair of The Catholic Commission for Social Justice

As we prepare for the coming of the Christ-child, let us act on the advice of Pope Benedict XVI, who said recently:

“Advent, this intense liturgical time… invites us to pause in silence to grasp a presence. It is an invitation to understand that every event of the day is a gesture that God directs to us, sign of the care he has for each one of us. ..Advent invites and stimulates us to contemplate the Lord who is present. Should not the certainty of his presence help us to see the world with different eyes? Should it not help us to see our whole existence as a ‘visit,’ as a way in which he can come to us and be close to us, in each situation?”

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Fr Joe’s Sunday homily Dec 6 – Second Sunday of Advent (C)

Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp
Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Second Sunday of Advent (C)

Gospel

Lk 3:1-6

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert.

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The challenge of Copenhagen

Leela Ramdeen
Leela Ramdeen

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice

The UN Climate Change Conference begins in Copenhagen, Denmark, tomorrow, Monday 7 December, and will run until 18 December.

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After CHOGM, what?

Leela Ramdeen
Leela Ramdeen

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice

The CHOGM website states that “CHOGM is all about bringing people closer together to share ideas and create partnerships to address some of the most critical issues of the 21st Century.”

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