Through the four original experiences (including Original Sin) we learn something important about our bodies: Original solitude tells us that our bodies are symbolic; we have a body, like the animals, but are relational like God. The visible and invisible are united in us. Our bodies symbolise something beyond us; they point to God. […]
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Marriage as a lifelong covenant – Fr Tony Percy explains covenants as ‘an agreement or bond that is freely established between two parties’. When man and woman come together in the Sacrament of Marriage and consummate their bond sexually, they are entering into a covenant. They accept each other as well as freely giving
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The word Mass is from the Latin word Missa, meaning “sending forth”. And if we consider Mass in these terms it takes on a dimension that so many of us are perhaps ignorant of, or like to forget sometimes. Mass is all about communion. We are a communion of persons who unite their prayers
One of the most tiring gags of the secular world is the use of the term ‘Immaculate Conception’ to explain an unexpected pregnancy. Even within the Catholic laity there is a general misconception about this term and what it means. Those who do not understand its meaning attribute the term to the conception of
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It’s Sunday morning and you’re on your way to Mass. You go about your usual morning ritual and arrive at the Church a few seconds before the opening hymn begins and taking your place you fulfil your weekly obligation, watching the clock until this chore is complete. Does this sound like you? Sadly, we’ve
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‘And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns
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‘We must therefore consider the Eucharist as: — thanksgiving and praise to the Father ; — the sacrificial memorial of Christ and his Body; — the presence of Christ by the power of his word and of his Spirit .’ (CCC 1358) The above quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church lists the
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‘On the day we call the day of the sun, all who dwell in the city or country gather in the same place. ‘The memoirs of the apostles and the writings of the prophets are read, as much as time permits. ‘When the reader has finished, he who presides over those gathered admonishes and
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‘When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.’ (John 19:26-7) These two verses in St John’s
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‘The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will
