God-seed of God the Sower

Vineyard and Church

Today is the feast of Christ the King.  It is a relatively new day on our calendar, first instituted by Pius XI in 1925 as something of a protest against…

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Tipping of the Scales

Solzhenytzen Martyrona's House

Today we have heard the story of the poor woman, the widow who puts two copper coins into the treasury of the Temple.  Those two coins were more than all…

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All Saints

Icon of the Day of Pentecost

Today we mark All Saints’ Day, as a feast moved from the 1st of November. If we had kept this feast on that day, we would have been in the…

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The Son of Timaeus

Sun against the blue sky

Mark 10:46-52 Mark 8:22-26   We hear again the story of the blind man, Bartimaeus.  It is the second healing of a blind man in Mark’s gospel. The first was…

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