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Cemetery Sunday in Esker, September 9th, 2012, 3pm.
The Annual Cemetery Sunday Mass for Redemptorists who are buried here in Esker, will be held on Sunday September 9th, at 3pm. Everyone is welcome! 
Refreshments to follow….
Reflection: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B: Sept. 2,2012.
Reflection: Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B: Sept. 2,2012.
Gospel: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23.
‘This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.’
I love liquorice all-sorts! I love to peek into the bag, and pick this one or that one. They mightn’t be good…
Reflection 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 26th 2012.
Reflection 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 26th, 2012. Gospel Reading (in Year B) is from St. John, Chapter 6, verses 60 to 69.
It’s crunch time: ‘What about you, will you also go away?’ A hard saying, because a profound truth was being presented, and ‘many of his…
Reflection: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, – August 19, 2012.
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 19, 2012. Readings are from Year B.
Recently, a five year-old granddaughter said to her Grannie, during Holy Communion time at Mass: ‘Jesus is up there in the bread!- But, he’s not stuck in it!’ (Her older brother had made his First…
August 17th, 2012,- New Irish/Brazilian Redemptorist Mission to Africa.
AUGUST 17TH, 2012 will be remembered for the Formal Opening of the New Irish/Brazilian Redemptorist Mission in Mozambique and Malawi:
‘Plant an acorn, wait for an oak.’
Ever heard of ‘Chechewa’ ? Across Mozambique and neighbouring Malawi, it is the native language of 15 million people! And two…
Reflection, 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, August 12, 2012.
Reflection for 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Readings Year B, August 12, 2012.
Gospel: St. John’s Gospel, Chapter 6, verses 41-51.
‘Get up and eat or the journey will be too long for you!’ (from first reading). And we’re talking about us getting up and eating, -taking Jesus into our…
Reflection for 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B,- August 5, 2012.
Gospel: St. John, Chapter 6, verse 24-36.
Today we meet another ‘I AM’ moment,- ‘I AM the Bread of Life’.
Two things help us to read and understand St. John’s Gospel, in any of its words.
First, the frequent I AM moments, all through the Gospel. For the…
Alphonsus, A Man on Fire
Alphonsus, A Man on Fire
“Return Love for Love”
is what he said to do.
When all was said and done, this was his heart’s deep cry,-
‘return love, for love’.
Live in the Birth of Bethlehem,
walk in its stables,
smell its smells,
and then
be filled with speechless wonder
at the One Who Is,
and who is lying…
August 1st,- Feast of St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Founder of the Redemptorists.
The first day of August is dear to Redemptorists throughout the world. It is the Feast day of their Founder, St. Alphonsus de Liguori. Born in Naples in 1696, he died at Pagani in 1787, in his 91st year. At the age of 36, he founded a…
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