Love Thy Neighbour
To celebrate or to mourn?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
I had to go to a funeral service today and as I watched the mourning friends and family in the church; subsequently in the graveyard and the reception, a thought struck me. How are we actually meant to act, apart from respectful, during a funeral?
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Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. ~Bob Phillips
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Society is constantly changing but it amazes me that the levels of gang attacks, mostly teenagers, appear to have risen to a state of chaos.
The recent in Warrington on a 47 year old father of three is the tip of the iceberg and should not be taken lightly. Gary Newlove confronted a group of youths who [...]
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Whose belief is it anyway?
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
I’ve often wondered should we criticise people who do not follow the same religion as we do? Whether you’re Catholic, Protestant, Jewish etc does it really matter and do we not all pray to the same God anyway?
It is often said the Lord works in mysterious ways and also that we are to ‘love one [...]
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Welcoming the stranger
Friday, August 10th, 2007
I’m just back from holidays in the US. Through the internet we arranged to swap houses with a family in the wilds of Ohio. When my husband and I wandered into the local Catholic church to enquire about Mass times, we were given a royal welcome. The parish embraced us!
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Waste Not Want Not
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
There has always been a line between those that have and those that have not. Modern society look at countries where poverty is at its worst and feel that we can ease the burden, ours and theirs, by donating to a telethon or charity and that will be enough until next year.
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I once was blind but now can see
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
If I were to strike up a debate on human trafficking we could only come to one conclusion (I hope!). That it is wrong and that anyone involved has lost any sense of humanity. We would be very quick to condemn these people but do any of us have the right to?
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Good and bad deeds
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
A good deed will always be welcome and especially by the church. However behind every good deed is someone with bad intentions.
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Stealing from Churches
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
No matter how much we try to prevent it, crime will always exist. Yes it’s a sin and one hopes that those who commit the criminal acts are caught but, for the life of me, I can not understand the recent spate of crimes that have been committed on church property.
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God loves…shouldn’t we??
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again ‘a point central to our faith is that God is ‘Love’, but this leads to a big problem in the way our Church works today. Where love is God is. This view strengthens our view of marriage as a sacred union where God is the love [...]
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“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
This little girl is an abandoned orphan
in the Southern African nation of Lesotho.
So many children are abandoned in Lesotho each year as the parents see no hope for their children amongst the current socio-economic situation in the country. This leads me to question: ‘How can we as a people allow this to happen. I was [...]
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