Love Thy Neighbour
Collaring the cowards
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I have heard some strange suggestions before in relation to what members of the clergy should and shouldn’t do but the latest one by the National Churchwatch in England takes the cake.
The group, who provide personal safety advice, have stated that vicars should not wear dog collars when on duty because they increase the likelihood [...]
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Spread the word around
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
It has been well documented as to the decrease in attendances for mass services in churches across England and Ireland. With that comes the news that some members are looking for ways to adapt modern thinking to old methods.
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Nobody ever said it was simple to be a man. If it were, more guys would try it. – Hugh O’Neill
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Whether we like to admit it or not we are all getting older. It’s one of the things that we do not have control of in our lives, normally you tend to find women are more vain about this change then men.
So it was with great interest to find a survey in Britain that showed [...]
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Responsibility
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Being a teenager in recent times means being in the spotlight as the media seem to have taken it upon themselves to highlight a lack of morals and rule breaking from them.
It is shocking when you consider the acts that have taken place and those that are said to have committed them, but maybe we [...]
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Try (Just a little bit harder)
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Protests seem to be everywhere in the news recently. With the demonstration at Heathrow Airport fresh in our minds, I wonder how we view those that take such a stand against the things they believe are unjust.
Thousands of people set up the ‘Climate Camp’ to protest plans for a third runway. Many of these campaigners [...]
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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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