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by Jean Allen Are you ever afraid Jesus will ask you to do something you’re not ready for? The disciples may have been a little dismayed that Jesus was sending them out to cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers and cast out demons. Easy stuff, right? Jesus had anointed them with the…
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by Jean Allen “Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.” (Second reading, 1 Corinthians) Participation in the Body and Blood of Christ was never meant to remain only a ‘me and Jesus’ moment. It beautifully starts out that way as we give…
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by Jean Allen I love the Trinity, which could rightly be called ‘The Forgotten Trinity’ along with the Holy Spirit’s ‘The Forgotten Paraclete’. In spite of the fact that every time we make the sign of the cross we are invoking the Trinity, Trinitarian awareness is generally reserved for Trinity Sunday. The mystery of the…
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by Jean Allen Finally, sisters, fill your minds with everything that is true, noble, good and pure, everything that we love and honor, and everything that can be thought virtuous or worthy of praise…then the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:8)This text is not in the readings for Pentecost but, if one…
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by Jean Allen Before Jesus ascended, what did he tell his disciples to do? He said to make disciples of all nations, baptize them and “teach them to obey everything that I have commanded you.” From the last couple of weeks, we have explored what Jesus commanded them (and us) to do: Serve one another,…
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by Jean Allen “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Last week I wrote of the works Jesus calls us to do: love, acceptance and forgiveness, which, funnily enough, can also be called commandments. But Jesus understood that our hearts are frail, so, he promised his followers to send the Holy Spirit, or…
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by Jean Allen The Gospel this week takes place immediately after the Last Supper. At the end of this text, Jesus says, “Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to…
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I had the pleasure of chatting (via email) with Peggy Chapeskie of Birthright Victoria. I asked her for a little more about the history of the plant sales for Birthright here in Victoria, BC, in anticipation of their upcoming “Garden Babies for Birthright” sales events. Here’s what she sent me. – Katherina Some Plant Sale…
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by Jean Allen I’ve written this before but it bears repeating: in Jesus’s day, each shepherd didn’t have a separate sheepfold for his flock to sleep at night. At the end of a day, several flocks of sheep would be led into one big sheepfold where the sheep mingled and slept all together. In the…
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by Jean Allen I may have been the only person at the Good Friday Liturgy thinking about this week’s gospel about Doubting Thomas. But in my defense, the reason I was thinking about that text was because of the Good Friday Gospel reading where Jesus was given sour wine and after he received the wine,…
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