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Readings for the Weekend
Isaiah 44:6-8
God challenges any other pretenders to divinity to match what he has
done for is people and, even more difficult, foretell what he is
going to do for them in the future. He is going to continue being
their defender.
Romans 8:12-25
The Spirit of God teaches us to call God our Father, as we are
adopted to be Christ’s brothers and sisters. We, and all of
creation, wait in longing for all God’s children to accept their
adoption.
Matthew 13:24-30,
36-43
The farmer tells his workers to let the weeds and wheat grow
together until the harvest because there is a risk of uprooting
wheat while pulling up weeds. Harvest will be the time to separate
them.
Reflection
Reflecting on the years he spent in labour camps, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn has this to say:
I learnt one great lesson from my years in prison camps
I learnt how a person becomes evil and how he becomes good.
Gradually I came to realize
that the line which separates good from evil
passes not between states,
or between classes, or between political parties,
but right through every human heart.
Even in hearts that are overwhelmed by evil,
One small bridgehead of good is retained.
And in the best of hearts,
there remains an unuprooted small corner of evil
(Gulag Archipelago, volume 2)
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Thanksgiving
We
give thanks for the life of Mary Magdalene who we
commemorate on Tuesday 22nd July.
This week we pray for:
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