Fr Kevin O'SheaHow much can you trust the church and the things it does? How much can you trust anyone, trust them to be around when you need them, trust them to be decent enough to live with? I would suggest that perhaps we need TRUST all the time. If we really want to live together at all, we need a lot of TRUST. I mean we need to put a strange kind of trust in one another, in communities, in the church!
A discussion starter for Pentecost
A discussion starter for Pentecost - Part 2 - 5 meg - 5 minutes Jesus did not give the church a text or a code of law, and he did not 'institutionalize' it in the usual sense we give that word. Rather, he gave it his Spirit. He did not give that Spirit just to one or other special person, or even to a few of them.
Number 3 Sound file - mp3 - 10 meg - 11 minutes Read along - click here Sample : Most people might find it hard to understand random pieces of Scripture out of context, and they might be hard put to it to find an overall theme that would help them in their Christian lives now. I am going to suggest one here. It is the theme of violence and gentleness, the theme of the transformation of violence into gentleness over the course of a lifetime and longer.
Number 4 Sound file - mp3 - 10 meg - 10 minutes Read along - click here Sample : Many people don't appreciate that Doxology enough. They don't appreciate the Eucharistic Prayer enough. This is largely because they were educated, in the Western Church tradition, to emphasize the 'words of consecration' so much.
Number 5 Sound file - mp3 - 10 meg - 10 minutes Read along - click here Sample : Most people might find it hard to understand random pieces of Scripture out of context, and they might be hard put to it to find an overall theme that would help them in their Christian lives now. I am going to suggest one here. It is the theme of violence and gentleness, the theme of the transformation of violence into gentleness over the course of a lifetime and longer.
Number 6 Sound file - mp3 - 10 meg - 10 minutes Read along - click here Sample : We have to discover a very different kind of presence in the Eucharist. It is not the objective presence of thing to thing. It is not the presence that a folk group or community can subjectively experience. It is unique to God. Presence. |
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