Cathedral News
Advent Service
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A service marking the beginning of Advent, featuring Vox Orbis directed by Mark Keane.
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
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The Book of Malachi was written after the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, probably between 440 and 400 BC.
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Today’s parable must be one of the best known. The front seats in church are usually vacant, since many people don’t want to be seen behaving like the vain protagonist in the story.
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Jesus often used dramatic situations to emphasise his teaching. The steward in the parable, who could not pay his debt, owed ten thousand talents, which would be billions in today’s money.
Saint of the Month: St John Ogilvie
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St John Ogilvie, the only recorded Scottish martyr, is remembered on 14 October.
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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It is interesting that the two lepers who expressed gratitude to God were foreigners. Naaman was a Syrian, whose cure in the river Jordan was brought about through a young slave girl from Israel.
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Habakkuk lived probably sometime in the seventh century BC, when the power of Babylon was growing.
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Today we have another well-known parable which Jesus told, which is unique in that he named a character in the story.