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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

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It must have taken a great amount of courage for Jesus to turn in the direction of Jerusalem, knowing what lay in front of him.

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Today’s gospel is a strange story. Picture Jesus merciful and compassionate, refusing to even acknowledge - let alone speak to - a distraught mother who pleads for her daughter to be cured.

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Saint of the Month: St Clare

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Feast day: 11 August

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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”  (Franklin D Roosevelt)

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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The miracle in today’s gospel is the only one mentioned by all four evangelists.

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Saint of the Month: St Oliver Plunkett

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Feast day: 1 July

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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In the time of Jesus, pearls were very valuable, since diving for them was very dangerous.

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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Darnel is a noxious weed, which in the early stages resembles wheat. When it ripens it turns black, in contrast with wheat which turns brown.

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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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The Bible is full of stories and references to country life. Such imagery sinks deep into the consciousness of the listener, in a way that words do not.

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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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The first followers of Jesus were simple, probably uneducated, people. They accepted Jesus in a way that the Jewish leaders did not.

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