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Deacons – the diaconate – women deacons
Dr Phyllis Zagano and Dr Joe Grayland discuss the diaconate and the actual need for deacons and women deacons. When we talk about the diaconate, we’re talking about many, many different things. What good is the diaconate? Why would anybody want to be a deacon, particularly a woman? Why would a woman want to be…
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Unified in love
Jesus lives out of his love for the Father. He doesn’t need to be small and fit in to the limited ideas of those who criticise him. He seeks to expand their understanding. As we journey along with him we are reminded of the unifying love between Jesus and the Father. They are one and…
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Freedom
There is a true freedom that enters our living by remaining in Jesus. His presence freeing us from a Me First world and opens up a freer way to be human, demonstrated in our no longer living for ourselves but for others. The Jesus we hear in our gospel today, wants us to know that…
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A time to walk with Jesus
This week before Holy Week we are invited to walk with Jesus, a Jesus condemned and hunted down but intensely in love with the Father. The last words of Pope Emeritus Benedict, “Jesus, I love you”. In our preparing for Holy Week, it is helpful to be aware of our love for Jesus and then…
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Preparing for Good Friday
Our Lenten Fridays echo Good Friday, our hearts are being slowly prepared to be with the one we love as he suffers. Although Jesus reluctantly goes to Jerusalem as secretly as he can, those there, when they recognise him, want to arrest him. The opposition intensifies and Jesus proclaims the Kingdom, God’s way of being…
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Yes!
As we are moving towards Holy Week, today’s feast suddenly widens our focus to include the beginnings of all of this. It is so refreshing to feel the imagination of God. We have our ways of being human in this world of ours and today we are reminded of God’s loving imagination. Mary is invited…
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Jesus in the midst of our pain
Mary shows us the way, she helps us to appreciate how essential our relationship with Jesus is. “If you had of been here…..” This plea of hers stirs Jesus, she and he and all those concerned seemingly are in tears in the face of the coldness of death. There is a no experience, no matter…
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Shame
We can feel the shame of this woman. Sadly, we live in a society that favours shame and disgrace; not a place God can call home. Whatever Jesus was scribbling in the ground was blown away in the wind. What was not blown away and all these centuries later remains, is the non-condemnation of Jesus…
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Priesthood and power while in the dentist’s chair
Recently recently attended a personal development session in New Zealand designed for diocesan priests, where the person leading the training said that in every relationship, the priest has power over everyone else. Grayland thinks the analysis is a little limiting. “I actually thought it was a little bit clericalist list as well. “But apparently, even…
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Restorative justice and sexual abuse
This Flashes of Insight conversation looks at the sexual abuse crisis from the perspective of restorative justice. It asks whether the experience for Church ministers is an opportunity for the theology of reconciliation to grow into change? It considers whether restorative justice a matter of putting things back together as they were, as it were…
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