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GOSPEL LUKE 12: 

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GOSPEL LUKE 12:13-21.  

The things you have prepared whose will they be?

Prayer for people who are hungry  By Helen Moriarty/CAFOD

Music - HEAR ME LORD ( excerpt)     https://youtu.be/nMF6_j3B41I?feature=shared. 

 Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group   Hear Me Lord · Bonnie Raitt  The Best Of Bonnie Raitt On Capitol 1989-2003 ℗ 2002 Capitol Records, LLC    Released on: 2003-01-01

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1st Reading  Genesis 18: 20-32                          Gospel LUKE 11:1-13

2nd Reading  Coll 2:12-14

Hymn -Our Father from MASS OF THE RISEN LORD.
© Mike Anderson 
Produced by Pete Haslam, it features the vocal talents of Jennifer Whittall, Dave Glynn-Whitehead and Heather Rowson

John Main Twelve Talks for Meditators - 04 Saying the Mantra I
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“These talks are intended to help you prepare for the silence of meditation. They are designed to help you bring your mind to a state of peacefulness and concentration and point you in the direction you need to be facing in your meditation, which is centre-wards. My recommendation is that you listen to just one of them at a time, and then begin your meditation.” JOHN MAIN

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1st Reading  Genesis 1: 24-28                           Gospel LUKE 10:38-42

2nd Reading  Coll 1:24-28

Martha and Mary - How different would the situation be if they had first planned how they could co-operate in both showing hospitality and both paying full attention to Jesus. Their efforts together could have afforded time for both to serve the food and drink and both to sit and listen to their guest. What stops this ideal is the surfacing of what has come to be called a vice.Any good thing can be twisted into a temptation which if followed can damage us a little. A vice constantly followed can damage us viciously.

Hymn -Come Jesus, Come
© Mike Anderson 2002

John Main Twelve Talks for Meditators - 03  The Tradition of the Mantra II
© The World Community for Christian Meditation 2012
“These talks are intended to help you prepare for the silence of meditation. They are designed to help you bring your mind to a state of peacefulness and concentration and point you in the direction you need to be facing in your meditation, which is centre-wards. My recommendation is that you listen to just one of them at a time, and then begin your meditation.” JOHN MAIN

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Lord of mercy, compassion and eternal love.
1st Reading  Deut 30: 10-14                           Gospel LUKE 10:25-37
2nd Reading  Coll 1:15-20
           The parable of the Good Samaritan can be looked at in all sorts of ways .
Advice on kindness and social concern or how not to be a hypocrite or too caught up in our self importance to be delayed from our more worthwhile plans.
One interpretation I found to be useful is to see the story as an encounter with Jesus himself who wants everyone to be like him. To imitate his compassion and works of mercy. Could the Good Samaritan be Jesus himself?
The spiritual life is one of undulations . The difficult thing to understand is that sometimes it is on the lowest point that an encounter with Jesus can occur or even  an offer to enter into the compassionate love shared in the Trinity. 

Another idea couldbe helpful if we look at the parable  as if we were on a path searching for holiness but being tempted on all sides and under constant attack by the worldly attractions along the way.

Hymn -Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted
© Mike Anderson 2008 (Re-written 2021) BasedonPsalm146/147 ©TheGrail,England,andusedwithpermission.

John Main Twelve Talks for Meditators - 02 The Tradition of the Mantra I
© The World Community for Christian Meditation 2012
“These talks are intended to help prepare for the silence of meditation. They are designed to help you bring your mind to a state of peacefulness and concentration and point you in the direction you need to be facing in your meditation, which is centre-wards. My recommendation is that you listen to just one of them at a time, and then begin your meditation.” JOHN MAIN

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WELCOMERS OR WOLVES  -  Who will the 72 disciples meet?

1st Reading  Isaiah 66: 10-14                                   Gospel LUKE 10:1-12,17-20

2nd Reading GALATIANS 6:14-18

Manchester Universities at this time of year appoint some of their third year students as ‘ Ambassadors’. Their job is to show prospective new undergraduates around and give them a real face to face message of what it might be like to study live ,work and play as a member of their particular campus. They prepare the ground for the Dean, professors and lecturers to explain more formally and in greater detail what belonging to Manchester university’s psychology or English Department really means.

Sing it in the Valleys - Mike Anderson.© Kevin Mayhew Ltd. 1999

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PSALM 33 From all my terrors set me free. Copyright -Mike Anderson

GOSPEL Matt 16:13-19

Prayer Fr Don Goegan

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Corpus Christi      Sunday,  June 22, 2025

1st Reading GENESIS 14: 18-20                                Gospel LUKE 9:11-17

2nd Reading 1 COR 11:23-26

Fr Dan Crosby - Becoming The Eucharist We Celebrate' 

TAKE, BLESS, BROKEN, SHARE

         In our three scripture readings today we are celebrating the great gift of the Holy Eucharist that is the sacramental part of each and every Mass.

'Lord We Bring You Bread' -© Mike Anderson 2001

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  Trinity Sunday          15th June 2025 

                Gospel JOHN 16:12-15

Spiritual direction from Fr Henry Wannsbourough’s Wednesday Word and a Retreat with the Spiritual Exercises; Images, Poems and Stories -Rev Gregory L Carson, S.J.D.Phil

      “ Give praise to the Father Almighty.

            To his Son Jesus Christ the Lord,

              To the Spirit who dwells in our hearts,

                 Both now and forever.   Amen”      

         Jesus is our first step before plunging into any commitment , and as we  struggle to  a deeper faith in the Holy Trinity.

MUSIC ; ‘Help us focus on you, Lord ‘ -© Mike Anderson 2020

Rabindranath Tagore  -  (1952), Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore, Macmillan Publishing (published January 1952), ISBN 978-0-02-615920-3

LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET - Rainer Maria Rilke- COPYRIGHT 1934 BY W . W . NORTON & COMPANY, INC. RENEWED 1962 BY M. D. HERTER NORTON REVISED EDITION COPYRIGHT 1954 BY W . W . NORTON & COMPANY, INC.

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1st Reading ACTS 15: 1-2,22-29             Gospel JOHN 14:23-29

2nd Reading REV 21:10-14

HYMN -  Come Spirit Come -© Mike Anderson 2013

           In John’s revelation today we have the wonderful vision of the Holy City –the New Jerusalem –the place of peace. When all the saved are joined together on the bedrock of the Apostles. In this ‘Jerusalem of lights’, there is no need of any Temple. The presence of the Lord God and the Lamb make the whole city a sacred area with the Holy Spirit shining like diamonds from the hearts of all the residents.   

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