PERMANENT DEACON TALKING

 Will Pope Leo XIV announce the call to Love on the 18th May?

 Laurence Freeman OSB Excerpts from Talks at a retreat in Montreal, 2002

  FINDING ONE SELF  - Copy and paste the following into your browser-

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  A retreat given by a Jesuit priest made the point that the words found in Isaiah  mentioned earlier are like love letters sent from God who keeps on saying “ I give myself to you”. The retreat master Fr Greg also provided exercises for ways in which we can listen for God in everyday situations where he pours out gifts of love throughout our lives if we are prepared to look for them. It could be our parents , or a sunny trip abroad, the smell of a BBQ, a grandmother and her grandchild, an ocean liner, a blue sky. One aim of the retreat was to then be thankful for these gifts every day once you had recognised them for what they are. This is how God love us and is the way we fulfil the commandment of Jesus to love one another. As I have loved you. That is with great generosity and gratitude.

R 1 ACTS 14:21-27

R 2 REV 21: 1-5

GOSPEL John 13: 31-35

Hymn - Lord I Surrender - M.Anderson

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FIRST READING - ACTS 13:14, 43-52

SECOND READING REV  7:9.14-17

GOSPEL  JOHN 10:27-30

“John saw a large number, impossible to count, of people from every nation”. These people had suffered but were promised  to be led to springs of living water.  There are two unusual images presented in this selection of John’s Revelation story. The first image is of a group of people from every race who have been persecuted and a second image of the same people being  told they will never be plagued by anything again.

HYMN - Let The Trumpet Sound - Mike Anderson 

The Way of Meditation  - Laurence Freeman OSB

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The gift of friendship and love given to Peter is an example of the same gift offered to us all every day. Pope Francis asked in 2019 .  "What gift we can thank God for today?

Opening prayer on the Eucharist is by Fr Don Goergan.

Gospel - John  21: 1-19

Bishop Robert Barron gives much information on Apocalypse 5: 11-14 at wordonfire.com. which has now been running for 25 years!

'This Day was Made by the Lord ' is a Mike Anderson setting of Psalm 117 for Easter.
Blessed Solanus' Spiritual Communion is read by Fr Dan Crosby.

The Meditation today is from a Redemptorist children's liturgy.

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SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER

"Tombstone"  (©  Pope Francis homily on the Easter Vigil of 2019 ) https://youtu.be/1kBdYFlitwE?feature=shared

 GOSPEL JOHN 20::19-31

ACTS 5:12-6. REV 1:9-11PSALM ; Give praise to the Lord for he is good, his mercy endures forever.

Music 'NOW I KNOW WHAT LOVE IS' © Mike Anderson 2004, 2025 

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1 Reading.  Isaiah 43:16-2
2 Reading     Philippians 3:8-14

Music  - Mike Anderson  - Hymn ; Praise The Lord
Gospel Reading - sundaygospel.co.uk   John 8:1-11 

          There is an old definition of Charity that includes thinking the best of others and maybe giving the ‘benefit of the doubt’ in their favour. It has a special link with mercy and trying to be less judgemental or swift to condemn. It’s about slowing down, cooling our self-righteousness and not throwing the first stone. The Gospel for today presents us with the events surrounding the woman taken before Jesus to test him and shame her. When St Augustine of Canterbury wrote about  this he made the comparison that Jesus is the perfect example of Mercy, compared to the accusers lack of compassion.These self- righteous officials are more concerned with trapping Jesus and their indignation seems contrived to make Jesus slip up so that they can charge him with some major error.Jesus responds in silence and then by writing on the ground asks them to spend a moment of self reflection. Did he write the words  reported as spoken to them. “Let the sinless one among you be the first to throw a stone at her” . No one knows but it did result in the accusers performing an examination of conscience. 

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 Joshua 5: 9-12   .      2 Cor 5:17-21.  .

 Gospel Luke 15:1-32       (video available from ; sundaygospel.co.uk)

          The ‘Prodigal Son’ in the Gospel today has been the main point of this parable for many interpretations. I would like to use the method “Just as…. So….”, to emphasise the other brother.  Just as the elder brother is bitter, so are some Christians today. Sometimes our sense of injustice and bitterness can prevent us from joining the party.

Pope Francis'  prayer for Lent
Mindfulness Meditation 4  - Sounds
Blessed Solanus' prayer for Spiritual Communion
Lord Have Mercy © M.Anderson Hymn in the style of laid back jazz from Mass of the Risen Lord.

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Fr. James McSweeney -from 'Stepping Stones on our Spiritual Journey - Youtube 
What is Lent really all about? The knot of a tree gives us a clue. https://youtu.be/lon70fqE-eQ?feature=shared

Gospel Luke 13:1-9
Luke is the main Gospel writer who stands up for the lowly in society. He is delicate towards women, the poor and the outcast and has earned the title, ‘the evangelist of God’s tenderness’. He tells us how Jesus was often criticised for mixing with sinners and how he responded with phrases such as, “It is not those who are in health who are in need of the physician, it is those who are sick”. Perhaps Luke is implying that there is another group in need of help; those who are very well in the eyes of the world but are urgently in need of repentance.Is the parable of the Fig Tree  a comparison of this.?

Mike Anderson - Praise the Lord who Heals The Broken Hearted.

Mindfulness  Meditation 3

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Prayer for Ukraine -Fr. James McSweeney -from 'Stepping Stones on our Spiritual Journey - Youtube -2022

Luke 9 : 28-36
" Luke gives us a glimpse of the Risen Christ in the middle of his account of the humanity of Jesus going about his daily life on earth. Seeing the Divine in Jesus is known as ‘ Transcendence’ and Luke has a wonderful phrase “brilliant as lightening”. Seeing this is unnerving for the Apostles, particularly bringing out the sense of majesty as the light is reflected in Moses and Elijah. The last time Moses bathed in such light he was in the presence of God, and this is what Luke is implying for his readers". 

Fr Dan Crosby explains the prayer for Spiritual Communion by Blessed Solanus.

Mike Anderson Hymn - Sing it in the Valleys

Mindfullness Meditation  Lent 2

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HOMPOD - LENT 1 - YEAR C

Deuteronomy - 26:4-10
Romans 10:8-13
Gospel Luke 4:1-13

Psalm - Be with me, O Lord, in my distress  Music © Mike Anderson 2004, 2025
Verses based on Psalm 90/91 © The Grail, England, and used with permission.

Hymn - Now I Know What Love Is © Mike Anderson

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ECCLESIASTICUS  27:4-7

1 CORINTH 15:54-58

LUKE 6:39-45

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