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Deadly conflicts and loss of lives continue in military-ruled Myanmar with Christians and churches being targeted in attacks. In other Asian nations, people keep striving for recovery, freedom and rights amid natural and man-made calamities.

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Jesus is being cross examined by his enemies not to find out the truth about him but to trip him up and make him unable to act. What is his circuit breaker? He refuses to play their game. The only thing he does is to engage with people searching for the truth. And when he finds people who won’t join him in that quest, the only thing left to Jesus is to disengage.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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There is a lot of passion flowing in and around the text in today’s Gospel. But all that action really points in one direction - to the significance of faith and the power of faith to move, change, transform people and circumstances.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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Many miracles in the Synoptic Gospels involve the restoration of people’s sight because seeing with new eyes is part of what Jesus wants to do for us as believers. Seeing differently and more deeply into reality is what happens when we come to believe and find God in places we never expected to. We end up having faith in ways, about people and circumstances that we never imagined could carry such a rich treasure.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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Mark’s Gospel is wonderful for its clarity and simplicity. It shows Jesus coming straight to the point and shows his apostles to as blunt, self-interested and completely unaware of the way they dig holes for themselves as any naively ambitious group can be. But that is the Gospel’s strength: it shows Jesus followers to be people like us - unintelligent and self-interested - and Jesus to be exactly what he remains for us: understanding, patient and accepting as he forgives our self-interest and overlooks how silly and stupid we can be.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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The ebb and flow of good fortune and blessing are constants in all faith journeys and we see that again recorded in today’s Gospel. There is no simple way to account for it, predict its course or anticipate its twists. What we need is simple faith to know we are in God’s hands and to look for the strength and joy that can bring.

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Today’s Gospel according to Matthew contains the significant last words of Jesus that have become central to the prayer life of so many over the centuries and also the basis of so many musical compositions. But the concentration we may have on them should never distract us from what else is going on. This passage is one where Matthew constitutes the Church seen in the way John Takes Jesus mother into his home and they live their Christian life in the shadow of the Cross.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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The Church exists not to be a club of the saved, but to be the herald of the Gospel. Our first concern must always be with those who are outside, for the men and women who have not yet come to know Christ.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.

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Pentecost Sunday is the birthday of the Church. It is the day when we celebrate the movement of the Holy Spirit to gather and confirm the impact of God in gathering believers into the community that becomes the Church. It is also the day when we mark the age of the Spirit which begins the phase of the Church’s life after the first decades of the Church when those who knew Jesus and developed the first Christian communities (the Apostolic era) began to spread the Gospel and build communities that were the expression of God’s new life and desire for the new generations of Christians.

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Pope Francis has appointed a fellow Jesuit as the new bishop of politically volatile Hong Kong in an attempt to unite the city’s divided Catholic community. In other parts of Asia, people struggle for peace and tolerance amid an onslaught of violence and repression. 

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