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  Bruised and wounded, understanding suicide

  Jul 24, 2021

  Suicide is a disease, something that in most cases takes a person out of life against his or her will, the emotional equivalent of cancer, a stroke, or a heart attack.

  
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  Reflecting on the Psalms: The Faithfulness of God

  Jul 24, 2021

  Our human nature compels us to go down on our knees crying out to God when trouble storms our peaceful lives. This can come in the form of sickness, pain, suffering from failed relationships, misunderstandings and financial woes.

  
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  ‘It is darkest before the dawn’

  Jul 23, 2021

  There is an old saying, “It is always darkest before the dawn.” And God knows we are going through dark times, when the dawn just refuses to come.

  
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  Amid desperate times, where is Hope?

  Jul 17, 2021

  Even amid the most difficult and trying situations, if we keep our eye on Jesus and his Beatitudes for the Kingdom, we will prevail. So, amid the despair and suffering, let us never lose hope that a new kingdom awaits. But first we have work to do.

  
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  Reflecting on the Psalms: The whole of nature has to make way for the coming of God

  Jul 17, 2021

  Our lives alternate with happiness, sadness and other emotions in tandem with different events that affect us or those close to us.

  
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  Why in the Church?

  Jul 17, 2021

  There is no pure Church anywhere for us to join, just as there is no pure country anywhere for us in which to live. This Church, for all its chequered history and compromised present, is all we have.

  
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  Silent victims of the pandemic

  Jul 17, 2021

  Abuse does not discriminate. It cuts across all ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. It comes in many forms and harms people physically, emotionally, and mentally.

  
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  ‘We are the ones’ (who can make a difference)

  Jul 10, 2021

  Last week’s column looked at the parable of the five loaves and two fish and ended by hoping that if we use what little we have at our disposal, we could work modern-day miracles.

  
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  Reflecting on the Psalms: The poor of Yahweh

  Jul 10, 2021

  One of the words that occurs frequently in the psalms is the word ‘poor’. The word comes from the root ‘anah’, which means to oppress, to humiliate.

  
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  What’s inside the face of God?

  Jul 10, 2021

  O God, for you I long; for you my soul is thirsting. My body pines for you like a dry, weary land without water.