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	<description>I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.</description>
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		<title>Crazy Enough to Live Eternally</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/08/crazy-live-eternally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And while Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, &#8216;Paul, you are out of your mind!&#8221; (Acts 26:24). Paul answered the charge by insisting that he was speaking &#8220;words of sober truth.&#8221; The Greek word translated &#8220;sober&#8221; denotes &#8220;mental soundness, moderation, good sense, self-control.&#8221; Certainly Paul&#8217;s measured and controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading Wednesday, Week 5 of the year.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/08/gospel-reading-wednesday-week-5-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alleluia, alleluia! Your word is truth, O Lord: consecrate us in the truth. Alleluia! &#160; Gospel Mark 7:14-23 Alleluia, alleluia! Your word is truth, O Lord: consecrate us in the truth. Alleluia!Jesus called the people to him and said, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into a man from outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Threat of legal action against me</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/07/stuart-charles-bishop-announces-intention-pursue-legally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I received notice of an intent to pursue me legally for this blog post which would presumably come under the law of defamation and specifically libel. This was part of the correspondence I received: I have referred the rest of your grossly inaccurate comments about the situation with [names forum] to my legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/07/24224/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation  Alleluia, alleluia! Bend my heart to your will, O Lord, and teach me your law. Alleluia! &#160; The Gospel Mark 7:1-13 The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/06/good-links-55/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Catholic Boy Richard &#8211; “Getting It Straight” on Same-Gender Attraction…And Rick Santorum A Grain of Sand &#8211; Fairness Liberal Conspiracy &#8211; Why was my friend jailed over botched attempt to end his own life? Dreaming Beneath the Spires &#8211; Successful Christians; Hidden Christians Get Religion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let us receive the light whose brilliance is eternal</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/02/receive-light-brilliance-eternal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a sermon by Saint Sophronius, bishop In honour of the divine mystery that we celebrate today, let us all hasten to meet Christ. Everyone should be eager to join the procession and to carry a light. Our lighted candles are a sign of the divine splendour of the one who comes to expel the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d like to make a public apology to Paul Priest</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/02/public-apology-paul-priest/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/02/public-apology-paul-priest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to publicly apologise to Paul Priest who I have recently treated in a contemptible, uncharitable, and mocking manner, and have done so in public. So I offer this public apology. Sorry Bro. Forgive me.]]></description>
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		<title>The mind&#8217;s sense of taste teaches the art of spiritual discernment</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/02/minds-sense-taste-teaches-art-spiritual-discernment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/02/minds-sense-taste-teaches-art-spiritual-discernment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diadochus of Photica, &#8220;On Spiritual Perfection&#8221; The light that true knowledge gives out is the ability to distinguish unerringly what is right from what is wrong. This being so, the path of uprightness – which leads the mind towards God, the radiant sun of righteousness – takes that same mind into an unbounded light of knowledge and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading, Wednesday week 4 of the year</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/01/gospel-reading-wednesday-week-4-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice, says the Lord, I know them and they follow me. Alleluia! &#160;  Gospel Mark 6:1-6 Jesus went to his home town and his disciples accompanied him. With the coming of the sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue and most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/31/quote-day-134/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read recently a comment saying that, in the future, when Christianity has largely died out in a secular and decadent West, Christians will not be known for how they worship or who they follow, but simply as that strange bunch of people who don&#8217;t kill babies and don&#8217;t kill their old people. I could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading Tuesday week 4 of the year</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/31/gospel-reading-tuesday-week-4-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, says the Lord; No one can come to the Father except through me. Alleluia! Gospel Mark 5:21-43 When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lakeside. Then one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/30/good-links-54/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Random Ramblings of a Stay at Home Mum &#8211; Better off without you CIFWatch &#8211; What the Guardian won’t report: Christians in Iran, Syria face rising persecution Religion and the Media &#8211; Religion = Religious Affiliation? ListVerse &#8211; Top 10 Suicidal Writers Francis Sedgemore &#8211; Nutter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doesn&#8217;t this put everything back into perspective!</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/29/put-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought this a simultaneously beautiful, uplifting, encouraging, hopeful, harrowing, honest and brave testimony. Written by Tim Elmer, posted on Premier Forum, and shared here with permission. I am a terminal cancer patient currently on a reprieve due to two experimental drugs, but I should have been dead three years ago.  That&#8217;s my latest near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading from St Thomas Aquinas Priest and Doctor</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/28/reading-st-thomas-aquinas-priest-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cross exemplifies every virtue Why did the Son of God have to suffer for us? There was a great need, and it can be considered in a twofold way: in the first place, as a remedy for sin, and secondly, as an example of how to act.  It is a remedy, for, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading Saturday 3rd week of the year</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/28/gospel-reading-saturday-3rd-week-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son: everyone who believes in him has eternal life. Alleluia! Gospel Mark 4:35-41 With the coming of evening, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Let us cross over to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts: Self-Identity, Gay, Christian, Mental Illness, Personality Disorders, Rights, Newspeak&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/28/hard-publicly-declare-christian-imagine-personality-disorder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post in which I muse a little, raise questions, and answer very little&#8230;.. I Tweeted earlier: I sincerely believe that it is easier to publicly proclaim your sexuality than it is to declare mental illness and personality disorders. This was met with a small chorus of agreement. This thought derived from an incident on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading for Friday, 3rd week of year</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/27/gospel-reading-friday-3rd-week-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children. Alleluia! &#160;  The Gospel Mark 4:26-34 Jesus said to the crowds, ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man throws seed on the land. Night and day, while he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lame Excuses for Not Praying</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/25/lame-excuses-praying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh this is good. Obviously I can&#8217;t just nick all ten lame excuses for not praying and so here&#8217;s my 3 faves: 4. &#8220;Prayer just changes us, not situations.&#8221; (Who told you that, the providence fairy? It changes both!) 7. &#8220;God won&#8217;t take me seriously.&#8221; (Yeah, especially if you never talk to him. Start now!) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripture Readings  &#8211; The Conversion of St Paul, Apostle</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/25/scripture-readings-conversion-st-paul-apostle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Acts 9:1-22 Saul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord’s disciples. He had gone to the high priest and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any followers of the Way, men or women, that he could find. Suddenly, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/25/quote-day-131/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, did we not blog in your name and perform many online miracles? Get away from me, you worker of WordPress, I never knew you.. SOURCE: Me feeling a little low at 4am this morning.]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/25/good-links-53/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Future Shape of Church &#8211; Ecumenical Matters Parchment and Pen &#8211; When God Does Not Show Up Center for Law and Religion &#8211; Can the State Order a Church to “De-Baptize” Someone? Chelliah Laity &#8211; Bishops Accused of Not Being So Christian Slate &#8211; That’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A picture of my universe whilst in a spiritual malaise</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/24/picture-universe-spiritual-malaise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The god of ME.]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Benedict advocates silent contemplation in a world overflowing with information and communication</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/24/pope-benedict-advocates-silent-contemplation-world-overflowing-information-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This message from the Pope was pertinent and salient to me personally and so I thought I&#8217;d share it. As we draw near to World Communications Day 2012, I would like to share with you some reflections concerning an aspect of the human process of communication which, despite its importance, is often overlooked and which, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading Tuesday,Week 3 of the Year.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/24/gospel-reading-tuesdayweek-3-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children. Alleluia! &#160; Gospel Mark 3:31-35 The mother and brothers of Jesus arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countering the misconception that the Christian preoccupation with abortion is a modern phenomenon.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/23/countering-misconception-christian-preoccupation-abortion-modern-phenomenon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to be encountering a growing misconception that the Christian &#8220;obsession&#8221; with the evils of abortion is a modern construct. Here&#8217;s an example of such thinking: &#8230;.the Catholic church has decided to make abortion its cause célèbre in its battle for social and moral relevance. I&#8217;d like to point anybody labouring under this misconception to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading for Monday, week 3 of the year</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/23/gospel-reading-monday-week-3-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! Teach me your paths, my God, make me walk in your truth. Alleluia! &#160; The Gospel Mark 3:22-30 The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, ‘Beelzebul is in him’ and, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he casts devils out.’ So he called them to him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading, 3rd Sunday of year</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/22/gospel-reading-3rd-sunday-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! The kingdom of God is close at hand: repent, and believe the Good News. Alleluia! &#160;  The Gospel Mark 1:14-20 After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tyranny of Niceness</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/21/tyranny-niceness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great post by the Grain of Sand on the modern tyranny of niceness, which is in the same spirit as a fab little article on ‘niceness’ by the Anchoress – Elizabeth Scalia – entitled: The Shushing Tyranny of “Be Nice!” I am not a nice person. I have no wish to be a nice person. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changed by the Lord’s victory over evil &#8211; Christian Unity Day 4</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/21/changed-lords-victory-evil-christian-unity-day-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overcome evil with good (Rom 12:21) Readings Ex 23:1-9 Do not follow the majority in wrongdoing Psalm  1 Happy are those whose delight is in the law of the Lord Rom 12:17-22  Overcome evil with good Mt 4:1-11 Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only &#160; Commentary  In Jesus we learn what ‘victory’ really means for human beings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading, Saturday week 2 of the year</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/21/gospel-reading-saturday-week-2-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. Alleluia! &#160; Gospel Mark 3:20-21 Jesus went home, and once more such a crowd collected that they could not even have a meal. When his relatives heard of this, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Unity, Friday, Day Three: Changed by the Suffering Servant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christ suffered for us (cf. 1 Pt 2:21) This day calls us to reflect on the suffering of Christ. Following Christ the Suffering Servant, Christians are called to solidarity with all who suffer. The closer we come to the cross of Christ the closer we come to one another. &#160; Readings  Is 53:3-11  The man of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Octave of Christianity Unity- We will all be changed by the Victory of our Lord Jesus Christ.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gosh, how quickly time flies, we are once again in midst of the eight days of Christian unity. Apologies for being a little late, but here are the themes for each day. &#160; Day One: Changed by the Servant Christ The Son of Man came to serve (cf. Mk 10:45) On this day we encounter Jesus, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Gospel, Friday, week 2 of the year.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! Through the Good News God called us to share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Alleluia! &#160; The Gospel Mark 3:13-19 Jesus went up into the hills and summoned those he wanted. So they came to him and he appointed twelve; they were to be his companions and to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Reading for Thursday week 2 of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life; you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia! &#160; The Gospel Mark 3:7-12 &#160; Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lakeside, and great crowds from Galilee followed him. From Judaea, Jerusalem, Idumaea, Transjordania and the region of Tyre and Sidon, great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh you need to hear this as much as I do&#8230;.</title>
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		<title>Gospel for today, Wednesday week 2 of the year.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! The word of God is something alive and active: it can judge secret emotions and thoughts. Alleluia! &#160; The Gospel  Mark 3:1-6 Jesus went again into a synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand. And they were watching him to see if he would cure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Fingerprint and the Godincidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in a rather uncommunicative mode right now, which a sharp eyed observer of this blog would be able to deduce, as I&#8217;m posting links to others, rather than producing much in the way of original material. Today, on my walk in the forest with Wifey, we came across an elderly couple and exchanged pleasantries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel Reading &#8211; Tuesday, Week 2 of year.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our mind, so that we can see what hope his call holds for us. Alleluia! &#160; The Gospel  Mark 2:23-28 One sabbath day Jesus happened to be taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples began to pick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/16/good-links-51/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Deacon&#8217;s Bench &#8211; Best. Fingerpainting. Ever. The Thirsty Gargoyle &#8211; The Pope and the Diplomats Mail Online &#8211; BBC sex education video &#8216;is like porn&#8217; Accepting Abundance &#8211; Cognitive Dissonance and Geocentrism A Grain of Sand &#8211; God is the Issue The Atlantic &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel Reading for Monday, Week 2 of the year.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation  Alleluia, alleluia! The word of God is something alive and active: it can judge secret emotions and thoughts. Alleluia! &#160; The Gospel Mark 2:18-22 One day when John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some people came to Jesus and said to him, ‘Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Gospel Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/15/todays-gospel-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! We have found the Messiah – which means the Christ – grace and truth have come through him. Alleluia! &#160; Gospel John 1:35-42 As John stood with two of his disciples, Jesus passed, and John stared hard at him and said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God.’ Hearing this, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/14/quote-day-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Year of Faith promises much, but if there is one aspect I would want to emphasize, it is this. All theological disciplines, every attempt to articulate or express faith, should begin, and end, in prayer. Only prayer can keep us centred on Christ and in charity with one another, because only prayer can enable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For prayerful reading, today&#8217;s Gospel.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/14/prayerful-reading-todays-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel Acclamation  Alleluia, alleluia! Bend my heart to your will, O Lord, and teach me your law. Alleluia! &#160;  The Gospel Mark 2:13-17 Jesus went out to the shore of the lake; and all the people came to him, and he taught them. As he was walking on he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/12/quote-day-121/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But frustrations should not be permitted to draw us, even subtly, toward a posture that practically speaking severs our union with the bishops. SOURCE]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Scripture Reading for today&#8217;s Gospel.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/12/sacred-scripture-reading-todays-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia! Because of your love give me life, and I will do your will. Alleluia! &#160; &#160; The Gospel  A leper came to Jesus and pleaded on his knees: ‘If you want to’ he said ‘you can cure me.’ Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/10/quote-day-119/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us with dogmatic personalities—and that includes many who take the Faith seriously in a hostile culture—have an additional spiritual hurdle, because we so often confuse our commitment to God’s principles with our own self-importance as God’s spokesmen. This can lead to a habit of self-righteous indignation, as if we must denounce others in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Scripture &#8211; Readings for Tuesday of Week 1 of the Year.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/10/sacred-scripture-readings-tuesday-week-1-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; First reading 1 Samuel 1:9-20 After they had eaten in the hall, Hannah rose and took her stand before the Lord, while Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. In the bitterness of her soul she prayed to the Lord with many tears and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/09/good-links-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: CIFwatch &#8211; Was Moses a colonizer? The Guardian’s Nicholas Lezard uncovers why us Jews are kleptomaniacs pmphillips&#8217;s posterous &#8211; The Way of Death is paved with&#8230; Left Foot Forward &#8211; 2012 – the year the world must wake up to Christian persecution NewScientist &#8211; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripture Readings for 9th January</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/09/scripture-readings-9th-january/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading 1Samuel 1:1-8 There was a man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the highlands of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. He had two wives, one called Hannah, the other Peninnah; Peninnah had children but Hannah had none. Every year this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baptism of the Lord &#8211; Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/08/baptism-lord-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Isaiah 55:1-11 Thus says the Lord: Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty; though you have no money, come! Buy corn without money, and eat, and, at no cost, wine and milk. Why spend money on what is not bread, your wages on what fails to satisfy? Listen, listen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church man in attack on wife</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/07/church-man-attack-wife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the headline that caught my attention in the local Coop emblazoned on the front page of one of my local newspapers: Church Man in Attack on Wife This is a grim story of a man who physically attacked his wife in the street, who it seems, was delivering clean washing to him and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Epiphany of the Lord &#8211; Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/06/epiphany-lord-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Isaiah 60:1-6 Arise, shine out, Jerusalem, for your light has come, the glory of the Lord is rising on you, though night still covers the earth and darkness the peoples. Above you the Lord now rises and above you his glory appears. The nations come to your light and kings to your dawning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th January &#8211; Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/04/4th-january-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading 1 John 3:7-10 My children, do not let anyone lead you astray: to live a holy life is to be holy just as he is holy; to lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil, since the devil was a sinner from the beginning. It was to undo all that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Holy Name of Jesus, 3rd Jan &#8211; Readings.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; First Reading 1 John 2:29-3:6 You know that God is righteous – then you must recognise that everyone whose life is righteous has been begotten by him. Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God’s children; and that is what we are. Because the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squaring up to what the faith embraces and for being on the journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had the privilege of meeting Richard Collins &#8211; Linen on the Hedgerow -  twice now and the second time he was with his lovely daughter, who kindly put together prayer cards for us bloggers. Here&#8217;s the prayer: God our Father, source of life and freedom, through Your Holy Spirit, you gave the Carmelite, Titus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come, let us worship the Lord, the fountain of Wisdom &#8211; Readings for 2nd January</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading 1 John 2:22-28 The man who denies that Jesus is the Christ – he is the liar, he is Antichrist; and he is denying the Father as well as the Son, because no one who has the Father can deny the Son, and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 8th Day of Christmas Octave. The Feast of the Mother of God, and the Naming and Circumcision of Christ.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Numbers 6:22-27 The Lord spoke to Moses and said, ‘Say this to Aaron and his sons: “This is how you are to bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7th Day of Christmas Octave</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/31/7th-day-christmas-octave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading 1John 2:18-21  Children, these are the last days; you were told that an Antichrist must come, and now several antichrists have already appeared; we know from this that these are the last days. Those rivals of Christ came out of our own number, but they had never really belonged; if they had belonged, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Question: Any New Year&#8217;s Resolutions or Hopes for 2012</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/30/friday-question-years-resolutions-hopes-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or any fears and worries for the upcoming year? Feel free to share anything or post prayers or whatever&#8230;..]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/29/quote-day-114/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does my Bipolar impact me spiritually? Massively. As you can see, I have fallen into sin many a time, especially when disinhibited by my mania. I used to lead a Ladies&#8217; Bible Study. I continued to lead it right through one of these episodes. Absolutely horrendous, the guilt I felt at that time. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good news on the grave sin of despair</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/28/good-news-sin-despair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wifey planted a pocket sized Catechism booklet in the toilet, which she does if she wishes me to read something, as I&#8217;m given to reading and pondering on the &#8216;throne&#8217;. Anyway, a few days ago I felt a little rocked when I read the following: What are the sins against hope? The sins against hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/28/good-links-48/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Accepting Abundance &#8211; On Dissent – Proud to be right? Vatican Insider &#8211; Jews alarmed by Messianic movement boom Cranmer &#8211; Alcohol price-fixing will not solve binge-drinking iBenedictines &#8211; Holy Innocents Ugley Vicar &#8211; Our Christmas Carol Sermon Outside the Assylum &#8211; Who cares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Day of Christmas Octave</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/28/4th-day-christmas-octave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading 1 John 1:5-2:2 This is what we have heard from Jesus Christ, and the message that we are announcing to you: God is light; there is no darkness in him at all. If we say that we are in union with God while we are living in darkness, we are lying because we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Question &#8211; Does your faith bring you joy?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/23/friday-question-faith-bring-joy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caveat: It&#8217;s probably worth noting before reading this that I have been fighting a particularly virulent attack of depression of late and this inevitably colours my view of things. The good news is that the cloud is beginning to lift. Earlier in the week sally posted &#8220;World Weary&#8221; in which she said: It seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacy &#8211; Accepting Abundance &#8211; Gets Cartoonized</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/23/stacy-accepting-abundance-cartoonized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in August there was literally a global response to Stacy&#8217;s post entitled: Can&#8217;t even go to the park, which I blogged about here. The post detailed an incident revolving around a gay couple engaged in a public display of affection. Well, it transpires today, that as a result of that blog post the incident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Week of Advent, Friday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/23/4th-week-advent-fridays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Malachi 3:1-4,23-24 The Lord God says this: Look, I am going to send my messenger to prepare a way before me. And the Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his Temple; and the angel of the covenant whom you are longing for, yes, he is coming, says the Lord of Hosts. Who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Week of Advent, Thursday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/22/4th-week-advent-thursdays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; First Reading 1 Samuel 1:24-28 When Hannah had weaned the infant Samuel, she took him up with her together with a three-year old bull, an ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the temple of the Lord at Shiloh; and the child was with them. They slaughtered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Week of Advent, Wednesday Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/21/4th-week-advent-wednesday-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Song of Songs 2:8-14 I hear my Beloved. See how he comes leaping on the mountains, bounding over the hills. My Beloved is like a gazelle, like a young stag. See where he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the window, he peers through the lattice. My Beloved lifts up his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Week of Advent, Tuesday Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/20/4th-week-advent-tuesday-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; First reading Isaiah 7:10-14  The Lord spoke to Ahaz and said, ‘Ask the Lord your God for a sign for yourself coming either from the depths of Sheol or from the heights above.’ ‘No,’ Ahaz answered ‘I will not put the Lord to the test.’ Then Isaiah said: ‘Listen now, House of David: are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Week of Advent, Monday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/19/4th-week-advent-mondays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Judges 13:2-7, 24-25 There was a man of Zorah of the tribe of Dan, called Manoah. His wife was barren, she had borne no children. The angel of the Lord appeared to this woman and said to her, ‘You are barren and have had no child. But from now on take great care. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Sunday of Advent</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/18/4th-sunday-advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we enter the 4th and final Week of Advent, and we draw ever closer to our Lord&#8217;s Advent and the dawning of our Salvation. Let us join with Mary, to trust God in all things and choose to say &#8216;Yes&#8217; praying with Mary, the cosmic changing prayer -&#8221;Fiat mihi&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Let what you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd Week of Advent, Friday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/16/3rd-week-advent-fridays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Isaiah 56:1-3,6-8 Thus says the Lord: Have a care for justice, act with integrity, for soon my salvation will come and my integrity be manifest. Blessed is the man who does this and the son of man who clings to it: observing the sabbath, not profaning it, and keeping his hand from every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh my goodness I&#8217;m so churchy</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/15/goodness-churchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadbutrue just Tweeted: Appears that my beloved Canon scanner is only good for scrap now &#8211; won&#8217;t work in Win7 or OSX I got as far as &#8220;&#8230;..only good for scrap now&#8230;..&#8221; and thought: Who on earth is Canon Scanner, I&#8217;ve never heard of him, I wonder which cathedral&#8230;.. Oh man, how churched am I?]]></description>
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		<title>3rd Week of Advent, Thursday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/15/3rd-week-advent-thursdays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Isaiah 54:1-10 Shout for joy, you barren women who bore no children! Break into cries of joy and gladness, you who were never in labour! For the sons of the forsaken one are more in number than the sons of the wedded wife, says the Lord. Widen the space of your tent, stretch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd Week of Advent, Wednesday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/14/3rd-week-advent-wednesdays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Isaiah 45:6-8, 18, 21-25 Apart from me, all is nothing. I am the Lord, unrivalled, I form the light and create the dark. I make good fortune and create calamity, it is I, the Lord, who do all this. Send victory like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain it down. Let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd Week of Advent, Tuesday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/13/3rd-week-advent-tuesdays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13 Trouble is coming to the rebellious, the defiled, the tyrannical city! She would never listen to the call, would never learn the lesson; she has never trusted in the Lord, never drawn near to her God. Yes, I will then give the peoples lips that are clean, so that all may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/12/good-links-46/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Tim Challies &#8211; Soft, Effeminate Christianity Protect the Pope &#8211; UK Equalities Commission condemns National Secular Society’s ‘thoroughly bonkers’ misuse of Human Rights Act A Reluctant Sinner &#8211; Joseph of Nazareth on Twitter &#8211; He only started tweeting ten days ago but already has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd Week of Advent, Monday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/12/3rd-week-advent-mondays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Reading Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17 Raising his eyes Balaam saw Israel, encamped by tribes; the spirit of God came on him and he declaimed his poem. He said: ‘The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man with far-seeing eyes, the oracle of one who hears the word of God. He sees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dusty Springfield &#8211; Son of a preacher man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the random music video I warned you of earlier:]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before going to St Augustine’s my belief in God – my faith, for want of a better word – had been a dry and tentative thing, an intellectual and rather provisional conclusion, based on careful reasoning and a study of the evidence. I would never have said that I knew the Christian doctrines to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yay it&#8217;s Gaudete Sunday &#8211; Crack open the beer and Doritos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking: How can it be Gaudete Sunday on a Saturday evening? Well, I have it on the highest and most impeccable authority (Digital Nun) that: Gaudete Sunday begins with first Vespers, so no problem about your beer this evening. Catholicism has its points (pints even). And so one quick Vespers with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Week of Advent, Saturday&#8217;s readings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10th December First Reading Ecclesiasticus 48:1-4.9-12 The prophet Elijah arose like a fire, his word flaring like a torch. It was he who brought famine on the people, and who decimated them in his zeal. By the word of the Lord, he shut up the heavens, he also, three times, brought down fire. How glorious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sickening waves of doubt</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/08/sickening-waves-doubt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m blogging this for a few reasons. Firstly as a record for myself, secondly for therapeutic reasons and thirdly for anyone else that may have experienced the same. Just very recently (last few days) I have been assailed by the nauseous feeling that my faith is rubbish and based on fantasy. Believe me when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O, Virgin by whose blessing, all nature is blessed!</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/08/virgin-blessing-nature-blessed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sermon from the St Anselm  Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth and rivers, day and night – everything that is subject to the power or use of man – rejoice that through you they are in some sense restored to their lost beauty and are endowed with inexpressible new grace. All creatures were dead, as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Week of Advent, Thursday&#8217;s Readings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; First Reading  Genesis 3:9-15,20 &#160; After Adam had eaten of the tree the Lord God called to him. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Ambrose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we celebrate St Ambrose Bishop and Doctor (Teacher) of the Church. &#160; &#160; A letter from St Ambrose (339-347AD) &#160; You win the people over with the grace of your words &#160; The Church of the Lord is built upon the rock of the apostles among so many dangers in the world; it therefore remains unmoved. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd week of Advent, Wednesday&#8217;s Readings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; First Reading Isaiah 40:25-31 ‘To whom could you liken me and who could be my equal?’ says the Holy One. Lift your eyes and look. Who made these stars if not he who drills them like an army, calling each one by name? So mighty is his power, so great his strength, that not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Week of Advent, Tuesday&#8217;s Readings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/06/2nd-week-advent-tuesdays-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we continue to prepare here&#8217;s the link back to the Jesuit pointers for prayer reading. &#160; First Reading Isaiah 40:1-11 ‘Console my people, console them’ says your God. ‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her that her time of service is ended, that her sin is atoned for, that she has received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/05/good-links-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Thirsty Gargoyle: L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier: Third Thoughts on Redefining Marriage Daydreamer: The truth about depression Church Mag: The 5 best toys of all time Countercultural Father: Mass on Saturday Evening or Sunday Morning? The Atlantic: Is Iran already under attack? BioLogos: The miracle of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Week of Advent, Monday, Readings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we head on into the week, and preparing to make straight our paths, take a few moments of quiet to help sanctify the day and ourselves with the Jesuit method of prayer reading of Scripture. First Reading Isaiah 35:1-10 Let the wilderness and the dry-lands exult, let the wasteland rejoice and bloom, let it bring forth flowers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Sunday of Advent, a call to preparation and the Wilderness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing in prayerful reading of Scripture, we move into the 2nd Sunday, it is still a time of waiting and wonder, but now we hear the call to the Wilderness, to prepare and make straight our paths, so we may see the saving presence of God. Having visited the Sahara Desert, apart from the vast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripture Readings, Saturday, 1st Week of Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I thought along with using the Jesuit method for praying Scripture, I would post a brief commentary for the Gospel, from Ireland&#8217;s Dominicans Goodnews.ie  as it was challenging yet edifying. &#160; First Reading Isaiah 30: 19-21, 23-26 Thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:   People of Zion, you will live in Jerusalem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripture Reading, Friday, 1st Week of Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advent is not about our activity and our own doings, it is simply a time of our God&#8217;s all powerful actions, His doings, and our not doing anything, except to wait.  As we continue in our passivity, cultivating patience as we wait on the Lord.  Let&#8217;s take a few moments to dwell on His actions, perhaps using the Jesuit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripture Readings for Thursday, 1st Week of Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come ponder with the Jesuit method of prayerful reading, listening to the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!   Pax Christi+ &#160; First Reading  Isaiah 26:1-6 That day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; to guard us he has set wall and rampart about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Scripture for Wednesday, 1st Week of Advent</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/30/sacred-scripture-wednesday-1st-week-advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tarry with our Lord a while, using the distinctive Jesuit method of prayerful reading.  Pax Christi+ &#160; First Reading Romans 10:9-18 If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By believing from the heart you are made righteous; by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Scripture for Tuesday, 1st week of Advent</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/29/sacred-scripture-tuesday-1st-week-advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please take a few moments of quiet and prayerful pondering on Scripture using the distinctive Jesuit method of prayerful reading.  Pax Christi+ &#160; First Reading Isaiah 11:1-10 A shoot springs from the stock of Jesse, a scion thrusts from his roots: on him the spirit of the Lord rests, a spirit of wisdom and insight, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent, a time of waiting, preparation and renewal; Sacred Scripture for Monday, 1st week of Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s blogpost goes a little way in explaining. Please take a few moments of quiet and prayerful pondering on Scripture using the distinctive Jesuit method of prayerful reading.  Pax Christi+ &#160; The Presence of God As I sit here, God is here. Around me, in my sensations, in my thoughts and deep within me. I pause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent, a time of waiting, preparation and renewal</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/27/daily-readings-advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Wifey Today as well as being the First Sunday of Advent, it is also the start of the our new liturgical year.  Over the next few weeks with all the Christmas preparations, it can be a somewhat hectic time for most of us. During this period we are called to wait for Lord, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/26/advent-wreath-wifey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is written by Wifey for the benefit of folk like me that are endeavouring to learn and engage with the Catholic Advent traditions: In our home the start of Advent is an exciting time, as I decorate the hall and the kitchen, in greenery, pine cones, red berries and bows, even my beloved Icons are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is belief or non-belief a choice?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/23/belief-nonbelief-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: This is one of those ambiguous posts within which I ramble a bit, raise questions and ultimately answer nothing. I&#8217;m a great admirer of Normblog who happens to be an atheist and is always eminently interesting, thoughtful and intelligent. I was intrigued to read his post today entitled: &#8216;Belief and Choice&#8216;, in which he [...]]]></description>
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