April 2019
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Lent 5
John 8: 1-11 On Friday of this coming week we shall celebrate a Requiem Mass in St Mary’s church as we say goodbye to our dear friend Michael O’Flaherty. I have no doubt that the church will be full to overflowing and I also know that although it’s the fifth Friday in Lent, there will…
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The Prodigal Son
Luke 15: 11-32 . In Israel, 2000 years ago, it would have been unheard of for a son to have asked his father for his share of any eventual inheritance. To do that was the equivalent of saying that you wished your father was dead. Also, for the father to have given his son what…