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1/1 TODAY'S GOSPEL Mark 9:41-50 ‘It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell.’ REFLECTION Please, please, please don't take this passage literally! Jesus was not advocating self-mutilation!! What Jesus is talking about here is where we place our

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TODAY'S GOSPEL
Mark 9:41-50
‘It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell.’
REFLECTION
Please, please, please don't take this passage literally!
Jesus was not advocating self-mutilation!!
What Jesus is talking about here is where we place our
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2/1 faith in the jigsaw of our lives. It's a warning about the obstacles between us and God: the ones we build ourselves or the ones others put before us. Jesus is saying we need to do our best every day, try every day, to put aside the things that lead us astray, that direct our

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3/1 steps away from following the Lord. And this is serious stuff. Hence the seriousness of the language. We are approaching Lent and before it begins we need to ask ourselves: what are the obstacles in my discipleship, and how should they be removed? And know that Christ is

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4/1 always with us in our temptations: in our pain, in our guilt, in our sorrow. He has born it all for us and we cling on to Him.

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The third of our talks on the Nicaean Creed is this Sunday. This week we discuss 'We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ'. What does it mean to call Jesus, Lord? The talk will be shown live at arond 1215 on our Facebook page and on the parish YouTube channel.

The third of our talks on the Nicaean Creed is this Sunday. This week we discuss 'We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ'. What does it mean to call Jesus, Lord? The talk will be shown live at arond 1215 on our Facebook page and on the parish YouTube channel.
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If you'd like to read Fr Tim's reflections for the beginning of Holy Week, you can find them here frtimhandley.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/ref…