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Homilies offered by Bishop William Crean
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Bishop William Crean
Marian Mystery
Marian Mystery
Homily given at the June convention of the Fatima Prayer Centre in Büren.
Gen 3.9-20: Wo bist du?
Joh 19.25-27: Siehe, deine Mutter!
Unsere Lesung aus dem Buch Genesis beschreibt die Konsequenz des Sündenfalles. Man könnte meinen, eine solche Geschichte hätte unserer Zeit Read More
Accepting Mercy How striking is this panel from a door in the Jesuit church in Büren, artwork from the mid-eighteenth century. The parable of the Prodigal Son is presented, quite as in the sermons of St Bernard, as a universal parable of Read More
Setting out to Sea I read Adam Nicholson’s wonderful book on Homer years ago, in Cameroon. Recently I came upon this essay, ‘Sailing with the Greeks’, in The Plough. He remarks how Western thought has long unfolded in a terranian framework. It has been Read More
Desert Fathers 24
Desert Fathers 24
Abba Antony said: I think the body possesses a physical movement that is mixed up with it, though it does not work except with the consent of the soul. There is another [kind of] movement which comes from nurturing and Read More
Speech One doesn’t expect an essay on Pentecost in a secular broadsheet, but that is what Carsten Knop, an editor of the FAZ, provided yesterday in a beautiful, wistful piece: ‘[Those present at Pentecost] recognise the power of human words. They Read More