Tag: baptism

Seven amazing truths about your baptism

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Seven amazing truths about your baptism

If you know these amazing seven truths about baptism, how could you not hope and pray that your non-Christian friends would come to know Christ and ask to be baptised? A homily by Fr Stephen […]

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The meaning of your baptism

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The meaning of your baptism

I’m late posting this homily (from the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord ten days ago), but it might still interest anyone who is baptised!

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Learning to speak God’s own language

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Learning to speak God’s own language

The Feast of the Baptism of Jesus is a great way to meditate on the mystery of the Incarnation. It can tell us a lot about what it means to be part of a new […]

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How to set the world on fire, despite your weaknesses, through the power of the Holy Spirit

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How to set the world on fire, despite your weaknesses, through the power of the Holy Spirit

The call to be a missionary disciple, to cast fire on the earth, is a call to heroism. The problem is that most of us are not heroes. So does that mean we have to […]

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Choosing life after not choosing death

Filed in Ethics by on February 28, 2014 1 Comment
Choosing life after not choosing death

There is a good article on Albert Camus over at the First Things website. Camus famously said that the fundamental question of our age was suicide. He thought that to live honestly, one had to […]

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“My wife and I are atheists, but our daughter wants to be baptised Catholic”

Filed in Family by on January 16, 2014 1 Comment
“My wife and I are atheists, but our daughter wants to be baptised Catholic”

More and more marriages these days are between people of different faiths. One of the big discussion points with such couples is how they will raise their children regarding questions of belief. Many say that […]

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