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 MONDAY, 4th WEEK OT – February 4, 2019 [Heb 11:32-40 ;  Mc 5:1-20]  In today’s First Reading the author of the Letter to the Hebrews refers to the great Old Testament hero’s and their mighty deeds. However, one sentence is eye-catching: ‘Out of weakness they were made powerful’. This is a crucial paradox, both in the Gospel and in […]

Here we are already at the Fifth Sunday of Lent.  And today’s Gospel reading for Mass is the most striking story of the woman caught in adultery.  If we stand at Jesus’ side, if we feel into how he meets this situation, a situation in which he is being put to the test by the […]

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