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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:34:38 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Pentecost Sunday Reflection with Fr Robin Gibbons: 19 May 2013</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 17:40:36 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[In one of his sermons Oscar Romero reminded people that God exists outside the Church, it may seem obvious to us, but a lot of people seem to think that the workings of the Holy Spirit are only to be found in liturgy, sacramental celebrations and the structures we call our church institutions. There is also a tendency to imagine that Pentecost is the first manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Both these misconceptions are to be firmly resisted. Looking back into the Hebrew Bible we see evidence of the Spirit of God at work powerfully, gently, lovingly as well as forcefully transforming]]></description>
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			<title>Sunday Reflection with Fr Robin Gibbons - 12 May 2013</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 14:27:16 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a nice phrase that somehow captures one part of the Ascension, that is ‘the leave taking of the Lord’, I know it comes from Eastern Christianity and I’ve heard it used to express the feast day itself, for me it conjures up several layers of meaning, leaving as in going away, departing; saying good bye but only for a while rather like the French say au revoir - until we meet again and taking leave in the sense of having a break!  Now I know that in some ways the theological implications of these three ways]]></description>
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			<title>Reflections on Feast of the Ascension</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 10:56:14 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Feast of the Ascension strikes many Christians as the poor relative of the two rather bigger celebrations which top and tail the long and joyful season of Eastertide: Easter itself, and Pentecost. But Damian Howard SJ, writing in Thinking Faith, ascribes to this feast the utmost significance. What are we to make of the story of Jesus being taken up into a cloud, an episode that not only sounds like mythology but also violates our modern sense of space?  In between our celebrations of the Lord’s Resurrection at Easter and of the gift of the Spirit to His disciples, the ‘birthday of the Church’]]></description>
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			<title>Sunday Reflection with Fr Robin Gibbons - 5 May 2013</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 06:03:04 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I wonder if we really understand just how momentous were the events mentioned in the reading from the book of Acts? To us, hundreds of years removed from the events the dietary laws of Judaism and the issue of circumcision seems very remote and even rather arcane. Has it anything to do with us we can ask? Well yes it has and it does! This meeting in Jerusalem was one of the most significant milestones in Christian history, it changed the course of the early community and put them on a path of freedom from servitude to the old law. It was also a huge pastoral response]]></description>
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			<title>Sunday Reflection with Fr Robin Gibbons - 28 April 2013</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:55:49 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[In a week in which two Orthodox bishops were kidnapped in Syria and the plight of people in the Middle East gets worse, our minds perhaps turn to our brothers and sisters in the faith who suffer so much. Perhaps we can hold fast to the words from the book of the Apocalypse and pray that they may come to fulfillment; ‘…his name is God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death…..the world of the past has gone.’ That hope is ever present in our faith journey, it is a constant refrain in the liturgies of both east and west]]></description>
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