Lent 2017: Week 1
Week 1: Stillness exercise
February 28, 2017
Stand on one leg and extend your left arm upwards in the shape of the spout of a teapot. Say to yourself out loud three times, first in Hebrew, then...
Read moreWeek 1: Gospel reading
February 28, 2017
Matthew 13 (New International Version) The Parable of the Sower That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered around him...
Read moreWeek 1: Prey
February 28, 2017
I grew up between two homes and two parishes. My parents lived in Dublin and my godparents in Wicklow. So, over the years, I would have heard this parable in...
Read moreWeek 1: Pray
February 28, 2017
Broadcasting, which has been my job of work in a radio station for the past thirty years, understands itself, almost literally, as a form of sowing. In the last little...
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