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Phil
Jul 29, 20233 min read
TIME.....
Time is our most precious commodity. Our clocks run from birth to death, during times of joy and sorrow, work and play: business and...
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Phil
Jun 11, 20234 min read
BROKEN-HEARTED GOD
Last Sunday, Trinity Sunday, at Holy Trinity Winchester, we looked in detail at the world-famous Trinity icon, written by Andrei Rublev,...
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Phil
Jun 4, 20234 min read
ICONIC
“GOD’S SELFIE” is how someone described Andrei Rublev’s “Trinity”. It’s one of the most-viewed icons, with a Trinitarian interpretation...
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Phil
May 31, 20232 min read
THAT VISIT
TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE VISITATION OF MARY TO ELIZABETH MAGNIFICAT 1 Our souls magnify the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our...
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Phil
May 26, 20233 min read
PHILIP NERI:MY SAINT
If I had to choose one saint to pray for me, to look out for me, and to help me not to take myself too seriously, who showed the humorous...
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Phil
May 18, 20233 min read
WAIFS & STRAYS
Back in the Dark Ages, in my home Church were some little purple Lent boxes with a slot for money, inviting donations for “The Church of...
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Phil
May 13, 20232 min read
May 13, 1917
May 13th, 1917. It was a quiet, ordinary day for three ordinary shepherd children in a quiet, ordinary, insignificant village in rural...
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Phil
Apr 5, 20232 min read
PETER - "ROCKY"?
A short reflection, as from Peter's perspective on the night Jesus was betrayed by Judas and denied by Peter. Peter: Last night, it...
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Phil
Mar 25, 20234 min read
MARY OF NAZARETH
Mary of Nazareth, daughter of Joachim and Anna; her name was common enough, that other women of the same name in the gospels had to be...
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Phil
Mar 24, 20232 min read
ST OSCAR ROMERO
Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez was born in a small village in El Salvador in 1917. Ordained priest, he was known as a quiet and...
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Phil
Mar 16, 20234 min read
Rabbi Jesus
The Sculptor, Jacob Epstein, was commissioned in 1957 to create a statue of St. Michael the Archangel for the newly rebuilt Coventry...
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Phil
Mar 9, 20233 min read
THE JEWISH JESUS
JESUS WAS RAISED A JEW BY DEVOUT JEWISH PARENTS He was circumcised according to the Law (The Torah) on the eighth day after his birth...
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Phil
Mar 2, 20232 min read
THE JEWISH JESUS
JESUS, THE RADICAL RABBI FROM NAZARETH So Jesus wasn’t white, blond, and blue-eyed then!. But surely he looked like Robert Powell’s...
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Phil
Feb 25, 20232 min read
WILDERNESS
Forty days alone, a wilderness of thoughts, tempting and inviting thoughts, which could so easily have distracted you from your task,...
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Phil
Feb 16, 20232 min read
WHO THE DEVIL IS IT?
For those of you who like statistics, Satan appears 27 times in nine Old Testament books. Who is Satan? The theologian N. T. Wright...
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Phil
Feb 1, 20233 min read
FIRED WITH ENTHUSIASM
At one time it was accepted that, if you were asked to give a job reference for someone, only the interviewing panel would read what you...
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Phil
Jan 20, 20233 min read
SOSTHENES-WHO?
“I, Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle, together with brother Sosthenes, send greetings to the church of God in Corinth.” Last...
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Phil
Jan 6, 20232 min read
The Door of The Year
Unable to have any children, Frances Chesterton, the wife of G.K. Chesterton, was deeply moved by the image of the Nativity, and wrote...
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Phil
Dec 12, 20221 min read
Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe
I have a particular devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, I hope it's not just because she is portrayed more-garishly than other...
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Phil
Dec 6, 20222 min read
I BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS
St Nicholas was a real person, born to a wealthy family in Lycia, Asia Minor (now Turkey) sometime between 270 and 280 AD. Today in some...
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