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ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO AND FEAR

A HOMILY PREACHED IN WORTH ABBEY CHURCH 25 th JUNE 2017 “ Do not be afraid ”, says Jesus to his disciples in Mathew’s Gospel Ch 10,26. You know, I really don’t think he meant them to try to eliminate or ignore the fear that would come into their lives. You can’t just wave it away, you can’t do that; and after all, Jeremiah lived with it: some of his enemies threw him into an abandoned well hoping that he would starve to death in the mud. Fortunately others came and rescued him. And Jesus in Gethsemane lived with it as he fulfilled his Father’s will for our salvation. No, the context of this teaching seems to say that we must not allow our fears or apprehensions to dictate to us. Three years ago on 23 rd May Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was beatified. His story is human and moving. He had been made a rural bishop, later being promoted to Archbishop in the metropolis at a time when conservative elements in Rome were making episcopal appointments; he was regarded as a ‘safe con...
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100 YEARS OF FATIMA

100 YEARS OF FATIMA : A homily in Worth Abbey church 13.5.17 This year the Church is celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the appearances of Our Lady at Fatima to the Portuguese peasant children, Lúcia Santos and Jacinta and Francisco Marto, her little cousins. These events, occurring in 1917, were much more than devotional events narrowly conceived:  they carried messages of  great import for us, the Church on earth. Many, out of genuinely innocent ignorance have misinterpreted Fatima. Some say ·          Our Lady wants us to pray the rosary daily, full stop. ·          Some have read into it a call to ecclesiastical and theological  conservatism, a return to pre-Vatican II days of an individualist devotional spirituality. ·          Others have found in it a political message such as, ‘down with Communism’ (as in the former Soviet Union...
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