Salt and Light, Open and Closed

Do we think of prayer as time spent quietly with hands held together, asking, waiting and listening. Our readings today tell us it goes much further than that. In the part of the Sermon on the Mount we hear this weekend Jesus exhorts his disciples to put his teachings into…

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An Urgent Call

The four Gospels each tell us different things about how Jesus called his first Apostles. In both Mark and today’s passage from Matthew, Jesus simply turns up at the seashore and rather abruptly calls Peter, Andrew, James and John away from their fishing boats. And they immediately drop everything and…

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