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Sunday Gospel
The Sunday Gospel explained, summarised and made applicable in 200 Words.


Cucumbers
200 words: Immersed into change From a philosopher, theologian and rhetorician, known as the Trinitarian Theologian: Christ is bathed in light. Let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptised. Let us also go down with him and rise with him (St. Gregory Nazianzen (329-390)). Furthermore, Jesus commissions us: Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And teach them to observe all that I have command
Tongues Fire
Jan 71 min read


Deliberately Redundant
200 words: Repetition as Revelation The astrologers come from the East to Jerusalem, led by the ‘star.’ They depart from King Herod: There in front of them was the star they had seen rising. It went forward and halted over the place where the child was (Matthew 2). What is the star? A cosmic event? The conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn on February 20, 6 BC? The 2007 proposal of Grant Matthews, Astrophysicist at Notre Dame University, is possible. A symbol perhaps? That
Tongues Fire
Jan 21 min read
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