Soul Food for the First Sunday of Lent, 18th February 2024
Within 10 meters of our garden hedge is the fence of the nature reserve (pictured) that makes up a large part of Hilton College’s estate. It is an ancient landscape of steep valleys, waterfalls, grassland and thick bush. Brother giraffe and Sister swallow are just some of our neighbours and – along with a myriad of other creatures – are co-guardians of this small corner of Africa.
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- February 6, 2024
Soul Food for the Sixth Sunday Ordinary Time, 11th February 2024
Have you ever thought of why you acted justly, with kindness or in a caring way with someone you knew or who was a stranger? One reason could be that it was for the sake of doing good. Created in the goodness and likeness of the Lord, we are united to him and are inclined to do good though sometimes we may find ourselves not moving in that particular direction...
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Soul Food for The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4th February 2024
Looking through the Gospel for today, the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, there is something worth observing from which we may draw a lesson that can be applied to ourselves. Looking through the Gospel for today, the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, there is something worth observing from which we may draw a lesson that can be applied to ourselves...
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- February 1, 2024
Soul Food for the Feast Day of the Presentation of the Lord, Friday 2nd February 2024
Easily the best biography in English of Francis Libermann, the Second Founder of the Spiritans, was written by the late Dutch Spiritan priest, Adrian van Kaam, in 1959. Significantly, the title, “A Light to the Gentiles”, is a direct quotation from the Gospel of Luke which is always proclaimed on 2nd February, the Feast Day of the Presentation of the Lord. 2nd February also happens to be the day on which Libermann, a convert from Judaism, died in 1852 aged only 49.
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- January 21, 2024