Dependence on God whatever our status
Teaching by Frances Flatman on next weekend's Readings : Learning to become a Christian, a member of and ‘in’ Christ, is a lifelong work...
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Jul 1, 20235 min read
Imperfect heroes
The two great saints we celebrated on Thursday (St Peter and St Paul) are regarded as the giants of the Church, as heroes, because they...
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frmartinflatman
Jun 28, 20235 min read
Tiny acts redeem the world
Here is Frances Flatman's Reflection on next weekend's Bible Readings :- I think we are asked to explore precisely why in today’s...
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frmartinflatman
Jun 24, 20235 min read
Facing conflict supported by God
In the time before the Covid Lockdown, we Christians used to do a house to house collection for Christian Aid, trying to knock on every...
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frmartinflatman
Jun 21, 20235 min read
An act of scandalous subversion ?
Teaching by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings :- Despite the fact that we in the West dislike and resent the idea of suffering,...
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frmartinflatman
Jun 17, 20234 min read
Lifted up for service
All our Readings today remind us that as Christians we have been given a new status and so we need to live up to it. You can see and her...
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frmartinflatman
Jun 14, 20235 min read
A new status sets us free for service
Reflection by Frances Flatman on the Readings for next Sunday (11th in Ordinary Time) To whom and how does God reveal himself? Ancient...
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frmartinflatman
Jun 10, 20235 min read
Called the Medicine of Immortality
Why did Jesus choose to be especially present to us in bread? You can see and hear me give this Homily on Youtube....
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frmartinflatman
Jun 7, 20235 min read
Called to live out unity
Reflection by Frances Flatman on the Readings for Corpus Christi Most of us have been brought up with the understanding that we are...
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frmartinflatman
Jun 3, 20234 min read
To think of God is to be silenced
HOMILY for Trinity Sunday (June 4th) The Christian teaching that God is wholly other, and yet is also completely and fully present in the...
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frmartinflatman
May 31, 20235 min read
We are created for glory
A Reflection by Frances Flatman on the Readings for Trinity Sunday : Our Readings, especially due to their brevity, do not seem...
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frmartinflatman
May 27, 20235 min read
Do you help to make your Church a family?
In order to understand more fully what the Pentecost experience means, as told us in our 1st Reading, (Acts 2:1-11) we need remember who...
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frmartinflatman
May 24, 20234 min read
The promise of new communities
Reflection by Frances Flatman on the Readings for Pentecost We all think that we know these Readings for Pentecost so well that we do not...
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frmartinflatman
May 20, 20235 min read
God is glory
Have you ever thought what the word “Glory” means? You can see and hear me give this Homily on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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frmartinflatman
May 17, 20235 min read
Our witness to Christ is critical
Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings (21st May 2023) Most of us who have lost a loved person, either through death or...
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frmartinflatman
May 13, 20235 min read
God's presence diminishes fear
One of the things that saddens me most about us humans is that when we disagree with someone we begin to abuse them, to say unpleasant...
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frmartinflatman
May 10, 20235 min read
A tough person to follow
Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings :- What do we mean by ‘knowing’ someone or something? Most of the time I suspect...
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frmartinflatman
May 6, 20235 min read
How we can live in God
I was struck by the wise words of a character in a Film I watched the other day. He said : “Music is wonderful because you don’t have to...
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frmartinflatman
May 3, 20235 min read
How we live in God
Reflection by Frances Flatman on next Sunday's Readings :- Easter 5 The disciples, like us, had to learn to appreciate what their...
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frmartinflatman
Apr 29, 20235 min read
Jesus calls us out of the fold
I have been watching Series 3 of “The Chosen” recently, which is an imaginative dramatisation of the Gospels, and one which feels much...
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