28 Jul 2024
Protecting Our Unity
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For 28 July 2024, The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, based on Ephesians 4:1–6
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
29 July 2024 @ 1:35 am
So grateful, Fr. James for your powerful message and challenge to continue the struggle for Unity among all Christians and I would add among all God’s People and Creation.
Blessings on your continued preaching of the Word, to transform our lives in love and unity.
Sharing in the Eucharistic Banquet gives us the grace to live in unity with one another.
Brigid Cannon, OP
29 July 2024 @ 4:22 am
What a hope-filled Word that deeply touched me. Marie Gartner SMS
29 July 2024 @ 7:05 am
This will be food for prayer the entire week! Our unity in Christ must take precedence over our differences in politics, religious practices, and our cultural diversity! Thank you for breaking open the Word!
29 July 2024 @ 9:44 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you Father James for this message. I danced on hearing it!
I am a Presbyterian minister and have been asked to preach at ordinary services and share leadership of retreats.
I am overcome with gratitude each time, especially when I hear the amount of energy, the decision to ask me has taken the priest , sometimes the fear. One time I remember clearly was the priest who knelt at my feet and prayed in a very clear voice a prayer of Confession as he blessed me, but did not feed me’
Thank you f or your life giving word.
Bless you
Marg. From New Zealand