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A Moment To Pause: Saturday 29th August 2026 🙏
A very good morning to you. We join Kirk Jacob in London for this week's podcast and short time of daily prayer together.
Today is Saturday, the 29th August and it’s the feast to commemorate the beheading of St. John the Baptist.
This morning’s Oblate podcast is on the Scripture text of St. Mark chapter 6: verses17-29.
We begin: In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
In today’s Gospel, we notice a lot of political power dynamics. King Herod is torn by his internal conflict as he forcefully takes his brother Philip’s wife Herodias to be his own and John the…
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