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A Moment To Pause: Saturday February 7th 2026 #podcast #reflection #gospel
Good morning and thank you for joining our Oblate short time to pause, reflect and pray together on Saturday February 7th 2026. Thanks to Caroline Shevelan for today's reflection.
Today’s Gospel is another challenging one. It is a passage that has been used and misused over the generations to control, to frighten, to justify cruel judgement and punishment.
A brief google search of homilies on this passage describe it variously as the hard truth of the Gospel, the war on sin and other alarming and doom laden titles which I had thought consigned to history.
How then do I respond to these…
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