Celebrating Sundays, Reflections from the Early Church on the Sunday Gospels, by Stephen Holmes Candle Colour_Red & White Text Size: 6

Text Size: 6

Mary appears only in a few accounts and speaks on limited occasions

A Poem a Day for Advent

Don’t stop them

it traces how early Christianity developed into Catholicism and has been described as doing for theology what Darwin did for biology

Celebrating Sundays, Reflections from the Early Church on the Sunday Gospels, by Stephen Holmes Candle Colour_Red & White Text Size: 6Celebrating Sundays provides readings from the Christian tradition that offer commentary on every Sunday Gospel reading in the three year lectionary. In the middle of the sixth century, St Benedict wrote 'Let the inspired books of both the Old and the New Testaments be read at Vigils, as also commentaries on them by the most eminent orthodox and catholic fathers' (Rule of Benedict, IX) and this set the pattern for worship and preaching which prevails