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Our Unique and Transforming Call and Vocation

Anita Mathias — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:07:45 +0000

We read in the Gospel of Matthew, that as Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon and Andrew, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him. […]

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When You Think it’s All Over, And That End is a New Beginning

Anita Mathias — Mon, 04 May 2015 13:26:29 +0000

So John, beautiful, sensitive evangelist, is exiled to Patmos, a Roman penal colony, by the Emperor Diocletian. It’s all over for him. He who had been one of the three with Jesus at every climactic moment of his ministry; who had leaned on Jesus at the Last Supper feeling the physical and verbal beat of […]

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What Do You Really Want? (John 1:37)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:07:00 +0000

Image Credit What do you want? John 1:37 And no-nonsense, getting down to business, the first thing you ask us, in this most beautiful of books. is a question. What do you want? I am today ashamed of the smallness of my desire. But I must be honest about it. Here it is. I […]

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Do not labour for food which perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life. John 6.27.

Anita Mathias — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:53:00 +0000

Franz Snyders Do not labour for food which perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life. Not all of us have choices about what labour we undertake. Many of us have our choices cut out for us by long years of training and experience. But insofar as one does have a choice, here’s a […]

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In Him was life, and that life was the light of men

Anita Mathias — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:29:00 +0000

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men In him was LIFE. Another of the great words, the great themes of this Gospel. LIFE for our lifelessness, our hopelessness, our inner deadness . LIFE, the great antidote for the depression that is inevitable when we lose sight of the source of […]

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