There are those who hear the Word of God and those who do not. Divine encounter is offered to us all – but we must choose to take part in it.
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As we are beginning to wake up to the grave damage we have wreaked on the planet - here is a saving perspective and motive to act.
In these days of climate emergency, species extinction and habitat destruction, it is salutary to find Paul’s vision is not just global but galactic!
The call to mission has to be the permanent result and aim of becoming a synodal Church.
Paul stands as a colossus in the development of human spirituality.