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Sunday 5th May 2024 – Sixth Sunday of Easter
REFLECTION: Acts 10. The Holy Spirit comes to the Gentiles. When we get to heaven, I think we might be surprised by some of the people we...
St James Dandenong
May 3, 20244 min read
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Sunday 10th December 2023 – Second Sunday of Advent
REFLECTION: Isaiah 40:1-11 “Proclaim the Good News!” What would be the best news you have ever received in your life? How did it make you...
St James Dandenong
Dec 12, 20233 min read
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Sunday 24th September 2023 – Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Philippians 1:1-30 “Proclaim the Gospel” Our Parish Mission Statement is “to know Christ, to Serve Christ, to Proclaim...
St James Dandenong
Sep 23, 20233 min read
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Sunday 17th September 2023 – Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: It is easy to be guilty of paying lip service to forgiveness. It is easy to say “I forgive you.” when, in actual fact, you...
St James Dandenong
Sep 16, 20233 min read
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Sunday 10th September 2023 – Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Caring for God's people - Matthew 18:10-20 Do you care for God’s people? Do you care for your brothers and sisters in Christ?...
St James Dandenong
Sep 14, 20233 min read
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Sunday 3rd September 2023 – Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: 24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me....
St James Dandenong
Aug 31, 20232 min read
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Sunday 27th August 2023 – Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Who is Jesus for you? Maybe you believe that Jesus never existed – a fact that has never been questioned by any ancient...
St James Dandenong
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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Sunday 20th August 2023 – Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Today is Mission Sunday where we place emphasis upon task of making disciples of Jesus, proclaiming the gospel to the...
St James Dandenong
Aug 18, 20232 min read
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Sunday 13th August 2023 – Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: In our reading from Romans today we have one of the earliest Credal statements of the Christian, long before the great creeds...
St James Dandenong
Aug 13, 20232 min read
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Sunday 6th August 2023 – Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: What qualifies us to be part of God’s family, citizens of God’s kingdom? In this passage of Romans 9, Paul takes up this...
St James Dandenong
Aug 5, 20232 min read
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Sunday 30th July 2023 – Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Have you ever felt in your life of faith that it is like God is a million miles away, that the circumstances of life have so...
St James Dandenong
Jul 28, 20231 min read
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Sunday 23rd July 2023 – Eighth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: The story of patron saint, James the son of Zebedee, is short but compelling. It is the story of a man plucked from everyday...
St James Dandenong
Jul 28, 20231 min read
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Sunday 16th July 2023 – Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: No condemnation! (Romans 8:1-4) I don’t know if you’ve noticed but, just like in chapter 5, our passage today begins with a...
St James Dandenong
Jul 15, 20232 min read
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Sunday 9th July 2023 – Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” Says the Apostle Paul. And...
St James Dandenong
Jul 8, 20233 min read
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Sunday 2nd July 2023 – Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION In Paul’s discussion concerning sin, which began not just in the passage we looked at last week but much even as early as...
St James Dandenong
Jun 30, 20232 min read
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Sunday 25th June 2023 – Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION Romans 6:1-11 continues the very reasoned and logical teaching Paul is giving around the nature of our salvation. His concern...
St James Dandenong
Jun 23, 20232 min read
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Sunday 18th June 2023 – Third Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION Imagine that you need a well-deserved holiday and a friend of yours invites you to Paradise Island resort in the Maldives in...
St James Dandenong
Jun 17, 20232 min read
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Sunday 11th June 2023 – Second Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: 2 Corinthians 4:13 – 5:5 “A Certain Hope in Uncertain Times” Many of us have been living some of the most uncertain days of...
St James Dandenong
Jun 9, 20232 min read
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Sunday 4th June 2023 – Trinity Sunday
REFLECTION: In our Gospel reading today, there’s a grammatical detail pointing to the fact that the God of the Bible is one in three...
St James Dandenong
Jun 2, 20232 min read
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Sunday 28th May 2023 – Day of Pentecost
REFLECTION: Acts 2:1-21 - The coming of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost is the birthday of the church; a wonderful celebration of God’s...
St James Dandenong
May 27, 20232 min read
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