Short Talks
This section of the website comprises short stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals. More talks/sermons/homilies/articles will be added in due course.
The section of the website entitled The Christian Faith provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments.
Every Christian a missionary
“As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me’. And he got up and followed him” (NRSV, Matthew 9:9)
At the time when this momentous call came to Matthew, changing his whole life from that hour, Our Lord was already a widely discussed personality, not only round the Lake of Galilee but all over Northern Palestine and throughout the province of Syria.
Saints N - Z
This is a new section in the Holy Faith website. We start with St Peter. More content will gradually be added.
References
Biblical references are included in brackets in the text. Other references are listed at the end of each meditation. The Scripture quotations are mostly from The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The initials NRSV are used at the end of these quotations.
A few quotations are from the Jerusalem Bible, copyright © 1966 by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Company, Inc. The words Jerusalem Bible are used at the end of these quotations.
An occasional quotation is from The Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1965, 1966 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ‘Catholic edition RSV’ appears at the end of these quotations.
Peter, Apostle
St Peter, the leader of the Apostles, was martyred in Rome in around 64 AD. Originally he was called Simon, but Jesus gave him the Aramaic title Kepha, meaning ‘Rock’ (John 1:42). The Greek equivalent of this is ‘Peter’ in English. (1) According to tradition Peter asked to be crucified with his head downwards as he believed he was not worthy to suffer in the same way as his Lord and Master. (2)