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.
St George: Loyalty to Christ
“…the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart” (NRSV, 1 Samuel 16:7)
St George, the Patron Saint of England, was a brilliant young officer in the Roman army whose ability had brought him to the attention of his Emperor and Commander-in-chief, Diocletian. It was this savage tyrant who launched the most violent and sustained persecution which the Church endured in the first centuries of its existence.
Saints H - M
This is a new section in the Holy Faith website. We begin with St James, Apostle and Martyr. More is gradually being 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.
James, Apostle
St James, like his brother John, was a fisherman. He was the first of the Apostles to be martyred, being beheaded in 44 AD in Jerusalem. (1) His feast day is 25 July. The liturgical colour is red, symbolising the blood of a martyr.