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You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8:32 If freedom merely consists in choice, then surely being a fresher at uni is the freest we’ll ever be. There can’t be many other situations in which so many different opportunities are available in one go. […]

Finding freedom as a fresher

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‘I no longer call you servants…but friends’ John 15:15 This line, I think, sums up how my faith has changed while at Oxford and how I feel God in my life. Before university, God was very much in the background; church was an obligation, an unalterable fact, but there was […]

I no longer call you servants, but friends

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He shall sit alone and he shall be silent, because he has taken the yoke upon himself. Lamentations 3:28                       Discernment weighs heavily on many Catholic students, attempting to figure out how we’re called to spend the next sixty or […]

He shall sit alone and be silent

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But He, passing through the midst of them, went His way. Luke 4:30 St. Luke, having just narrated that the Lord had been taken by force, ‘thrust out of the city’, and brought by a crowd angry to the point of murder, then goes on to make the bizarre statement […]

Passing through the midst of them

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For where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there among them. Matthew 18:20 The importance of friendships rooted in Christ and community-building has been on my mind a lot during the last year. I remained in Oxford beginning a new course while most of my closest friends […]

There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend

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I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask Him in my name.  I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. John 15:16-17 I suppose one of the central questions, with which […]

I appointed you to go and bear fruit

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Diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis, propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum. Grace is poured out upon thy lips, wherefore God hath blessed thee eternally. Psalm 45:2 In a well-known prayer, Blessed John Henry Newman asks, ‘Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your fragrance wherever I go…shine through me, and […]

Diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis

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Simply proclaim the Lord Christ holy in your hearts, and always have your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope that you have. (1 Peter 3:15) The latter half of this verse has been stuck in my head for some months now, and looking it […]

The hope that you have

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Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (Hebrews 10:22) I grew up in a Catholic family, in a country where most people are Catholic. My route as a Catholic […]

With a sincere heart

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Jesus again straightened up and said, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she replied. “Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go away, and from this moment, sin no more.” (John 8:10-11) I was a pretty blessed child growing up: my family loved me, […]

Neither do I condemn you

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