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Thinking Faith is the online journal of the Jesuits in Britain (Jesuits in Britain CIO), a registered charity in England & Wales (1207742) & Scotland (SC05349).
The sower who scatters seed amidst rocks, birds and thorns in today's gospel is not being wasteful: this is how the field is. But the sower also knows there are pockets of good soil and so is liberal in the sowing. thinkingfaith.org/articles/striv…

To what shall we compare the Kingdom of Jesus if not a seed? Pray with @prayasugo today: prayasyougo.org/prayer/good-so… #gospel
‘Woman, who are you looking for?’ ow.ly/NsQM50ADU5m #feast #MaryMagdalene #gospel
Pray with the experience of Mary Magdalene on her feast: soundcloud.com/pray-as-you-go…

If the Beloved Disciple was the first to believe, #MaryMagdalene is the first to proclaim the Risen Lord. thinkingfaith.org/articles/20080… #feast
Scholarship and learning have provided valuable riches for the faith. But the true disciple does not simply say, ‘I have studied Jesus,’ but like #MaryMagdalene, ‘I have seen the Lord.’ ow.ly/NsQM50ADU5m #feast
Today is the feast of Mary Magdalene. She does not recognise Jesus by sight but when he calls her name, fulfilling the prediction of the Good Shepherd that he would call by name the sheep that belong to him and they would follow him. thinkingfaith.org/articles/20080…

As part of a series on 'Women of the Passion', @prayasugo have this reflection on #MaryMagdalene: soundcloud.com/pray-as-you-go… #feast
Contemplate the experience of the first person to whom the risen Christ chose to appear, Mary Magdalene, whose feast we celebrate today: ow.ly/NsQM50ADU5m

To #MaryMagdalene, Jesus fulfils the promise in John’s Prologue: “All those who did accept him he empowered to become God’s children.” thinkingfaith.org/articles/20080… #feast
In this velvet darkness: thinkingfaith.org/articles/velve… #MaryMagdalene #feast
James Hanvey SJ was particularly captured by a statue of Mary Magdalene, whose feast is on 22 July, in an extraordinary exhibition of Spanish religious art from the seventeenth century: thinkingfaith.org/articles/20100…

Rob Marsh SJ gives us an imaginative take on #MaryMagdalene’s journey ahead of her feast tomorrow. thinkingfaith.org/articles/velve…
"In an imperceptible way, the relationship between #MaryMagdalene and the cross that she holds, itself already a symbolic representation of a real event, models our relationship with the very statute that we gaze upon." thinkingfaith.org/articles/20100…
‘All he’d said, wasted. All he’d done, a fraud. All he’d told me about myself, lies.’ But then… What might the days between the crucifixion and resurrection have been like for Mary Magdalene, whose feast we celebrate today? thinkingfaith.org/articles/velve…

What was it that led some people to believe that Jesus was #Elijah returned? thinkingfaith.org/articles/20100… #feast
"When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way. God is found in the gentle breeze perceived by Elijah", whose feast is today, said Pope Francis. thinkingfaith.org/articles/20130…

May we learn to treasure the wisdom of the past and its heroes, too. As we reflect on the mission of #Elijah, may we become agents of reconciliation not only between parents and children, but between all members of the human family. thinkingfaith.org/articles/adven… #feast
At the Transfiguration, Moses & #Elijah were confirming Jesus’s own conclusions about his future and were enlightening him on what was going to happen in Jerusalem, with its significance for him and for the people of Israel he was about to save. thinkingfaith.org/articles/20100…
The author of the book of Ecclesiasticus was proud to pass on the wisdom which his grandfather taught him. This included treasured reflections on the heroes of Israel’s history, and among these was the prophet Elijah, whose feast is 20 July. thinkingfaith.org/articles/adven…
