Lent talks

Prefer Nothing Whatever to Christ: Wisdom from Christian Monasticism on living the baptised life

Week 1: The Desert Fathers and Eschatological Energy

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Week 2: The Rule of st benedict and the freedom of the common life

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Week 3: st Teresa of Avila and the call to contemplative prayer

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Past talk (2025): Pillars of the Church: the Catholicity of Anglicanism.

Week 1: The Catholicity of Anglicanism

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Week 2: the Scriptures and the Creeds

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Week 3: the Sacraments

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Week 4: the Apostolic Succession of Bishops

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Past talk (2023): The Eucharist Makes the Church

week 1: scripture and the canon of the new testament

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week 2: the eucharist at the heart of christian life

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week 3: why is the eucharist essential to the christian life?

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week 4: the shape and purpose of the eucharist

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