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		<title>A Sermon on Joy and Hope for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I bring you good news of great joy for all the people,” says the angel, “to you is born this day a saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord.” We gather here this morning in the knowledge that we are one of the first groups of millions of Christians who will come together today to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6241&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Priesthood at Fr Garry Kerr&#8217;s First Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions that has regularly haunted me since my arrival in the Diocese is the question that goes something like, “is there a place for God, for Christ and for the Church in Australian society at all anymore?” In various ways I suspect that many of us who have made a commitment to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6233&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Being Ready</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worked out this week, as I was reading and pondering the parable which we have just heard that I have been to over 200 weddings in the last 20 years.  I have been to a wedding in Oxford where the bride turned up over an hour late.  I have been to a wedding in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6216&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Blessing for the Feast of All Saints</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not know how many of you have a favourite saint, or a favourite story from the lives of the Saints.  I suspect that we might surprise ourselves if we spent time today, on this festival celebration of All Saints, sharing with each other the connections that we have experienced with the Saints during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6196&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Giving Ourselves Back to God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many people, probably including some of us (whether we like it or not) money is one of the high points of anxiety throughout our lives.  And just as it is for individuals and families, so too it can also be true for church communities, seeking to pay the bills and maintain the buildings which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6209&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Not Leaving Leadership to Chance</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/a-sermon-on-not-leaving-leadership-to-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been asked to be a ballerina. I have never been asked to attend time trials as a hopeful for the Olympic rowing team. I have a bad back and two left feet. No one has ever asked me to consider whether I might appear on one of those quiz shows which are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6132&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on the Coming of the Holy Spirit</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/a-sermon-on-the-coming-of-the-holy-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we hear the word ‘Pentecost’ most of us probably presume that it is a Christian word – a word that was developed by the first Christians to point to the coming of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church. We might be surprised to know that the word ‘Pentecost’ in its original [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6125&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/a-sermon-on-the-holy-spirit-in-the-life-of-the-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in my household has been overtaken by the birthdays over the last few days, and it isn’t over yet. Malachi celebrated his seventh birthday on Friday, and Isaac will celebrate his ninth birthday on Tuesday, and between them (with their two other younger brothers in full agreement) they have managed to hatch a plan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6136&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on the Hope of our Ascension with Christ</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/a-sermon-on-the-hope-of-our-ascension-with-christ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was business as usual for most of us today. There was no special holiday to celebrate this great Festival of the Ascension, no particular traditions, and family gatherings as there are for many of us at Christmas and Easter. Most of us were probably not particularly conscious of Christ’s ascension to heaven as we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6117&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Priesthood at Fr Chris Yates&#8217; First Mass</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/a-sermon-for-fr-chris-yates-first-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions that has regularly challenged me since my arrival in the Diocese is the question that goes something like, “is there a place for God, for Christ and for the Church in Australian society at all anymore?”   In various ways I suspect that many of us who have made a commitment to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6048&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on the Surprise of Easter</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/a-sermon-on-the-surprise-of-easter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christ is Risen!  Alleluia!  Christ is Risen Indeed!  Alleluia! A young man rose from poverty and obscurity, to a place where he was known throughout the land, to a place where he had prominence and influence.  Crowds of people gathered wherever he was. They were fascinated by the things that he said, fascinated by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=6031&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Receiving Sight and Sharing Light</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/a-sermon-on-receiving-sight-and-sharing-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had one of those experiences when because of something that someone has said or done, or because of something that you have read or experienced it feels like the light bulb has suddenly been turned on?  One of the great joys of having a household of young children (as it is for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=5719&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Families on the Day of the Annual General Meeting</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/a-sermon-on-families-on-the-day-of-the-annual-general-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not able to be all of the things that my sons want me to be.  It is a good job that I know that, and that I am honest and realistic about that with myself and with them. On Friday we spent the day at the Newcastle Show just down the road from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=5679&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon at the Start of the Season of Lent</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/a-sermon-at-the-start-of-the-season-of-lent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world of many questions.  Some of those questions have one answer; some of those questions have many different answers depending upon who you ask; and some of those questions seem to have no answers at all. In the Diocesan Office where I am based just like (I am sure) in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=2302&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Living Life to the Full</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/a-sermon-on-living-life-to-the-full/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kinds of images were conjured up in your mind by the word ‘hell’ when you heard it in the Gospel reading a few moments ago? I suspect that if we were to spend some time talking about it honestly as a community this morning, we would discover that our imaginations are limited, or perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=2282&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Being the Light of the World</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/a-sermon-on-being-the-light-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/?p=2158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not know if any of you have heard of the Amish.  A few years ago I was fortunate enough, during a visit to New York, to visit an Amish community for the first time on their farms in Pennsylvania. The Amish arrived in America after migrating from Europe in the Eighteenth Century, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=2158&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Following</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/a-sermon-on-following-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/?p=1674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[‘Come,’ is an important word in our family, we have been using it now for a number of years.  When we hear the fridge door opening, and we deduce that Nahum (who is 3), quickly followed by his older brothers Joshua, Malachi and Isaac, are on the next stage of their never-ending search for chocolate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=1674&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon on Eucharistic Adoration and to Farewell Fr Julian Kent</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/1660/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have come here this afternoon to do a number of things together.  Firstly, and what is most important to Father Julian, we have come here with him, in his last act of public worship in the Diocese, to worship the God who created us, and loves us and preserves us. We are here too, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=1660&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon at the Font on the Baptism of Jesus</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/a-sermon-at-the-font/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are baptismal fonts of all shapes and sizes in the churches of our Diocese.  Some fonts are so small that they are barely practical for the baptism of a mouse, others are so large and imposing that family and friends have to guess what is going on inside them.  Some of our fonts have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=1617&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon for Christmas Morning</title>
		<link>http://davidbattrick.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/a-sermon-for-christmas-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dogs and I have a basic communication problem.  I say that the fault is with them, but I know deep down that it is really with me.  When I talk about their lack of obedience I am really talking about my inability to train them. When I say &#8216;come&#8217; they go.  When I say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbattrick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11343696&amp;post=1610&amp;subd=davidbattrick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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