Talk given 12 July 2026 · Fr Antony Parankimalil VC
Published 22 July 2026
Holy Family Church, Doveton
God does not speak first to the person who is absent, but to the person who is present. Before asking Him to change others, we must allow His Word to sanctify our own hearts and prepare the way for His wonders.
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Talk given 11 July 2026 · Fr Joby George VC
Published 25 July 2026
Holy Family Parish, Doveton
Day Retreat - Session Four
Fr Joby recalls how Jeremiah 1:9 sustained him when he felt unprepared to preach and how 1 John 3:8-9 helped him confront a persistent spiritual weakness. Scripture becomes testimony when it is prayed faithfully in the place of temptation and hardship.
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Talk given 11 July 2026 · Fr Antony Parankimalil VC
Published 25 July 2026
Holy Family Parish, Doveton
Day Retreat - Session Three
Suffering can make us believe that God is against us, especially when other people interpret our trials as punishment. Fr Antony reflects on trust, spiritual discipline and the hidden work of grace through stories of family pain, public judgement, injustice and faithful surrender.
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Talk given 11 July 2026 · Fr Joby George VC
Published 25 July 2026
Holy Family Parish, Doveton
Day Retreat - Session Two
A person may believe that God can act yet struggle to believe He will act personally. Fr Joby reflects on Jairus, delayed prayer, surrendering our timelines and preferences, and the way living faith forms holy choices.
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Talk given 11 July 2026 · Fr Antony Parankimalil VC
Published 25 July 2026
Holy Family Parish, Doveton
Day Retreat - Session One
A pure heart does not give up on those who seem lost. Fr Antony reflects on God's faithful love, family conversion, intercession and reconciliation.
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Talk given 7 July 2026 · Fr Antony Parankimalil VC
Published 22 July 2026
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Bayswater
Marriage is a sacred vocation that needs more than affection and human effort. Fr Antony reflects on praying a blessing over one's spouse, guarding the family as a foundation, seeking personal conversion and inviting the Holy Spirit to sustain what human strength cannot hold together.
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Talk given 5 July 2026 · Fr Antony Parankimalil VC
Published 22 July 2026
Holy Family Church, Doveton
We cannot overcome sin by talent or moral effort alone; everything is grace. Fr Antony reflects on the concrete works through which grace reshapes a life: caring for parents, bringing souls back to God, worshipping, helping the poor, praying for the departed and making almsgiving a way of life.
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Talk given 3 July 2026 · Fr Antony Parankimalil VC
Published 22 July 2026
Holy Family Church, Doveton
Suffering is not proof that God has abandoned a person or family. Through the testimony of his sister's death and his mission in Rwanda, Fr Antony reflects on how Christ can turn tragedy into commissioning, family pain into intercession and a wounded past into a new beginning.
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Talk given 1 July 2026 · Fr Antony Parankimalil VC
Published 22 July 2026
Holy Family Church, Doveton
No Christian is immune from temptation or spiritual attack, but human weakness does not cancel the faithfulness of God. Fr Antony reflects on Saint Peter's fall and restoration, the spiritual protection of marriage and family, and the call to imitate Christ's self-giving love.
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