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  1. Father Colin Patey's avatar Father Colin Patey says:
    09/10/2013 at 4:35 pm

    Just to assure you of my prayers as you ordained to the priesthood. You may remember me. I was a curate at St Paul’s, Weymouth, 78-81.

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  2. jonathancpwalsh's avatar jonathancpwalsh says:
    07/09/2025 at 3:34 pm

    Father Scott.. Thank you for your wonderful thoughtful and amusing sermon today – Sept 7th 2025).. I always enjoy listening to you.. You challenge and provoke us – and yet you always talk with compassion and with great empathy.. Today was that difficult subject in which Jesus tells his disciples that – in order to follow Him – we must hate our parents; our wife and children.. Yoy tried to explain this difficult passage – but you never actually addressed the elephant in the room.. the word “hate”.. I simply do not understand – and I do not believe – that we have to hate our family in order to follow Jesus.. It goes against everything we have been taught.. Can you try and explain this to me?? Thanks. Jonathan

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    • Scott Anderson's avatar Scott Anderson says:
      15/10/2025 at 9:11 am

      Dear Jonathan

      Thank you for your kind comment and please forgive the delay in replying. These are indeed hard words of the Lord which challenge and provoke! He calls us to follow him without reserve: it’s him first or nothing. And his challenge to discipleship sounds hard and unreasonable. Most of us will not ba called to make the choice between the Lord and those we love most dearly. Some will. Franz Jaggerstatter was. Did he ‘hate’ his family when he put his loyalty to the Lord Jesus first? Some people thought so, probably including his parish priest.

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