A highly dramatic series of events in II Kings, Chapter 2.
Elijah is taken up in a fiery chariot. Elisha catches his mantle, parts the Jordan, purifies the waters of Jericho, and then curses some cheeky boys, forty-two of whom are then ripped apart by two she bears. Quite an exhausting chapter!
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Newman and the Coronation
May 5, 2023
Read the sermon preached at this evening's Mass on the Vigil of the Coronation - how did St John Henry Newman describe the 1821 Coronation?