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Fr Billy Swan discusses the significance of St Bonaventure and reflects on a question posed by Pope Benedict regarding the word of God.

Fr Billy Swan presents from Rome on the feast of St Bonaventure, opening with the Parable of the Sower and a question he heard Pope Benedict ask at the 2009 Chrism Mass, from twenty yards away: “Are we truly pervaded by the word of God… even more than bread and the things of this world?” […]

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