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It was my privilege today to preach at the weekly '12 Step Eucharist' which takes place at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria on Tuesday evenings.  I chose the theme, taken from the Lections from the Tuesday for Holy Week, of Death and Resurrection (surprise, a very unexpected theme for Holy Week...) As it won't be shared anywhere else, for the time being, here's a taster, the full text is on my ' New Kid Deep Stuff ' blog (where old sermons go to receive their rest) Tuesday in Holy Week 2014 – 12 Step Eucharist Ps 71:1–14 Jn 12:20–36 Death and resurrection We don’t like talking about death.   At least as a society we steer clear of talking about death.   It’s a strange reversal on the Victorian era where they took almost a delight in all the things that surrounded death, they observed mourning very visibly and even took pictures of deceased loved ones – known as momento mori – to keep.   But they were very uptight indeed about sex and (the urban...