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Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Second Sunday Before Lent Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Second Sunday Before Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday Before Lent - Year A Genesis 1.1—2.3 Romans 8.18–25 Matthew 6.25–34 The project was all set up and ready to go. Creation was more like a perfect studio than a finished painting; everything was there, paints, canvas, artist, and all. It had its own inbuilt rhythm…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 3 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 3 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 3 - Year A Leviticus 19.1–2, 9–18 1 Corinthians 3.10–11, 16–23 Matthew 5.38–48 There are two basic mistakes people make about the command to love your neighbour as yourself. The first is to forget the last two words. We aren’t told to love our neighbour with all our heart,…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 2 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 2 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 2 - Year A Deuteronomy 30.15–20 1 Corinthians 3.1–9 Matthew 5.21–37 A real choice with real consequences. The great temptation today is not so much to cast off all moral restraint – few would actually advocate that, though many act from time to time as though that were the…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 1 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 1 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 1 - Year A Isaiah 58.1–12 1 Corinthians 2.1–16 Matthew 5.13–20 Isaiah’s stinging rebuke contains the seeds of the Sermon on the Mount. True piety must be part of the outward movement to share your blessing with the world. Fasting is useless if injustice goes unchecked. L…
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Epiphany 4 – Year B
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Epiphany 4 – Year B
by SPCK - Ian Black
Epiphany 4 – Year B Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Jesus, Holy One of God, your teaching astounded those in the synagogue. Build up your Church through godly preachers and teachers of your word . . . Taken from Intercessions for…
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Epiphany 1 - Year A
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Epiphany 1 - Year A
by SPCK - Ian Black
Epiphany 1 – Year A Lord, arise and shine Make known your glory. Spirit of God, descending like a dove, anoint your Church with your life-giving and affirming presence . . . Lead the people of your New Covenant to proclaim your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, at your baptism you humble…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Christ the King Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Christ the King Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Christ the King - Year A First Sunday before Advent Meditation on Matthew 25: 31-46 Gaze on all these people gathering before the Son of Man on the day of judgement, all the characters we’ve met over the year. There are kings from the east and an innkeeper; there’s Mary, mother …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday before Advent Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday before Advent Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday before Advent - Year A Meditation on Matthew 24: 14-30 Gaze on a man with a metal detector, slowly inching across a field or a beach, searching for buried treasure. Sometimes he’ll turn up an odd Roman coin, or a Tudor brooch, or a broken pot. But occasionally s…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Third Sunday before Advent Reflection Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Third Sunday before Advent Reflection Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Third Sunday before Advent - Year A Meditation on Matthew 25: 1-13 Gaze on an early Saturday morning in late summer, when the sun has come up and promises a glorious day. You open the curtains and delight at the weather – it is perfect for planting your bulbs for next spring;…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday before Advent - Year A Meditation on Matthew 24: 1-14 Gaze on a bombsite, in Baghdad, perhaps, or maybe you’re old enough to remember the rubble in our cities after the Second World War, a newsreel of Dresden, or the wreck of Hiroshima. Homes have collapsed, spi…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 25 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 25 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 25 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 22: 34-46 Gaze on a religious community, set deep in the isolated countryside, where monks or nuns live together all their lives, and must learn to ‘get on’. Look around at the places set on the long refectory table, and place yourself the…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 24 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 24 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 24 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 22: 15-22 Gaze on the threatening circle tightening around Jesus that we see in these passages. Jesus has walked into the lion’s den and is challenging the Pharisees and the Temple authorities face to face. Here we are entering the longest…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 13 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 13 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 13 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 14: 3-21 Gaze on this footsore crowd of people, who came out so enthusiastically, traipsing in the midday sun from their town and villages over the hills, down steep stony paths, to the shore. See the men scanning the lake, shielding their…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 12 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 12 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 12 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 13: 31-33, 44-52 Gaze into the loft of an old house, left undisturbed by three or four generations of the same family. Feel the cobwebs brush against your face as you enter. Smell the dust and see it cake your hands. Begin to tidy up a…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 11 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 11 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 11 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43 Gaze – listen! to a radio station in France, or Spain, or Germany, or wherever you are on holiday or business. Perhaps you learnt that language at school and used to be proficient enough, but now you are rusty and only cat…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 10 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 10 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 10 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 Gaze on this field – it’s easy to imagine, for Jesus has painted such a detailed picture. You may pass through such fields when you walk the dog. Together you stroll along the path, where in spring a few brave seeds have had…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 7 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 7 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 7 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 10: 24-39 Gaze on yourself in a mirror. If you are young, your face is open, unlined, your skin fresh and clear, and your eyes are bright. Whether you wear your hair long or cropped, bobbed or short, it is thick and glossy. Do you see the f…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 6 Year A