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Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 5 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 5 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 5 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 9: 9-13, 18-26 Gaze on Matthew, sitting in his tax booth. He’s snappily dressed in the latest trend, ooks like a city trader with designer shades hiding his eyes, a wide tie round his neck; a striped suit and Italian leather shoes complete…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 4 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 4 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 4 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 7: 21-29 Gaze on a building project near you. First the fencing goes up, then the site is levelled and allthe rubble cleared away. Dust swirls around and covers your jeans. The land is surveyed and the plan pegged out. The rooms look so sma…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Trinity Sunday- Year A Meditation on Matthew 28: 16-20 Gaze for the last time on Jesus, for this is his final appearance in Matthew’s Gospel, and the ending is sudden. No protracted goodbye is allowed for the disciples. There is no description of how they met him on the mountain …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 17: 1-11 Gaze on some of the earliest Christian paintings, the third-century frescos in the catacombs of Rome. On the wall of the catacomb of Priscilla is depicted a Christian worshipping God – standing upright with a praye…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 14: 1-14 Gaze on all the maps you use in daily life. On a trip to London, you stare at the maze of the Underground, trying to follow the snake-like threads of the different lines, and make sense of the colour codes. There’s t…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 10: 1-10 Gaze or, this time, listen. Listen to a person’s voice and wonder what it is about the timbre that makes it recognizable. Each voice has a trace as unique as a fingerprint. Voices do not age in the same way as our f…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on Luke 24: 13-35 Gaze in your memory on the many times in your life you’ve met with a stranger. Remember the anxious feelings – the butterflies in your stomach, or the fear of embarrassment. You go to a new school, where you don’t k…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 20: 19-31 Gaze on the doors of the house – note the plural. First there is the heavy external door, the main protection for the property, made of solid wood with massive hinges, and then another at the top of the stairs behi…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Easter Day Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Easter Day Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Easter Day - Year A Meditation on Matthew 28: 1-10 Gaze as the women come over the brow of the hill. In the early morning shadows, everything looks bland and blank, bleached of colour. Smell the dewy earth, feel the hem of their skirts damp and smeared with dust. The rocky hillsi…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Palm Sunday Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Palm Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Palm Sunday - Year A The Liturgy of the Palms Meditation on Matthew 21: 1-11 Gaze on the old city of Jerusalem, the narrow lanes choked with shoppers and craftsmen and crowded with pilgrims. Walk past the noisy blacksmiths’ quarter, and wander through the district where they dye …
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany - Year A 1 Kings 17.8–16 1 Corinthians 1.18–31 John 2.1–11 Most of us think we would like the kind of communication with God that Elijah has. The narrator of 1 Kings tells us, very matter-of-factly, that God tells Elijah to do something, and Elijah g…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Third Sunday of Epiphany - Year A Isaiah 9.1–4 1 Corinthians 1.10–18 Matthew 4.12–23 Corinth in the first century was a busy, loud, exciting place. It had been a reasonably wealthy trading centre for a couple of centuries at least, and that had attracted people of many religi…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Epiphany - Year A Isaiah 49.1–7 1 Corinthians 1.1–9 John 1.29–42 To be called by God is a thing of joy and terror, in about equal measures. The Corinthians are largely experiencing the excitement, at present, but their walk of discipleship will certainly lead…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The First Sunday of Epiphany Year A