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LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 6th Sunday in Lent Year C Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 Philippians 2:5-11 Luke 19:28-40 When Jesus made arrangements for a colt to be available for him to ride into Jerusalem at the start of his last week on earth, he was planning a demonstration of royal powe…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 13 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 13 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 13 Luke 12: 13-21 Gaze on an allotment in high summer. All the fruits and vegetables are ripening together, for the profligacy of nature takes us by surprise every time. Every year we grow more beans than we can hope to use. There’s a bumper crop of gooseberries, and the r…
Ash Wednesday Liturgy
Ash Wednesday Liturgy
by John Birch
A liturgy for use on Ash Wednesday or as part of Lent worship, with responsive prayer and scope for several voices to be involved. Into your presence we come, Lord a few moments of quietness in a busy world that demands our attention Breathe on us now that we might know your pres…
Letters to London - 10 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell and the Cromwell family Part 2
Letters to London - 10 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell and the Cromwell family Part 2
by SPCK - Stephen J.Plant and Toni Burrowes-Cromwell
10 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell and the Cromwell family Part 2 Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell were all written in German. Only the last of the 12, the letter from Finkenwalde of 27 March 1936, was typewritten…
embodying mark - 8 Into the Silence
embodying mark - 8 Into the Silence
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
8 Into the Silence They have been in the story all along, but silent and invisible, unnamed like the woman with her alabaster jar, until now. Even once some of them are named, at the death and the burial (15.40 – 41, 47), still they are motionless and voiceless…
Times and Seasons - Full service - Proper 19 (24) - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full service - Proper 19 (24) - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 19(24) - Year A Hymn: Great [Lord] God your love has called us here or Bright morning maker, as your sun breaks through Prayer: Great God, your love Poem: How much more Reading: Psalm 114 - Exodus 14:19–31 Hymn: Guide me O thou great Jeh…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany – Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany – Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany – Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: For the fruits of his creation or Creation sings and joy is ours for sharing Prayer: The Lord’s Prayer Hymn: Can we by searching find out God or At the learning curve's beginning Reading: Leviticus 19:1–2;…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Transfiguration Sunday – Last before Lent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Transfiguration Sunday – Last before Lent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Transfiguration Sunday – Last before Lent - Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: Christ, whose glory fills the skies or Bright morning maker Responsive Prayer: Great God, you bring light Hymn: Have faith in God, my heart or God laughs at foolish schemes and plans Reading: Exodu…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Christmas Eve Communion
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Christmas Eve Communion
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Christmas Eve Communion – Proper 1 Service Contents: Hymn: Long ago, prophets knew or Where is Jesus, where is Mary, Prayer: God, we meet in anticipation The Lord’s Prayer Reading: Isaiah 9:2-7 Hymn: Come, Thou long-expected Jesus or O what did it mean to the ones who first heard…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Holy Innocents - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Holy Innocents - Year B
by Andrew Pratt
Holy Innocents - Year B Call to worship: Hymn: The race that long in darkness pined or Awake again within the love Prayer: God, ground of being The Lord’s Prayer Reading: Jeremiah 31:15–17 Hymn: Born in the night, Mary’s child or Keep joy alive! The angels sing Reading: Matthew 2…
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Christ the Seed, Christ the Mediator
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Christ the Seed, Christ the Mediator
by SPCK - N T Wright
Christ the Seed, Christ the Mediator Galatians 3.15-22 ‘It’s what he would have wanted.’ How often has that phrase been used to settle an argument, when someone has died and the family are trying to organize the funeral, or the disposal of property, or the appropriate way to brin…
Great Christian Thinkers - 60 St. Bonaventure
Great Christian Thinkers - 60 St. Bonaventure
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Bonaventure Interpreter of Francis I talk now about St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. I confide to you that in broaching this subject I feel a certain nostalgia, for I am thinking back to my research as a young scholar on this author, who was particularly dear to me. My knowledg…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God of Light and God of Darkness
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God of Light and God of Darkness
by SPCK - John Goldingay
God of Light and God of Darkness Psalm 104 When my older son got into his midteens, he declared that he was no longer coming to church with his mother and me. Fortunately this was not because he had decided that all church was stupid but that our demure Anglican church wasn’t kee…
Psalms for Everyone - I Wash My Hands in Innocence
Psalms for Everyone - I Wash My Hands in Innocence
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Wash My Hands in Innocence Psalm 26 In the Episcopal church, when we move from the first part of a service, which focuses on the reading of Scripture, to the celebration of communion, someone pours a little water over my hands as the priest and I say some words from Psalm 26: “…
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 Psalm 50 Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Luke 12:32-40 “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 1:1). Faith is precious because it enables us to hope and trust in God even when – to …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Friday Year B