Written - Search Results
Times and Seasons - Full Service - First Sunday in Lent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - First Sunday in Lent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
First Sunday in Lent - Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: God is love: let heaven adore him or Come to join the worship Prayer: Great and mighty God Reading: Genesis 2:15–17; 3:1–7 Monologue: The Serpent’s Tale Hymn: O Jesus, I have promised or We turn the tables on our frien…
LWPT Meditations - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Genesis 45: 1-15 The story of Joseph is an important one, taking up thirteen of the fifty chapters of Genesis - roughly a quarter. It is easy to overlook as a children’s tale, but it teaches some profound truths. Its purpose is mainl…
LWPT Meditations - Christmas Day
LWPT Meditations - Christmas Day
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- Christmas Day Isaiah 9 v 2-7 Psalm 96 Titus 2 v 11-14 Luke 2 v 1-14 In Luke’s gospel account we have all the trappings of the ever popular nativity play – the mother Mary, her husband Joseph, the town of Bethlehem, the overcrowded inn, the manger, the shepherds, the …
LWPT Meditations - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 1st Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a Psalm 42, 43 Galatians 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39 When Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, he showed amazing courage and trust in God. Although outnumbered by 450 to one, he put his life in jeopa…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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