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Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Lent 5 (Passion Sunday) – Year B
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Lent 5 (Passion Sunday) – Year B
by SPCK - Ian Black
Lent 5 (Passion Sunday) – Year B God of our salvation We trust in your promise. You come to meet us, O Lord, long before we search for you. Make your Church a gateway to encountering your presence and glory . . . Taken from Intercessions for Years A, B and C by Ian Black
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 16 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 16 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 16 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 16: 13-20 Gaze on a stained-glass window, the sort you find in a large church or maybe a cathedral. It is covered with an array of prophets, often dressed in heavy bourgeois robes and fur hats, looking like successful merchants or stern ac…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 17 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 17 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 17 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 16: 21-28 Gaze on Peter dragging Jesus off to a corner of the room where they are lodging, and Jesus and Peter standing with their backs to the rest of the group, as Peter berates him! Or perhaps this episode took place as they were walkin…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 22 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 22 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 22 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 21: 33-46 Gaze, not on this story, but another scene of attack, that will take place a little later in Matthew’s Gospel, when the violence predicted here against the son and heir finally takes place. Gaze as the ‘tenants’ approach him in G…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 20 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 20 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 20 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 20: 1-16 Gaze on that very British pastime, a queue. We queue for buses, we queue at the checkout, and we wait patiently in line to buy our ticket at the cinema. Remember the old-fashioned system in banks and post offices? The first to arr…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 19 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 19 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 19 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 18: 21-35 Gaze on the king in this story. It appears from the context that he’s an eastern potentate ruling over a world where slavery is common and torture rife. Perhaps he’s just entered a prolonged war, or the harvest has been poor, or …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 18 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 18 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 18 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 18: 15-20 Gaze on a heated discussion in Parliament, with opposing sides interrupting and jeering at each other and the Speaker calling out in vain ‘Order! Order!’ Watch a row between two children, brothers and sisters, running to Mum or D…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 23 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 23 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 23 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 22: 1-14 Gaze on the one character in this story who has nothing to say: the bridegroom. He’s dressed in all his finery, proud and anxious, for tomorrow is his big day when he’ll meet his bride, possibly for the first time. The banquet is …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 21 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 21 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 21 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 21: 23-32 Gaze on this family scene, played out daily in thousands of households throughout the world. Supper’s over and the mother says to the oldest child, ‘Can you help me with the dishes?’ The child continues to scrape his plate for th…
Imagining the Lectionary: The other energy source which lights up the church
Imagining the Lectionary: The other energy source which lights up the church
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The other energy source which lights up the church(proper 27C / Ordinary 32C) Reflection accompanying image The other energy source which lights up the church Image: ‘The other energy source which lights up the church’ The presence of the living God is n…
Small is beautiful
Small is beautiful
by Marjorie Dobson
Bible reflection: Small is beautiful! Luke 19: 1-10 You may have noticed that I’m quite small really. Vertically challenged is how they phrase it today! That’s why I’m looking down at you, but I actually feel as if I’m peering over the top of things in order to see you. In some p…
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: The Pharisee and the Tax Collector One man stands and prays aloud, very conscious of the crowd. ‘I’m so good you won’t believe it. Hear my prayer, God, and receive it. I’m the one who lives by rules, not like thieves, adulterers, fools. Look at that man cowering there. Can …
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