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The Power of the Parable - Prologue Story and Metaphor
The Power of the Parable - Prologue Story and Metaphor
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
Prologue Story and Metaphor In the summer of 1960 I was a monk and a priest in the Servite monastery high on the Janiculum hill in Rome and halfway through two years of postdoctoral research at the downtown Pontifical Biblical Institute. Rome was preparing for the Olympic Games i…
Prayers: Accident and Emergency
Prayers: Accident and Emergency
by Christine Dutton
Prayers for those who work in hospitals and those who need to visit hospital. Having visited our local accident and emergency department with my son who had broken his toe, every corner I turned there was someone else working to make the hospital work. Grateful for the opportunit…
Imagining the Lectionary: There was a rich man (Proper 21C / Pentecost 19C)
Imagining the Lectionary: There was a rich man (Proper 21C / Pentecost 19C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: There was a rich man (Proper 21Yr C / Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Yr C) Reflection accompanying images “There was a rich man - Clock sculpture Manchester peoples history museum 2 - Clock sculpture Manchester peoples history museum 3 - Enough food f…
Jesus and the children - action story
Jesus and the children - action story
by Meryl White
A retelling of the mothers bringing their children to Jesus. Action story - based on Mark 10 v 13 -16. Jesus and the children - Congregation repeat each line and copy actions. Mothers were bringing their babies to Jesus, Holding baby action. They wanted Jesus to bless the childre…
Loaves and fishes: A story to share
Loaves and fishes: A story to share
by Meryl White
An interactive story based on John 6:1-13 - Jesus feeds the five thousand. Loaves and Fishes: A story to share. This is an interactive story suitable for all age worship or children’s address. The storyteller may accompany the story with simple actions as described below. When a …
Monologue/Drama: The crafty manager
Monologue/Drama: The crafty manager
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue/Drama: The crafty manager He was a crafty devil, that manager of mine – and devil was the right word for him. He’d been fiddling his expenses for years and the only reason he got away with it was that I wasn’t involving myself in the management side of the business as m…
Reflection: Visionary
Reflection: Visionary
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/dialogue/drama: Visionary (Could be read as a dialogue, or monologue) If your country was being over-run by an invading force and you were under siege in your own city, would you tell your king that God was prepared to hand over the city to the enemy? Jeremiah did. If …
Poem: Good news
Poem: Good news
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Good news Bad news stories hit the headlines: crime and evil every day. and if there’s no bad news story, speculation will hold sway. Tweets and twitters full of fury fuel aggression, stir up hate and when this erupts in violence, action comes, but far too late. Continues..…
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
by SPCK - David Adam
Thanksgiving The psalmist says, ‘Come into his gates with thanksgiving, enter his courts with praise.’ One of the easiest ways to seek God is to think and thank; literally to count your blessings, to see the world as His creation, to see your life, and your eternal life, as in Hi…
The Open Gate - Dedication
The Open Gate - Dedication
by SPCK - David Adam
Dedication Not only is God forever giving us gifts, He is giving us Himself. In fact it is because He gives us Himself, that His gifts are available to us. God is present in our lives and the more we open ourselves to Him, the more His gifts are able to flow into us and through u…
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer - Prayers 3&4
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer - Prayers 3&4
by SPCK - David Adam
The Eucharistic Prayer [He] took bread and gave you thanks; he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. [Here the priest may break the bread, holding part in each hand and spreading his arms outwards to make the shape of th…
The Open Gate - Confession