Jesus lifted up his eyes, and saw a large crowd coming towards him……And he said, “Have the people sit down.” Today we are at the end of the Church Year. We’ve travelled one more time on earth around the sun. And the Son of God has shone on us. We’ve had placed before our eyes, Sunday by Sunday, and hopefully more and more during the week, during our every waking hour and sometimes in our sleep, the…
Jesus lifted up his eyes, and saw a large crowd coming towards him. Today we have come to the end of the Church year. Our readings this morning are a kind of summing up of the year and a looking forward to the year to come. As we go through each Church year, we are meant to come to a certain conclusion about who Jesus is. In most modern lectionaries the Church celebrates this Sunday…
The Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. Some might say that Lent is a season to be sorrowful for our sins, a time of mourning, and certainly there are times within Lent where that might be a greater emphasis – especially in Holy Week, leading to Good Friday. But my Christian teachers have stressed that Lent is a time of the lightening of burdens as we cast off…
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing may be lost. Today we have come to the end of the Church year. Our Scripture lessons are a kind of summing up of the year and a looking forward to the year to come. The reading from Jeremiah (23:5-8), was a word from God spoken to the people of Judah at the time of their coming exile to Babylon about 600 years before the birth of Jesus. …
Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him. Today we have come to the end of the Church year. Our readings this morning are a kind of summing up of the year – which must be in the end a summing up of our faith in Jesus Christ: Jesus is our Prophet, Priest and King! God’s Word is also turning our minds to His plan in coming to us in Jesus…
Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. This is Mothering Sunday, it has been a tradition to remember our mothers this day who gave life to us from their very flesh and who have and continue to nurture us in our earthly life (even if they have passed on to the next – by example, by their wise counsel, and behind the veil, with love and prayers). In England Mothering Sunday has also been…
Many of you will know, I have been blessed on November 10 with the birth of a beautiful little girl. After three boys it was extra special to see Jael come into the world – at our home – and being so lovingly received by her older brothers. It is a wonderful time. At first the house is full of restlessness and questions. When will it be born? What will it be? Will everything go…