Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Epiphany John 2.1-11 Gaze on all the colours of this occasion . . . See the vibrant wedding robes; the table piled high with rich food, the pink of pomegranates, the shock of oranges, the purples of the grapes, the sheen of the olives. The excitement mounts. …
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday of Lent Luke 15.1-3, 11b-32 Gaze on the father pacing his lemon groves each evening, climbing to the highest point of his land to scan the horizon. And at last he sees a dot, growing ever more distinct, ever more familiar. Gaze on the elder son, the outsider loo…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Lent Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Lent Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Lent Luke 13.31-35 Gaze on Jerusalem today, in greater need than ever of her children being gathered together in harmony. It is a city divided between Jew and Muslim, Jew and Christian, with no-go areas armed by guns. Churches are locked. Doubt and suspicion …
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Seventh Sunday of Easter John 17.20-26 Gaze on the disciples, trudging down the hillside after the Ascension, overwhelmed by the shock of losing the presence of Jesus yet again. Will absence make the heart grow fonder, or will it be a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind’? Some…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday before Lent Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday before Lent Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday before Lent Luke 6.22-25 Gaze on all the storms and flooding that towns and villages have suffered in Britain in recent years. Remember how violently the water rushed, stronger than a battering-ram, breaking down river banks and inundating the streets and homes.…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Christmas Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Christmas Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Christmas John 1. [1-9] 10-18 Gaze on all of God’s glorious creation, at once so mysterious and yet so familiar. It is hard to find an image today that captures the carefulness of God’s work, for we are in a world where everything is mass produced, and we are…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Trinity Sunday- Year A Meditation on Matthew 28: 16-20 Gaze for the last time on Jesus, for this is his final appearance in Matthew’s Gospel, and the ending is sudden. No protracted goodbye is allowed for the disciples. There is no description of how they met him on the mountain …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday before Advent - Year A Meditation on Matthew 24: 1-14 Gaze on a bombsite, in Baghdad, perhaps, or maybe you’re old enough to remember the rubble in our cities after the Second World War, a newsreel of Dresden, or the wreck of Hiroshima. Homes have collapsed, spi…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Trinity Sunday Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Trinity Sunday Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Trinity Sunday John 16: 12-15 Gaze on one of the great triptychs of medieval painting. These three-panelled paintings can be seen in all the great museums and some of the old cathedrals in Europe, displayed behind the altar. The main panel is flanked on either side by another, ti…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 8 Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 8 Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Lectionary reflections - Year A Ordinary Time Proper 8 Jeremiah 28.5–9 Romans 6.12–23 Matthew 10.40–42 Ours is an age with a great deal of interest in ‘spirituality’. We have rediscovered that ‘spirituality’ is good for us and, like exercise and a low-fat diet, we pursue it, but …
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Sunday Next Before Lent Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Sunday Next Before Lent Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Sunday Next Before Lent - Year A Exodus 24.12–18 2 Peter 1.16–21 Matthew 17.1–9 What is the purpose of the transfiguration of Jesus? Is it supposed to reassure and confirm or baffle and alarm? And who is it for? Is it for Jesus himself, or for the disciples? Matthew, like Luk…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Third Sunday of Lent Year A