Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
The room and the keys The Hebrew has passed on a beautiful tradition to us; it has to do with divine Scripture in its entirety. According to this man, all of divinely inspired Scripture, because of the obscurity that is in it, can be compared to many locked rooms in a house. Next…
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Abbreviations and Introduction With these few elementary notes on lectio divina, we hope to have provided readers with an opportunity to renew or develop a taste for a way of reading Scripture which is as old as the church itself, and which has deep roots in Judaism. I don’t thin…
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Series Foreword To read Enzo Bianchi’s work is, among other things, to be forcefully made aware that we have got used to a rather thin diet of resources to help us read the Bible. We have plenty of good scholarship and plenty of good popular summaries of that scholarship – but ve…
Times and Seasons - Full Service-Fifth Sunday of Easter-Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service-Fifth Sunday of Easter-Year B
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Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B Service contains: Hymn: God is love: let heaven adore him or Each hour marks a mighty resurrection Prayer: Meditation/poem/prayer: If love is the centre of God’s being Song/Hymn: When I needed a neighbor, were you there or See your brother in each …
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - Sanctify Them in the Truth
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - Sanctify Them in the Truth
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Sanctify Them in the Truth In his prayer, Jesus has described how he manifested the name of God to his disciples and has prayed for their protection in the world which he is leaving as ‘I am coming to you’ (17:13). Before he leaves, however, he speaks this prayer still in the wor…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - ABIDE IN LOVE
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - ABIDE IN LOVE
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
ABIDE IN LOVE Jesus uses the image of the vine to describe his relationship with his disciples, even when he is physically absent. He is the ‘true’ or ‘real vine’, and we are branches which must remain in the vine to bear fruit, the fruit of love, one of John’s key themes. Jesus …
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - From GARDEN to COURTYARD
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - From GARDEN to COURTYARD
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
From GARDEN to COURTYARD When Jesus warned the disciples after washing their feet that they could not follow where he was going, Peter offered to lay down his life for Jesus (13:37). Despite Jesus’ warning that he was more likely to deny him and everything in the Farewell Discour…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - We Want To See Jesus
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - We Want To See Jesus
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
We want to see Jesus John’s account of Jesus welcomed into Jerusalem by the crowd showed how he rejected violent revolution for just one nation, responding with a humility which caused ‘all the world’ to go after him. Both universalism and humble suffering are developed further i…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - LOVE ONE ANOTHER
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - LOVE ONE ANOTHER
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
LOVE ONE ANOTHER When Judas has ‘gone out’ to begin the events leading to Jesus’ arrest and death, Jesus starts talking to his disciples. This introduces several themes which will recur through the Farewell Discourse of chapters 14—17…
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - The party and the parties - 8
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - The party and the parties - 8
by SPCK - Tom Wright
8 The party and the parties Part Two THE THANK-YOU PARTY The Jesus-meal (to use an unusual though neutral phrase for it) was already woven into the heart of Christian living by the time Paul wrote to Corinth in the mid-50s, twenty years or so after Jesus’ death and resurrection. …
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new story - 5
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new story - 5
by SPCK - Tom Wright
5 New meal, new story Part One HOW IT ALL BEGAN So, like I said, it’s as though we’re now a single family. Thirty-two of us who heard the story and had the same thing happen to us. My wife heard the story and it had the same effect on her too, but half the others are people we’d …
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - A taste of what's to come - 11
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - A taste of what's to come - 11
by SPCK - Tom Wright
11 A taste of things to come Part Two THE THANK-YOU PARTY When the Israelites were wandering through the desert on their way to the promised land, Moses sent spies ahead into Canaan who would come back to tell what they had seen. (You can read the story in Numbers 13.)…
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new life - 6