Imagining the Lectionary: Our Cinderella Mission (Epiphany 4B)
Imagining the Lectionary: Our Cinderella Mission (Epiphany 4B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Our Cinderella Mission (Epiphany 4B) Reflection accompanying images: “Our Cinderella mission” “Lost shoe in gutter 1” and “Lost shoe in gutter 2” Coming across this solitary red shoe in the gutter my attention was held by the strangeness of the sight, an…
Reflection: What about eating?
Reflection: What about eating?
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: What about eating? Sounds like a vegetarian manifesto to me. ‘I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.’ Does that mean that we all have to become veggies? Not a chance! How could I live without bacon butties, or ham sandwiches? As for Christm…
Poem: A man with a devil
Poem: A man with a devil
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: A man with a devil It took a man with a problem – a man with a devil inside him, they said – to recognize the real nature of Jesus first. There was the knowledge that here stood an enemy of evil. There was fear that the holiness of God could drive that evil away. There was …
Poem: The Castle on the Rock
Poem: The Castle on the Rock
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: The Castle on the Rock (Scarborough Castle in North Yorkshire had stood for centuries, but was severely damaged by shells from German battleships in 1914 when the town was attacked from the sea and people were killed and property destroyed in an unprovoked incident.) I can …
Poem: Four strong fishermen
Poem: Four strong fishermen
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Four strong fishermen, Four strong fishermen, four young men, two sets of brothers, good honest workers – all gone from the village in one day. What a loss to the families. What a loss to the community. Who will replace them? Where can you find four such young men in a cris…
Prayer: The changing world
Prayer: The changing world
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: The changing world Dear God, sometimes when we look at the world we live in, we are filled with despair at the selfishness and greed that we see around us. It seems as if so many people are concerned solely with their own business and no one cares about morality, or selfl…
All Desires Known - The Refining Fire Collect
All Desires Known - The Refining Fire Collect
by SPCK - Janet Morley
THE REFINING FIRE Collect Isaiah 40.1–11; Malachi 3.1–5 God our healer, whose mercy is like a refining fire: touch us with your judgement... Advent 2 (ABC); Proper 2 (B); Proper 23 (BC); Proper 25 (B); Presentation (ABC); Birth of John the Baptist (ABC) Taken from All Desires Kno…
All Desires Known - Tell Out My Soul Collect
All Desires Known - Tell Out My Soul Collect
by SPCK - Janet Morley
TELL OUT MY SOUL Collect Luke 1.46–55 O God whose word is fruitless where the mighty are not put down, the humble remain humiliated... Blessed Virgin Mary (ABC); Advent 3 (AB); Advent 4 (BC); Proper 21 (C) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK
All Desires Known - Most Holy and Most Humble Collect
All Desires Known - Most Holy and Most Humble Collect
by SPCK - Janet Morley
MOST HOLY AND MOST HUMBLE Collect John 1.1–14 Mighty God, most holy and most humble, you have chosen to hear our cry... Christmas Day (ABC); 2 before Lent (B); Lent 4 (B); Christ the King (C) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK
January
January
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: January (the month is named after the Roman god, Janus, whose two faces looked in opposite directions and who was the god of doors, or openings.) At the turning of the year that two-faced Roman god looks longingly back, yet urges us forward into the unknown. We stand at the…
Two mothers of Bethlehem