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Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Christ the King Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Christ the King Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Christ the King - Year A First Sunday before Advent Meditation on Matthew 25: 31-46 Gaze on all these people gathering before the Son of Man on the day of judgement, all the characters we’ve met over the year. There are kings from the east and an innkeeper; there’s Mary, mother …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Easter Day Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Easter Day Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Easter Day - Year A Meditation on Matthew 28: 1-10 Gaze as the women come over the brow of the hill. In the early morning shadows, everything looks bland and blank, bleached of colour. Smell the dewy earth, feel the hem of their skirts damp and smeared with dust. The rocky hillsi…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Palm Sunday Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Palm Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Palm Sunday - Year A The Liturgy of the Palms Meditation on Matthew 21: 1-11 Gaze on the old city of Jerusalem, the narrow lanes choked with shoppers and craftsmen and crowded with pilgrims. Walk past the noisy blacksmiths’ quarter, and wander through the district where they dye …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Pentecost Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Pentecost Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Day of Pentecost- Year A Meditation on John 7: 37-39 Gaze on a river in all its varied stages. At first it is a silent trickle, welling up from a spring, always replenished yet forever hidden. Then the quiet country stream brings delight to children who picnic by its bank and pad…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 10 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 10 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 10 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 Gaze on this field – it’s easy to imagine, for Jesus has painted such a detailed picture. You may pass through such fields when you walk the dog. Together you stroll along the path, where in spring a few brave seeds have had…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 11 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 11 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 11 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43 Gaze – listen! to a radio station in France, or Spain, or Germany, or wherever you are on holiday or business. Perhaps you learnt that language at school and used to be proficient enough, but now you are rusty and only cat…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 12 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 12 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 12 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 13: 31-33, 44-52 Gaze into the loft of an old house, left undisturbed by three or four generations of the same family. Feel the cobwebs brush against your face as you enter. Smell the dust and see it cake your hands. Begin to tidy up a…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 13 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 13 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 13 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 14: 3-21 Gaze on this footsore crowd of people, who came out so enthusiastically, traipsing in the midday sun from their town and villages over the hills, down steep stony paths, to the shore. See the men scanning the lake, shielding their…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 14 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 14 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 14 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 14: 22-33 Gaze on a child taken swimming for the first time by her family. She’s excited because she knows this is a treat, she’s got a new swimsuit, and bright orange armbands. But once in the water, her excitement turns to fear. The firs…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 15 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 15 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 15 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 15: (14-20) 21-28 Gaze on this woman. She is in great distress, and this gives her the courage to defy convention. Expecting to be rebuffed, she’s got nothing to lose, so she may as well try. And at first, her fears are confirmed, as the d…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 16 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 16 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 16 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 16: 13-20 Gaze on a stained-glass window, the sort you find in a large church or maybe a cathedral. It is covered with an array of prophets, often dressed in heavy bourgeois robes and fur hats, looking like successful merchants or stern ac…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 17 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 17 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 17 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 16: 21-28 Gaze on Peter dragging Jesus off to a corner of the room where they are lodging, and Jesus and Peter standing with their backs to the rest of the group, as Peter berates him! Or perhaps this episode took place as they were walkin…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 18 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 18 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 18 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 18: 15-20 Gaze on a heated discussion in Parliament, with opposing sides interrupting and jeering at each other and the Speaker calling out in vain ‘Order! Order!’ Watch a row between two children, brothers and sisters, running to Mum or D…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 19 Year A