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Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 20 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 20 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 20 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 20: 1-16 Gaze on that very British pastime, a queue. We queue for buses, we queue at the checkout, and we wait patiently in line to buy our ticket at the cinema. Remember the old-fashioned system in banks and post offices? The first to arr…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 21 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 21 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 21 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 21: 23-32 Gaze on this family scene, played out daily in thousands of households throughout the world. Supper’s over and the mother says to the oldest child, ‘Can you help me with the dishes?’ The child continues to scrape his plate for th…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 22 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 22 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 22 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 21: 33-46 Gaze, not on this story, but another scene of attack, that will take place a little later in Matthew’s Gospel, when the violence predicted here against the son and heir finally takes place. Gaze as the ‘tenants’ approach him in G…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 23 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 23 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 23 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 22: 1-14 Gaze on the one character in this story who has nothing to say: the bridegroom. He’s dressed in all his finery, proud and anxious, for tomorrow is his big day when he’ll meet his bride, possibly for the first time. The banquet is …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 24 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 24 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 24 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 22: 15-22 Gaze on the threatening circle tightening around Jesus that we see in these passages. Jesus has walked into the lion’s den and is challenging the Pharisees and the Temple authorities face to face. Here we are entering the longest…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 25 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 25 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 25 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 22: 34-46 Gaze on a religious community, set deep in the isolated countryside, where monks or nuns live together all their lives, and must learn to ‘get on’. Look around at the places set on the long refectory table, and place yourself the…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 4 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 4 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 4 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 7: 21-29 Gaze on a building project near you. First the fencing goes up, then the site is levelled and allthe rubble cleared away. Dust swirls around and covers your jeans. The land is surveyed and the plan pegged out. The rooms look so sma…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 5 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 5 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 5 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 9: 9-13, 18-26 Gaze on Matthew, sitting in his tax booth. He’s snappily dressed in the latest trend, ooks like a city trader with designer shades hiding his eyes, a wide tie round his neck; a striped suit and Italian leather shoes complete…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 6 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 6 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 6 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 9: 35 – 10.8 Gaze on the harassed and helpless, the dislocated and forgotten of our societies – like commuters without a train, milling around on the platform, tired after a long day standing on their feet serving in a shop for not much mor…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 7 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 7 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 7 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 10: 24-39 Gaze on yourself in a mirror. If you are young, your face is open, unlined, your skin fresh and clear, and your eyes are bright. Whether you wear your hair long or cropped, bobbed or short, it is thick and glossy. Do you see the f…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 8 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 8 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 8 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 10: 40-42 Gaze on an old-fashioned prize-giving ceremony at the local school. First there are the prizes for best in French, or maths, or music. Then awards for the fastest runner or the highest jumper. Form prizes follow for the most helpf…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 9 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 9 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 9 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 Gaze on these children playing in the marketplace. Children are the same the whole world over, and in every era. Today they would be in the home corner, playing make- believe games. ‘Let’s play weddings,’ says Kelly, who’s …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A