Lectionary 13/02/2022
- Sixth Sunday after Epiphany - Year C
- Proper 2 (CW)Ordinary 6 (MW)/Epiphany 6 (CO) - Year C
Luke 6:17-26
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Proper 2 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Proper 2 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 2 Luke 6.17-26 Gaze on the waiting room in a busy hospital. Pale walls bear replica Monets and dull still lifes of sallow fruit, and these are meant to calm you somehow. Lino echoes with each nurse’s step. People sit around, some chatting quietly, others gaze ahead, each p…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 2 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 2 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 2 Jeremiah 17.5–10 1 Corinthians 15.12–20 Luke 6.17–26 Blessings and woes: the upside-down world of the gospel, addressing, as Jeremiah had done, the heart’s self-deceptions, and allowing YHWH to test the mind and search the heart. The woes read like a list of contemporary…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 2 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 2 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 2 Jeremiah 17.5–10 1 Corinthians 15.12–20 Luke 6.17–26 Paul’s discussion of the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15 has fascinated scholars and Christians alike. It shows clearly that the earliest preaching of the gospel contained the witness to the risen Christ. This is, as …
Beatitudes for today
Beatitudes for today
by Colin Smith
Beatitudes for today This short meditation was written in response to a challenge to write some Beatitudes to reflect today’s concerns in contemporary Western society. As such it should be seen as stimulus material whose main purpose is to promote thought. Essentially, it is sati…
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