Lectionary 16/05/2021
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John 17:6-19
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday after Ascension Day) Acts 1.15-17, 21-26 1 John 5.9-13 John 17.6-19 The interesting thing about the choice of Matthias has nothing to do with Matthias himself. Nor is it the striking method of his selection, which if applied today would simpli…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Seventh Sunday of Easter John 17:6-19 Gaze on the face of Jesus, rapt with attention. At this point, he is so deep in prayer that the disciples dare not fidget or interrupt such a holy moment. They do not cough or break the stillness of Jesus, who is directing his entire ener…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 1.15-17, 21-26 1John 5.9-13 John 17.6-19 What would you like people to pray for on your behalf? What is your most usual – truthful – prayer request? Does Jesus’s prayer for his disciples match your expectations in any way? This prayer comes as Je…
Hymn: Held in the arms of God's love and compassion
Hymn: Held in the arms of God's love and compassion
by Andrew Pratt
Held in the arms of God's love and compassion, Jesus had kept them right up to the end, these his disciples, now named as Apostles, each of these strangers now counted as friend. Jesus had taught them by word and example, shared times of suffering, illness and grief. Spell-bound …
Prayer: Challenging God
Prayer: Challenging God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Challenging God Challenging God, when we commit ourselves to following your way, and to the pattern that Jesus set us for daily living, we often feel out of step with the people in the world around us. It’s not because we want to cut ourselves off from them. It’s not beca…
Imagining the Lectionary: confronting the reality of evil (Easter 7B)
Imagining the Lectionary: confronting the reality of evil (Easter 7B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Confronting the reality of evil (Easter 7B) Reflection accompanying image “Demon locked within” My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. (John 17:15) Jesus never prayed that his disciples would f…
Imagining the Lectionary: Sanctified by the truth (Easter 7B)
Imagining the Lectionary: Sanctified by the truth (Easter 7B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Sanctified by the truth (Easter 7B) Reflection accompanying images “Salts mill gallery looking at 8 portraits by David Hockney” and “Looking at Yosemite montage by David Hockney” Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. (John 17:17) A family visit…
John for Everyone part 2 - Glorify the Son
John for Everyone part 2 - Glorify the Son
by SPCK - N T Wright
Glorify the Son John 17.1-8 Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is full of action. Ghosts, murders, love scenes, plots, accidental killings, betrayals, recriminations and more plots. The play highlights the indecision of the hero when faced with huge problems, and this results in pauses he…
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus Prays for His People
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus Prays for His People
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus Prays for His People John 17.9-19 In the newspapers recently a mother was punished by the courts. She had left her two young children entirely by themselves, while she went off for a foreign holiday with her new boyfriend. (The father, it seems, was nowhere to be found.) It…
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 7th Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 1: 1-15 Psalm 1 1 John 5: 9-13 John 17: 6-19 In the opening of the book of Acts, Luke establishes the basis on which the Church is to be built. He reminds his readers of the “convincing proof” - the visible and tangible evidence - tha…
Traces of Glory Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday after Ascension Day) - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday after Ascension Day) - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday after Ascension Day) Holy Spirit of God, We watch for you, we wait for you, We look for you, we long for you. Come Holy Spirit, renew us, refresh us, restore us, That we may live and work to your glory;…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B Service Contains: Hymn: Morning has broken or Sunlight glinting on the water Prayer: Generous and caring God, we come Hymn: Have faith in God, my heart or Blown by the winds of chance and fault Psalm 1: Poem: Which way? Reading: Acts 1:15-17, 21-…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 219
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 219
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
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