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Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 14: 1-14 Gaze on all the maps you use in daily life. On a trip to London, you stare at the maze of the Underground, trying to follow the snake-like threads of the different lines, and make sense of the colour codes. There’s t…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 17: 1-11 Gaze on some of the earliest Christian paintings, the third-century frescos in the catacombs of Rome. On the wall of the catacomb of Priscilla is depicted a Christian worshipping God – standing upright with a praye…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Easter Sunday Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Easter Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Easter Sunday - Year A Jeremiah 31.1–6 Colossians 3.1–4 John 20.1–18 Real life is something so unusual that we can barely recognize it. Occasionally, we get a glimpse of it and it touches us with awe: the birth of a baby, for example, or listening to a perfectly performed piece o…
Poem: Always missing, never grasping
Poem: Always missing, never grasping
by Andrew Pratt
(Doubting Thomas after Leonard Cohen’s song 'Suzanne' which has the line: '…and Jesus was a sailor...') Always missing, never grasping, hope amid this shifting sea, coast and haven seem remote now, too far off to harbour me. Yet those fishermen are telling news that I can't compr…
Reflection/Meditation: 'What are you doing this afternoon?'
Reflection/Meditation: 'What are you doing this afternoon?'
by Andrew Pratt
Reflection/Meditation: 'What are you doing this afternoon?' 'What are you doing this afternoon?' I'd been referred to an ophthalmologist. He thought I might lose my sight. There was a possibility of chronic glaucoma. This was 11 o'clock. By 3 that afternoon I'd had laser treatmen…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 5th Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 8: 26-40 Psalm 22: 25-31 1 John 4: 7-21 John 15: 1-8 I once went into a cafe to buy my dog a sandwich. She was hungry and I had forgotten to pack any dog biscuits with our picnic. Of course, I didn’t want to admit the sandwich was for…
We join the crowd‚ who‚ on this day
We join the crowd‚ who‚ on this day
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
1 We join the crowd‚ who‚ on this day‚ sang praise to Christ along the way; their theme renewed we gladly sing: Hosanna to the Lord‚ our King! 2 Yet‚ when the homage has been paid and all the acclamations fade‚ may we be found with Jesus still beneath his cross on Calv’ry’s h…
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