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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Holy Innocents - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Holy Innocents - Year B
by Andrew Pratt
Holy Innocents - Year B Call to worship: Hymn: The race that long in darkness pined or Awake again within the love Prayer: God, ground of being The Lord’s Prayer Reading: Jeremiah 31:15–17 Hymn: Born in the night, Mary’s child or Keep joy alive! The angels sing Reading: Matthew 2…
Poem/Meditation-A day to remember
Poem/Meditation-A day to remember
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Meditation : A day to remember? Remember a birth, insignificant coming, disruption, taxation, migration, not homing; except to a stable or some say a cave, foreshadow of future, too imminent grave. This is the day, but three years yet onward. Our dates mix and muddle, confus…
Flight into Epypt
Flight into Epypt
by Marjorie Dobson
First Sunday after Christmas Day Matthew 2. 13-23 Meditation: Flight into Egypt Another journey! And we’re going in the wrong direction again. What is God trying to do to me? To us? Why can’t we just go home and live in peace? I know Jesus is a sturdy child – and a happy one too,…
Herod Waiting, Herod Watching
Herod Waiting, Herod Watching
by Andrew Pratt
Music for the hymn 'Herod Waiting, Herod Watching' by Andrew Pratt Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please include any reproduction for local church and school use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial…
All Desires Known - Defender of the Helpless Collect
All Desires Known - Defender of the Helpless Collect
by SPCK - Janet Morley
DEFENDER OF THE HELPLESS Collect Matthew 2.13–18; 1 Corinthians 1.2–9 God of the dispossessed, defender of the helpless, you grieve with all the women who weep... Christmas 1 (A); Holy Innocents (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK
Herod waiting Herod watching
Herod waiting Herod watching
by Andrew Pratt
First after Christmas Year A Matthew 2: 13 – 23 Hymn: Herod waiting, Herod watching Herod waiting, Herod watching, Herod grasping, holding power, Herod fearful for the future, Herod counting every hour... Tune: HEROD WAITING, HEROD WATCHING - sheet music available to download. …
How can humans cause such carnage
How can humans cause such carnage
by Andrew Pratt
How can humans cause such carnage, ravage all the earth? How can people slaughter children they have brought to birth? Have we lost all moral sense, or is this just our human curse? When we turn the page of history life can seem so cheap. As we read of Herod’s hatred we are moved…
Two mothers of Bethlehem
Two mothers of Bethlehem
by Kit Walkham
A short but powerful drama or shared reading for 2 women. Aims to link Christmas and Easter. Stories for children help prepare them for the realities of life. So bereaved mothers from 1st century and 21st century Bethlehem challenge Mary as to what stories she told Jesus. Writte…
We wring our hands in hopelessness
We wring our hands in hopelessness
by Andrew Pratt
We wring our hands in hopelessness while Herod's spirit roams abroad, the innocent are slaughtered still as hatred draws a tighter cord. We lack audacity to face corruption in our very midst; humanity is drawn by greed and power has the final twist. God bring again your human…
The worst time of year, in the cold of the winter
The worst time of year, in the cold of the winter
by Andrew Pratt
The worst time of year, in the cold of the winter, no time to be travelling, setting abroad, yet here in this story the Magi are coming bringing the riches the world can afford. This frankincense speaks of the prayers of the people, while gold represents all the wealth of the ear…
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Epiphany
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Epiphany
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
3 Epiphany Exploring the text People often speak of the ‘birth narratives’ of Matthew, and due to the influence both of Luke’s account and of popular renderings of the nativity, it is easy to miss that Matthew has very little in the way of a proper ‘birth narrative’. There is mat…
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