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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…
friends, FOES and families - And she lived with her mother-in-law: Ruth and Naomi
friends, FOES and families - And she lived with her mother-in-law: Ruth and Naomi
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
And she lived with her Mother-in-law: Ruth and Naomi Ruth God our Mother, bless the brave, the compassionate, the steadfast women of our world. Give them refuge under your wings and the assurance that they are cared for...
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 21 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 21 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 21 Luke 16: 19-31 Gaze on an icy landscape. The glacier is solid, twenty, forty, sixty feet (six, twelve or eighteen metres) deep, and so white it is somehow blue. But a chasm has opened up, wider than a person’s leap. Look down into the freezing darkness. Gaze on a gorge …
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…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 107:12
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 107:12
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 107:12 The disease of this heart is down to rebelling ‘against the words of the Lord’ and lightly regarding ‘the counsel of the most Highest’ (v. 11). Although God is infinitely long-suffering and compassionate this should not be confused with indifference to disobedience…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Isaiah 58:1-9 Psalm 112:1-9 1st Corinthians 2:1-12 Matthew 5:13-20 Whenever I read what God says in Isaiah 58, I want to write it out and send a copy to every politician currently in power. Written centuries before the birth of Je…
Rhythms of remembering - Christmas - Friday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Christmas - Friday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
CHRISTMAS - Friday Evening Prayer RHYTHMS of Remembering O marvellous exchange! You who came to be with us are now at work to draw us to yourself. Today Christ is born, today a Saviour has appeared; today on earth angels are singing, today they cry out and say, Glory to God in th…
Still Caring - Compassion fatigue
Still Caring - Compassion fatigue
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
25 Compassion fatigue Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11.28) Think of those nasty bits at the bottom of a cup of real coffee. The bits that get between your teeth and stick to your tongue...
The Monastery Of The Heart - 15 Loving Care
The Monastery Of The Heart - 15 Loving Care
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Loving Care “Let those who are not strong have help….” Patience and care are two pillars of Benedictine community. They hold up before our eyes, in blinding light, in immovable form, what is to be the nature of our presence in the world… Taken from The Monastery Of The Heart by J…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 21. Ouch! I'm trying to help
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 21. Ouch! I'm trying to help
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 21. Ouch! I’m trying to help . . . Romans 12.18 I saw a woman in the supermarket yesterday. She had the generally washed-out look of the over-exhausted long-term carer and was hurrying to get her shopping done. Then I noticed the tell-ta…
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