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Reflection: Everyone knows …?
Reflection: Everyone knows …?
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Everyone knows …? Everyone knows the story of the woman who poured perfume over the feet of Jesus and wiped it away with her hair. Everyone knows that someone – a man - thought it was disgraceful that this should happen in public and strongly protested about it. Every…
Monday of Holy Week Service
Monday of Holy Week Service
by Marjorie Dobson
Monday of Holy Week - Complete Act of Worship (SLIGHTLY AMENDED VERSION OF THE TEXT ALREADY ON TWELVEBASKETS) John 12: 1-11, Mark 14: 1-9 Drama: The Woman and the Perfume The woman and the perfume (A complete order of service including hymns, meditation and some prayers written f…
Poem - Right here in the presence of loving and grace
Poem - Right here in the presence of loving and grace
by Andrew Pratt
Right here in the presence of loving and grace, see Judas is scowling, a sneer scars his face. Anointing with perfume is costly and rare, this gift could be sold giving substance to care. What need this affection, that Jesus received? It seemed to go counter to all they believed.…
Drama/Dialogue: What a waste!
Drama/Dialogue: What a waste!
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama/Dialogue: What a waste! (A piece for two voices.) What a waste - spending all that money on taking children to the seaside. You may call them deprived, but if their parents – presuming that they have any – got out and did some paid work, then they wouldn’t have to rely on c…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B Song 2: 8-13 Psalm 45: 1-2, 6-9 James 1:17-27 Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be on the front cover of “Hello” magazine; to see yourself described as “stunning”, “glittering”, “wowing the c…
Right here in the presence of loving and grace
Right here in the presence of loving and grace
by Andrew Pratt
Right here in the presence of loving and grace, see Judas is scowling, a sneer scars his face. Anointing with perfume is costly and rare, this gift could be sold giving substance to care. What need this affection, that Jesus received? It seemed to go counter to all they believed.…
Hymn: Life needs our care, not foolish indiscretion
Hymn: Life needs our care, not foolish indiscretion
by Andrew Pratt
Life needs our care, not foolish indiscretion, the willingness to guard against our greed; but still the world has need to learn the lesson: extravagance puts want ahead of need. God gives the Spirit to correct direction, to guide us from the drunkenness of thought that fuels a w…
Hymn: The world is a-turning, God set it a spinning
Hymn: The world is a-turning, God set it a spinning
by Andrew Pratt
The world is a-turning, God set it a spinning, and preachers and prophets are catching the wave; the Baptist is setting the tone for the future, come trust and repent and believe God can save. The soldiers and taxmen first heard this man preaching with fearless extravagance chall…
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