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Imagining the Lectionary: Good Friday Snapshot
Imagining the Lectionary: Good Friday Snapshot
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Good Friday Snapshot Reflection accompanying image “Jesus dies on the cross” In this one snapshot the cost of loving like God loves is starkly apparent. Jesus takes on all that is life-denying and spirit-crushing and refuses to concede defeat or turn…
Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “Bear fruits worthy of repentance ” Bear fruits worthy of repentance. (Luke 3:8) Winter strips everything back and we are left to focus on what really matters. The hedgerows are d…
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “The crowds came out ” How are we to picture the crowds of people who left their homes and made their way out to the Jordan to be baptised by John the Baptist? One striking piece that I saw in…
Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “Footprints on the beach leading away from a storm ” On that day I will gather you together and bring you home again (Zephaniah 3:20) John said to the crowds th…
Let it be with me according to your word
Let it be with me according to your word
by David Perry
Image accompanying reflection "Imagining the Lectionary: Let it be with me according to your word (Advent 4)" TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image pr…
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A) Reflection accompanying image “foxgloves and bee illustrating the morphology of discipleship”. When the sun came out after a day of prolonged rain the foxgloves dripped a…
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A) Reflection accompanying image “Difficult path ahead”. "Don't think I've come to make life cozy. I've come to cut—make a sharp knife-cut between son and father, daughter and mother, bride and mothe…
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith - fashionable, desirable and essential (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday)
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith - fashionable, desirable and essential (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith - fashionable, desirable and essential (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday) Reflection accompanying image “Faith fashionable desirable essential” I could not help but notice the irony of the manufacturer's name which frames this display …
Imagining the Lectionary: Transfiguring Vision (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday)
Imagining the Lectionary: Transfiguring Vision (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Transfiguring Vision (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday) Reflection accompanying image “Ethereal willow tree in winter mist” On a bitterly cold afternoon freezing mist is vying with the fading winter sunshine for mastery of the snowy landsc…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Advent Year A