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Pride comes before …
Pride comes before …
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer - Pride comes before … Proper 16 year A Psalm 138: 6 If I am powerful and proud of it: if I consider myself to be a superior being: if I know that there is none to equal me: if I can look down on everyone else and feel that it is my right to do so – what need do I have of …
A topsy, turvy, upturned world
A topsy, turvy, upturned world
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: A topsy, turvy, upturned world Proper 20 Year A Matthew 20:1-16 A topsy, turvy, upturned world, where values are distorted, the first is last and last is first with everything contorted. The rich are begging at the door while ones they were despising are given charge of God…
Grumpy, graceless human beings
Grumpy, graceless human beings
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Grumpy, graceless human beings Proper 20 Year A Exodus 16: 2-15 Grumpy, graceless human beings angry at their lot; Moses once had been their idol, but they soon forgot. Slaves set free should be more grateful, but we’re just the same; satisfaction soon exhausted, ready to c…
Meditation - 4th sunday of Advent Year C
Meditation - 4th sunday of Advent Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 4th Sunday of Advent Year C Young, blossoming and… pregnant! Luke 1: 39-55 ‘You’re going to have a baby, Mary! Yes, I know you’re not married, But you’re going to have a baby! And Elizabeth’s going to have a baby too!... Created by david Middleton on behalf of LWPT (…
Reflection on Proverbs 31: 10-31
Reflection on Proverbs 31: 10-31
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection on Proverbs 31: 10-31 ‘A good woman is hard to find,’ they say. I’m not surprised, if you look at that picture they paint in Proverbs. It sets feminism back into the Dark Ages and even caps Shirley Conran’s Superwoman for imposing impossible demands on a woman’s time a…
Where is Jesus, where is Mary
Where is Jesus, where is Mary
by Andrew Pratt
Where is Jesus, where is Mary, where is Joseph in this crowd, here where commerce feeds subversion, elevates the rich and proud. Mother, father and, and a baby, shoved by bureaucratic creeds, soon to cross a nation's borders, crowds will denigrate their needs. Lasers beaming, neo…
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