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Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 6 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 6 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 6 Luke 7: 36- 8: 3 Gaze at the dinner party and all the guests reclining on couches, facing the table, their legs stretched out behind them. This is how it is that the woman can stand behind Jesus at his feet, bathe them with her tears, dry them with her hair, and smother …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 23 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 23 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 23 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 22: 1-14 Gaze on the one character in this story who has nothing to say: the bridegroom. He’s dressed in all his finery, proud and anxious, for tomorrow is his big day when he’ll meet his bride, possibly for the first time. The banquet is …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 9 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 9 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 9 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 Gaze on these children playing in the marketplace. Children are the same the whole world over, and in every era. Today they would be in the home corner, playing make- believe games. ‘Let’s play weddings,’ says Kelly, who’s …
Still Caring - About the author
Still Caring - About the author
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
About the author Still Caring Christian meditations and prayers When Dorothy M. Stewart’s husband was diagnosed with frontal lobe dementia in 2007, she became his sole full-time carer. Her book, One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers, published by SPCK in 2010, is the fruit of…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Closing
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Closing
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
God is a word we use, and we think we know what it means. But, in truth, God is always far beyond our understanding. We can only know God by unknowing. We can only offer our willingness and our wonder. This kind of constant and open inquiry is an intense intimacy through which we…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - A Stone
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - A Stone
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
We pick up shells and stones on the beach because something about them is pleasing. We leave them on our shelves and windowsills to touch now and then and to enjoy again. But to make something a real presence in our lives we must use it often and get to know it intimately. Many p…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Care of Things
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Care of Things
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
The things we use daily serve our needs, and we in turn must take care of them. When such care is not haphazard, not just getting through chores, but becomes a way to pay attention, we may find we live with things that grow to be luminous for us. From daily use they become full o…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving Nature
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving Nature
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
Under every stone and in every stump we can find burgeoning life. Tiny life swims in a thimble full of water. With eyes that can see, there is unstoppable life in every nook and cranny. God’s joy is expressed in such variety that not even one snowflake will be exactly like anothe…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Easter Day Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Easter Day Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Easter Day - Year A Meditation on Matthew 28: 1-10 Gaze as the women come over the brow of the hill. In the early morning shadows, everything looks bland and blank, bleached of colour. Smell the dewy earth, feel the hem of their skirts damp and smeared with dust. The rocky hillsi…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Palm Sunday Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Palm Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Palm Sunday - Year A The Liturgy of the Palms Meditation on Matthew 21: 1-11 Gaze on the old city of Jerusalem, the narrow lanes choked with shoppers and craftsmen and crowded with pilgrims. Walk past the noisy blacksmiths’ quarter, and wander through the district where they dye …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Trinity Sunday- Year A Meditation on Matthew 28: 16-20 Gaze for the last time on Jesus, for this is his final appearance in Matthew’s Gospel, and the ending is sudden. No protracted goodbye is allowed for the disciples. There is no description of how they met him on the mountain …
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Speak
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Speak
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
We often forget that who we are speaks to others all the time, whether we open our mouths or not. From time to time our being may be silent and still, yet it emanates. It speaks without words. For some this awareness leads to self-consciousness. They feel too exposed, too vulnera…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Pentecost Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Pentecost Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Day of Pentecost- Year A Meditation on John 7: 37-39 Gaze on a river in all its varied stages. At first it is a silent trickle, welling up from a spring, always replenished yet forever hidden. Then the quiet country stream brings delight to children who picnic by its bank and pad…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 8 Year A