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Magi - like butterflies emerging in the cold
Magi - like butterflies emerging in the cold
by Andrew Pratt
Epiphany year A Matthew 2: 1-12 Hymn: Magi – Like butterflies emerging in the cold Like butterflies emerging in the cold, incongruous strangers punctuate this birth; while snow and frosted windows paint the scene and God in human flesh has come to birth... Andrew Pratt (born 1…
Meditation-Is it any wonder
Meditation-Is it any wonder
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation: Is it any wonder? Is it any wonder that those women were afraid? Surely we would have been, too? They had only gone to the tomb to take their special spices and oils for the ritual anointing of the body of their special friend – a task that was very common in those da…
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Christmas Shopping Prayer
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Christmas Shopping Prayer
by SPCK - Ian Black
Christmas Shopping Prayer Prayers for All Occasions God of generous love, you give freely of yourself in your Son Jesus Christ. Bless us as we choose gifts as tokens of love and affection. Free us from losing the purpose in the bags and wrappings... Taken from Prayers for All Occ…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on Luke 24: 13-35 Gaze in your memory on the many times in your life you’ve met with a stranger. Remember the anxious feelings – the butterflies in your stomach, or the fear of embarrassment. You go to a new school, where you don’t k…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 15 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 15 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 15 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 15: (14-20) 21-28 Gaze on this woman. She is in great distress, and this gives her the courage to defy convention. Expecting to be rebuffed, she’s got nothing to lose, so she may as well try. And at first, her fears are confirmed, as the d…
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 Psalm 50 Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Luke 12:32-40 “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 1:1). Faith is precious because it enables us to hope and trust in God even when – to …
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 10 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 10 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 10 Luke 10: 25-37 Gaze on the victim in this story, the traveller who has been mugged and beaten and left in a stinking alleyway, bleeding and sore, miles from home. Imagine you are that victim. Someone comes near and hears your moans. He peers down at you...
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