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LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 2nd Sunday of Easter Year C Acts 5:27-32 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 John 20:19-31 We call him “Doubting Thomas” for a single mistake that he made. Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, was not there when the Lord appeared to the rest of them after his resurrection…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year B 1st John 1: 1-2:2 John 20: 19-31 Apart from Judas Iscariot, the betrayer, Thomas is the most notorious of Jesus’ disciples. He is known universally as “Doubting Thomas”. I wonder how many of us sympathise with Thomas, or even identify with…
LWPT Meditations - Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 30thSunday in Ordinary Time Year B Job 42 v 1-6, 10-17 Psalm 34 v 1-8 Hebrews 7 v 23-28 Mark 10 v 46-52 If, like Job, we have patiently endured and have read our way through the entire book with its long complaints, discourses and arguments, we finally reach the reso…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C Acts 9:1-6 Psalm 30 Revelation 5:11-14 John 21:1-9 God is great at reversals; he can change disaster into rejoicing, mourning into gladness, death into life. Many of the Old Testament stories tell of eleventh-hour escapes, or of impossibl…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Nehemiah 8 v 1-3, 5-6, 8-10 Psalm 19 Luke 4 v 14-21 God’s Word is “living and active” (Hebrews 4:12) if we allow it to work in our lives. For those of us whose Bible-reading has become a duty rather than a joy, for those who “tun…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 5th Sunday in Lent Year C Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 126 Philippians 3;4b-14 John 12:1-8 Jesus anointed for burial by Mary Our God makes impossible things happen; this is the message of the lectionary readings for today. For the nation of Judah in captivity in Babylon, Go…
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Easter Day Year C Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1st Corinthians 15:19-26 Luke 24:1-12 When Luke wrote his gospel, he had in mind that Jesus had been a man, living on this earth like any other human, and he wrote to make the good news available and accessible to …
LWPT Meditations - Remembrance Sunday - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Remembrance Sunday - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Remembrance Sunday Yr C Micah 4:1-8 Psalm 46 Revelation 22:1-5 Matthew 5:1-12 An army recruitment poster from a few decades ago read,“Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people”. A comedian added the words“... and kill them”. For decades, young people hav…
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 17:22-31 Psalm 66:8-20 1st Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter 3:15). This was Peter’s admonition to the members of the e…
LWPT Meditations - Sunday Before Advent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Sunday Before Advent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Sunday Before Advent Yr C Jeremiah 23:1-6 Luke 1:68-79 Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43 I once saw a drama in church in which two angels were waiting in heaven for the first person to benefit from Christ’s sacrifice. The crucifixion was taking place, and the angels …
LWPT Meditations - Sunday Before Advent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Sunday Before Advent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- Sunday before Advent Year B 2nd Samuel 23 v 1-7 Psalm 132 v 1-12 Revelation 1 v 4b-8 John 18 v 33-37 “When one rules in the fear of God, when he rules over men in righteousness, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness aft…
LWPT Meditations - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Amos 7:7-17 Psalm 82 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 When the nation of Israel, God’s chosen people, began to slip into apostasy, it was divided into a northern kingdom – still called Israel – and a southern kingdom called Judah. Jud…
LWPT Meditations - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
LWPT Meditations - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 2nd Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20 Galatians 5:1, 13-25 Luke 9:51-62 It is not often that we consider the “hard sayings” of Christ, but in our gospel reading we come face to face with some of the harshest words that Jesus spok…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Genesis 1: 1-5 Psalm 29 Acts 19: 1-7 Mark 1: 4-11 There is no getting away from the Holy Spirit in the readings for today. He is there at the beginning of the creation, brooding over the waters, bringing light from darkness, day from …
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Advent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Advent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 1st Sunday of advent Year B 1 Corinthians: 7-8 Mark 13: 24-37 We cannot imagine the glorious things that lie ahead for us, and even the Bible is sparing in descriptions. There are passages that speak of peace and plenty, safety and an end to sorrow, but these are alw…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Lent Year C Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 Romans 10:8b-13 Luke 4:1-13 In the lectionary readings for today we have God’s promise that when we call upon him he will answer us. This was impressed upon the Israelites after they left Egypt and were…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 Philemon 1-21 Luke 14:25-33 One does not think of the apostle Paul as being very personally involved with those he taught or of having much of a sense of humour, but both are demonstrated in his letter to Philemo…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C