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LWPT Meditations - Palm Sunday
LWPT Meditations - Palm Sunday
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Palm Sunday In JRR Tolkein’s trilogy, “The Lord of the Rings”, he tells the story of a great struggle against evil. In part, it is the story of a king who must prove himself and fight for his kingdom at great personal cost. The final volume – “The Return of the King…
LWPT Meditations - Sunday Before Advent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Sunday Before Advent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Sunday before advent Year A Ezekiel 34: 11-16, 20-24 Psalm 95 or 100 Ephesians 1: 15-23 Matthew 25: 31-46 There is a message of intense intimacy, and some startling surprises, in the Bible readings for this week. Ezekiel paints an amazingly tender portrait of the Lor…
LWPT Meditations - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
LWPT Meditations - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 2nd Samuel 1: 1, 17-27 Psalm 130 2nd Corinthians 8: 7-15 Mark 5: 21-43 During his earthly life, Jesus wielded both power and compassion in perfect tension. Power and compassion are two qualities which work well in combination; in f…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B Song 2: 8-13 Psalm 45: 1-2, 6-9 James 1:17-27 Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be on the front cover of “Hello” magazine; to see yourself described as “stunning”, “glittering”, “wowing the c…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 23rdSunday in Ordinary Time Year B Mark 7 v 24-37 There is a curiously touching detail in the story of the healing of the deaf and mute man in Mark’s gospel (7 v 31-37). The man had been deaf for many years (probably from birth since he could “hardly talk”) and ther…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 Psalm 66:1-12 2nd Timothy 2:8-15 Luke 17:11-19 It is sometimes trials and difficulties that draw us closer to God, or that are instrumental in our salvation. Of the ten lepers whom Jesus healed of their terrible di…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Advent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Advent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Second Sunday of Advent Yr A Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 The Advent Bible readings contain a lot of promises. Isaiah 11:1 foretells a descendent (“a shoot”) from Jesse, the father of King David. As a king’s heir he too will reign…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Second Sunday Ordinary Time Yr A Isaiah 49:1-7 Psalm 40:1-11 John 1:29-42 There is the shock of sudden recognition in the gospel reading today. It is an experience some of us have, perhaps once in a lifetime, when we see in someone or in an event, the fulfilment of …
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Isaiah 9:1-4 Psalm 27:1, 4-9 Matthew 4:12-23 We almost never read Isaiah chapter 8, and it is not in today’s readings. However, it is worth looking at this chapter before reading the lectionary passage from Isaiah 9, in order to un…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Fourth Sunday of Advent Yr A Isaiah 7:10-16 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew 1:18-25 Matthew liked to refer to the prophets, and, although he had to stretch one or two prophecies in order to make them fit, he was zealous in proving that Jesus’ birth had long been foretold by th…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 4th Sunday of Advent Year C Micah 5: 2-5a Luke 1: 46b-55 Hebrews 10: 5-10 Luke 1: 39-45 The coming of Jesus, the awaited Messiah, was the fulfilment of a multitude of prophecies. Long ages before his birth in Bethlehem, God inspired his prophets to proclaim, sometime…
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 6th Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 10: 44-48 Psalm 98 1 John 5: 1-6 John 15: 9-17 “They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” (Acts 10 v 47). The first gentile believers were not like the Jewish Christians who had a life-long knowledge of the scriptures. Nor …
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation –Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 7:55-60 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 1st Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 If we have ever felt that Jesus’ words to the Pharisees were harsh, we can see them justified in the account of the death of Stephen. Stephen – called to account for his belie…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday of Christmas - Year A
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday of Christmas - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – First Sunday of Christmas Yr A Isaiah 63:7-9 Psalm 148 Hebrews 2:10-18 Matthew 2:13-23 After Christmas we have to return to reality, back from snowy landscapes peopled by shepherds and wise men, back from the glowing stable – far cleaner and more comfortable than an…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – First Sunday in Lent Year A Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 Psalm 32 Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11 As Lent starts, we have a reminder of the cause of our sickness and of its remedy. The human sickness is sin – we all suffer from it. Jesus is the cure... Created by Susan Thorn…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Lent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Lent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Third Sunday in Lent Year A Exodus 17:1-7 Psalm 95 Romans 5:1-11 John 4:5-42 As we move closer to Good Friday and Easter, our readings focus more intensely on the purpose of Jesus’ life on earth, on his interaction with individuals and on how our salvation was achiev…
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - Trinity Sunday Year B Isaiah 6: 1-8 Psalm 29 Romans 8: 12-17 John 3: 1-17 "Your majesty, I can but bow; I lay my all before you now." Those words from song 18 in "Singing the Faith" epitomise our only possible response in the face of the awesome presence of Almighty …
LWPT Meditations - Sunday before Lent - Year B