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LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Matthew 18: 21-35 Romans 14: 1-12 Today’s readings from Matthew (18 v 21-35) and Romans (14 v 1-12) have a great deal to say about the way we Christians behave towards others, including fellow believers. Forgiveness first; forgivenes…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Matthew 18: 15-20 Our passage from Matthew 18 v 15-20 is embedded in a chapter that deals with humility, not causing others to sin, God’s love for the lost, and the serious consequences of being unmerciful. It is a chapter about the …
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 22ndSunday in Ordinary Time Year A Romans 12: 9-21 In our passage from Romans, this week, Paul is continuing his discourse on putting righteousness into practice within the Church and the wider world. He makes three further main points: Love Bear up under persecution…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Exodus 32: 1-14 Psalm 106: 1-6, 19-23 Matthew 22: 1-14 I was seven years old when I first heard the story of the golden calf (Exodus 32 v 1-14). It was not until I was grown up, however, and read the account for myself in the Bible, …
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-eigth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-eigth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 28thSunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Job 23: 1-9, 16-17 Psalm 22: 1-15 Hebrews 4: 12-16 Mark 10: 17-31 Almost every Christian will have had the experience of not being able to find God; nothing stirs in our hearts, our prayers bounce back unheard, life feels meaningless a…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 27thSunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Job 1: 1, 2: 1-10 Psalm 26 Hebrews 1: 1-4, 2: 5-12 Mark 10: 2-16 Let us not waste time wondering if Job ever existed, and - if so – when? The story of Job, whether history or fable, is in our Bible to teach us an important lesson: th…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 3rd Sunday in Lent Year C Isaiah 55:1-9 Psalm 63:1-8 1st Corinthians 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 There is comfort, together with two warnings, in today’s Bible passages. That God loves his children is abundantly clear. He invites them freely to feast with him (Isaiah 55:1-2…
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 1st Samuel 1 v 4-20 1st Samuel 2 v 1-10 Hebrews 10 v 11-14, 19-25 Mark 13 v 1-8 Among the outworkings of God’s plan for our salvation, is the story of a woman longing for a baby and of her answered prayers. The child who was born t…
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B Psalm 127 Mark 12: 38-44 I cannot bear to watch the news, to see those images of war and death; grieving women, frightened children, devastation, overflowing hospitals, pain and fear. I listen, though, and read of Syria, Afghanista…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 4th Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 4: 5-12 Psalm 23 1st John 3: 16-24 John 10: 11-18 We don’t see shepherds much these days, not in our society. I live in an area where sheep are plentiful, but I am not sure that the man I occasionally see mounted on a quad bike and ch…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 4th Sunday of Easter Year C Psalm 23 Revelation 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 We are so familiar with the story of Jesus as the Good Shepherd that there is a danger that we will miss the deeper implications. I remember a picture on the wall at my Sunday school, showing a blon…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Psalm 71:1-6 1st Corinthians 13:1-13 Luke 4:21-30 We talk a great deal about love. The purpose of fiction is almost always to tell a love story. Love is the theme of most popular songs. Many of us seek love above all other things. …
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 4th Sunday of Advent Year B 2 Samuel 7: 1-11, 16 We are deep into Advent now, yet this is our first hint of Christmas with the announcement to Mary that she is to bear a son named Jesus (Luke 1 v 31). Thus far the lectionary readings have focused more on the second c…
LWPT Meditations - Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19 Psalm 46 Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 Matthew 7:21-29 It is difficult to imagine a catastrophe like the one related in the story of Noah – forty days of torrential rain, the earth flooded for over a year,…
LWPT Meditations - Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 9th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 1st Kings 18:20-21, 30-39 Psalm 96 Galatians 1:1-12 Luke 7:1-10 The story of the centurion’s servant is a well-known account of faith. The centurion must have been a remarkable man to be so concerned for his servant. At a time when …
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B 2 Kings 5: 1-14 Psalm 30 Mark 1: 40-45 It is easy to understand why, in ancient times, leprosy was such a dread disease. It is an illness that has been described as a living death, and it ate away at the flesh, causing loss of sensati…
LWPT Meditations - The Trinity
LWPT Meditations - The Trinity
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - THE TRINITY Greater than the sun in its splendour is our God. In the heavens he has pitched his tent. Like a bridegroom he comes forth from his pavilion, Like a champion rejoicing to run his course (Psalm 19 v 4b-6). He draws up the drops of water which distil as rai…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B