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Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Breathe
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Breathe
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
When we are born, we are born into a relationship with air, with breathing. How closely the words wind, air, life, and spirit are linked in human thought. We are creatures into whom life is breathed. A word we have for inhaling is inspiration. When we are fully inspired, not only…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Be Embodied
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Be Embodied
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
What does it mean to be embodied? Doesn’t it mean to be given form? We have been gifted with a particular body. It is who we are in part—but not the whole story. Form implies content. And when form and content are wedded, an intrinsic grace emerges where beauty is revealed. To ma…
LWPT Meditations - Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 1st Kings 21:1-10, 15-21a Psalm 5:1-8 Galatians 2:15-21 Luke 7:36-8:3 When God, through Jesus, offered grace to sinful people, he was not saying that sin was of no consequence. It is; it cost the life of a sinless saviour. No one who…
LWPT Meditations - Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B 1 Samuel 15: 34-16: 13 Psalm 20 2 Corinthians 5: 6-10, 14-17 Mark 4: 26-34 Just as when a man plants seed and does not understand how it grows (Mark 4 v 27), and just as a tiny mustard seed grows to a plant almost like a tree (Mark 4…
LWPT Meditations - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 2nd Samuel 11: 26-12: 13 Psalm 51: 1-12 Ephesians 4: 1-16 John 6: 24-35 We can usually see what is wrong with other people. David saw immediately the injustice committed by the rich man in the story that Nathan related. What he did…
LWPT Meditations - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Psalm 107:1-9, 43 Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 12:13-21 If the parable of the Rich Fool has ever been relevant before, it is certainly painfully relevant now that we are in the midst of a financial crisis. Do you remember the fall of North…
LWPT Meditations - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43 In the parable of the wheat and the weeds (Matthew 13 v 24-30, 23-24) an enemy sowed weeds amongst the wheat of a farmer’s crop. It is generally believed that the weeds referred to are darnel – a poisonous gr…
LWPT Meditations - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Amos 8:1-12 Colossians 1:15-28 Luke 10:38-42 We have almost forgotten that Christianity is a radical phenomenon. In the UK – even in our present pluralistic society – Church and State are closely linked. On national occasions we are …
LWPT Meditations - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A The story of the feeding of the five thousand is one of the best known in the Bible; it is recorded in each of the gospels. It all began because Jesus wanted some peace and quiet after he heard of the violent death of his cousin, Joh…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – First Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Isaiah 43:1-7 Psalm 29 Acts 8:14-17 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 When the Holy Spirit descended on the Lord Jesus, something new began. Worshippers of Almighty God already knew about his Spirit. It was the Spirit who had hovered over the w…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday of Advent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday of Advent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – First Sunday of Advent Year C Jeremiah 33: 14-16 Psalm 25: 1-10 1st Thessalonians 3: 9-13 Luke 21: 25-36 When I saw a man with a sandwich board bearing the words, “the end of the world is nigh”, I guessed he was going to a fancy dress party ... until I saw him …
LWPT Meditations - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 1st Kings 2: 10-12 and 3 v 3-14 Psalm 111 Ephesians 5: 15-20 John 6: 51-58 It was almost like a fairy story; God told Solomon to ask for whatever he wanted (1st Kings 3 v 5) but, contrary to most fairy stories, it didn’t go wrong.…
LWPT Meditations - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Genesis 45: 1-15 The story of Joseph is an important one, taking up thirteen of the fifty chapters of Genesis - roughly a quarter. It is easy to overlook as a children’s tale, but it teaches some profound truths. Its purpose is mainl…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Matthew 20: 1-16 The parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20 v 1-16) addresses a very common and understandable human reaction to the gospel; it is not fair. What was going on in this vineyard was certainly unfair. Some me…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation –2nd Sunday in Lent Year C Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:17- 4:1 Luke 13:31-35 In the Old Testament, we come across people doing things very differently from what we do both in daily life and in worship – offering animals (Leviticus 1:1-17), pouring oil…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 29thSunday in Ordinary Time Year B Job 38 v 1-7 Psalm 104 v 1-9, 24, 35c Hebrews 5 v 1-10 Mark 10 v 35-45 It was towards the end of Jesus’ earthly ministry, and his disciples were still arguing about greatness. James and John thought they were the greatest, and asked …
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