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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 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 - Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 2nd Kings 5:1-14 Galatians 6:7-16 Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 When Paul wrote to the Galatians, it was with a message of God’s grace (2:16,21; 3:14,18 etc). He was almost desperate that his readers should not be misled into keeping the laws …
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
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Hebrews 12:18-29 Luke 13:10-17 The author of the letter to the Hebrews is one of the most impassioned writers in the Bible. He is so insistent about his message that one can envisage him as a lapel-grabber, and this week’s passage in…
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