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All Desires Known - Incarnation - Word Made Flesh

by SPCK - Janet Morley

INCARNATION – WORD MADE FLESH Collect John 1.1–14; 1 John 1.1–4 God our beloved, born of a woman’s body, you came that we might look upon you... Christmas Eve/Christmas Day (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - Christ Our Brother Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

CHRIST OUR BROTHER Collect Luke 2.15–21; Galatians 3.28 Christ our brother, in you there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither male nor female... Christmas 1 (B); Proper 7 (C); Holy Name (ABC); Birth of John the Baptist (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published b…

All Desires Known - Eucharistic Prayer for Christmas Eve

by SPCK - Janet Morley

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER FOR CHRISTMAS EVE Eternal Wisdom, we praise you and give you thanks, because you emptied yourself of power and became foolishness for our sake: for on this night you were delivered as one of us, a baby needy and naked, wrapped in a woman’s blood... This prayer …

All Desires Known - Annunciation Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

ANNUNCIATION/NOT AMONG THE IMPRESSIVE Collect Luke 1.2–38; 1 Corinthians 1.26–end O unknown God, whose presence is announced not among the impressive but in obscurity... Advent 4 (BC); Proper 6 (BC); Annunciation (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPC…

All Desires Known - Defender of the Helpless Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

DEFENDER OF THE HELPLESS Collect Matthew 2.13–18; 1 Corinthians 1.2–9 God of the dispossessed, defender of the helpless, you grieve with all the women who weep... Christmas 1 (A); Holy Innocents (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - God Of Community Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

All Desires Known - Incarnation - Fullness of Glory Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

INCARNATION – FULLNESS OF GLORY Collect John 1.14–18 Loving Word of God, you have shown us the fullness of your glory in taking human flesh... Christmas 2 (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

Shopping Mall Nativity 1: Sitting down in Bethlehem

by David Perry

  Shopping Mall Nativity 1: Sitting down in Bethlehem Reflection accompanying image “chair and table” The empty dining chair which is the point of focus is unremarkable, just one of many set out around tables waiting for the influx of Christmas shoppers at lunchtime. Over the nex…

I own the sheep

by Marjorie Dobson

Drama/monologue: I own the sheep! How dare they leave my sheep like that? And in the middle of the night, just at the time when all the wild animals are on the prowl and the sheep need most protection! That’s what I pay them for, isn’t it? That’s why they’re out there in the fiel…

Poem: The Word became

by Marjorie Dobson

Poem: The Word became … Words leap to life and characters spring from the page, when imagination flares and recognition begins and connections are made with our personal reality. As does the original Word clothed in a baby’s flesh,... Continues ©Marjorie Dobson

Toward the Sunrise - Lent Bible Study

by John Birch

Toward the Sunrise - Lent Bible Study

Reflection/poem: Afterwards

by Marjorie Dobson

Reflection / Poem: Afterwards Wait! This cannot be true. This is me, Mary. I’m only a girl. Not even married. You can’t have meant me. You were not real. I’m only dreaming. None of this has happened. And it won’t happen. I can’t be pregnant. Not now. I’m engaged, but not fully ma…

Imagining the Lectionary: Advent begins where we are

by David Perry

Imagining the Lectionary: Advent begins where we are (Advent 2B) Reflection accompanying images “Heros de Lumiere  by Igor Mitoraj”  and “Heros de Lumiere  by Igor Mitoraj monochrome” The Polish sculptor Igor Mitoraj takes the idioms of classical Graeco-Roman sculpture and gives …

Advent as a mirror of possibility and expectation

by David Perry

REFLECTION

Imagining the Lectionary: Come Advent Spirit and enlighten our imaginations (Advent 1B)

by David Perry

Imagining the Lectionary: Come Advent Spirit and enlighten our imaginations (Advent 1B) Reflection accompanying images “street performer with hoop of fire” "Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come" (Mark 13:33) As night falls in the centre of Nottingham a …

Imagining the Lectionary: Sheepish (Christ the King/Reign of Christ A)

by David Perry

Imagining the Lectionary: Sheepish (Christ the King/Reign of Christ A) Reflection accompanying images “I will find my sheep and rescue them” and “I will surely judge between the fat sheep and the scrawny sheep” When it comes to getting the point across in a way that anyone can un…

God, who cares

by Marjorie Dobson

PRAYER

Poem: Come crooners and crows

by Marjorie Dobson

Come crooners and crows: come singers from shows: come tenors and basses from all different places: come tone deaf, or sweet, or those with a beat, sopranos with high notes with frogs in their sore throats. Contraltos join hands with those in rock bands and make up a ring with th…