Two feasts

Matthew 14:13-21 I’ve adopted a sort of ‘oh, what on Earth now’ attitude to the BBC News notifications I get on my phone. It feels endless.We are grieving loved ones, lost time, missed opportunities, life-changing setbacks, profound injustice.Everything is exhausting, overwhelming – where are our resources to continue suchan uphill tread, and what would be…

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The Kingdom of Heaven

Gospel Reading Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 People of any age can have a dream which may then develop into an ambition – and ambitions vary enormously. Some people have an ambition to win the lottery or, somehow or other, become a millionaire. Others have the ambition to reach the top of their chosen field. It’s this…

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Hope at all Times

Romans 8:12-25 Slowly but surely, we have found ourselves coming out of lockdown, due to the pandemic easing somewhat. We’ve gone from two metres apart to one metre and from no pubs, hairdressers or barbers to all of them being open again and enjoyed by thirsty drinkers and desperate women and men eager to get…

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Parable of the Sower

It hasn’t been much of a July for gardening. In the Knuzden vicarage garden, plants which were blooming in June are now all wet, battered and bruised. Lack of sunshine, too much heavy rain, a proliferation of our old friends the slugs have all taken their toll. Never mind – there’s always next year! Today’s…

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My yoke is easy and my burden is light

Epistle Romans 7:15-25a Gospel Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 We know from the gospels that Jesus loved children – he often held them up as examples of how things should really be. ‘Let the little ones come to me, for of such if the Kingdom of heaven’. Unless you become like children you shall not enter the…

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