Feasting on the Word

Diocesan Weekly Sermon Acts 2.14a, 22-32 As child and a young teenager, I loved reading books. I regularly cycled a couple of miles into town to get books from the local library and I devoured them. Then came the formal study of English literature for GSCE and my love of reading was crushed. I confess…

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Easter Sunday

Happy Easter to you, your family and your friends! Our Lord is risen! Rabbouni!: ‘Whom are you looking for?’ Reading John 20: 11-18 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had…

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Holy Saturday

Loss: ‘Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate for the body of Jesus’ Reading John 19: 38-end After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he…

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Good Friday Reflection

Cost: ‘You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too are you?’ Reading John 18: 18 and 25b-27. Now the slaves and the police had made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it and warming themselves. Peter also was standing with them and warming himself. They asked him, “You are not…

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