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Wednesday 20 April
Acts 12:24-13:5; Ps 67; John 12:44-50 Free to say ‘yes’ The early communities of disciples were constantly changing and growing. Our own faith communities today are also dynamic and that can be challenging. Change – in terms of personnel and ways of doing things – can be difficult. The Holy Spirit, as with the church […]
Tuesday 10 November
St Leo the Great Ps 34; Wisdom 2:23-3:9; Luke 17:7-10 Self sacrifice The servant who had finished a hard day’s labour, rather than rest, was ordered to prepare a meal for the master. It seems unfair on the servant who no doubt is hungry. But the faithful servant does what the master requests. Are there […]
Monday 2 November
Commemoration of the Faithful Departed Psalm 23:1- 6; Romans 5:5-11 or Romans 6:3-9; John 6:37-40 Blessed are they who mourn All Souls’ Day is the time for us to recall and pray for family, friends, neighbours, etc who have passed away. The Sisters at my convent school encouraged us to say a prayer in the […]
Prayerful Churches: Wells Cathedral
Continuing on from Buckfast Abbey (see July issue), our bus tour took us to Wells Cathedral (about 25 km south of Bristol) for our lunch stop. Our first glimpse of Wells Cathedral was across a green, and it was truly impressive. Built in an early gothic style, with square towers rather than spires, it stood […]
Can You Bear It?
Can you Bear It? Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while a student nurse, I found an elderly gentleman, already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital. After a discussion about rules being followed, he […]
An Introduction to the Stories of Luke
About 30 CE on the feast of Shavuot, the annual Jewish festival celebrating the disclosure of God’s Law to Moses on Mt Sinai, Peter became the first person to address a Jewish crowd to tell them the good news of Jesus the Christ. This feast is celebrated fifty days after Passover and often referred to […]
This Month’s Cover
Side altar from St Martin’s Church, Bamberg, Germany. The church is being renovated, and the side altar is temporarily being used as the main altar. The sculptor is unattributed. Photographs Glen McCullough
June
Bishop of Auckland, Patrick Dunn, has called for a full scale review of Maori education. When approached by the New Zealand Herald about the future of Hato Petera College, he said the church had serious concerns about the falling roll at the college – which is now below 100 – and wanted to do a […]
Reading a Church
Part 2: The Entrance When you step through the doorway of a church you are leaving the outer-world behind and entering an inner world. The outside world is a fair place abounding in life and activity, but also a place with a mingling of the base and ugly. It is a sort of market place, […]
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