Tag Archive for ‘suffering’
Wednesday 5 September
1 Corinthians 3:1-9, Ps 33, Luke 4:38-44 Jesus heals us “All who had friends suffering from diseases of one kind or another brought them to him, and laying his hands on each, he cured them.” We have a tradition of intercessory prayer. Who are the people we want to bring to Jesus for healing? Tell […]
Monday 23 July
Micah 6:1-4, 6-8, Ps50, Matthew 12:38-42 What does the Lord ask of you? Micah tells us the answer today ‘this is what the Lord asks of you, only this, to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God.’ It sounds simple, and it is, but simplicity doesn’t mean easy. ‘To act […]
Thursday 19 July
Isaiah 26:7-19, Ps.102, Matthew 11:28-30 My burden is light It doesn’t always feel light! When I look back on the last eighteen months of earthquakes, difficulties and uncertainties I sometimes wonder how I lived through it, even knowing many people had it much worse. Yet constantly, underlying all the turmoil, there has been that deep […]
Friday 13 July
Hosea 14:2-10, Ps.51, Matthew 10:16-23 No easy promises. Jesus was always honest. He didn’t promise his disciples an easy time, and he doesn’t promise us one either. What he does promise is that we will never have to face our troubles alone. Jesus will never leave us, and his Holy Spirit will always guide us. […]
Wednesday 7 March
Jeremiah 18:18-20 [ER] 18:13-23, Ps.31, Matthew 20:17-28 Drinking life. At a retreat for Youth Workers and Social Workers each person poured into the chalice at the Offertory time a small cup of wine that symbolised their lives and the lives of all the people they worked with. We all drank the pain, the hope, the […]
The Cross and the Recliner
“The Pieta: the artistic depiction of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ after His body is taken down from the cross. The most famous is Michelangelo’s marble statue in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.” […]
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