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Reflection for Sunday, 30th January
Last week’s gospel reading gave us an insight into Jesus’s preaching in the synagogue in Nazareth,...
Reflection for Sunday, 23rd January
Reflection on Luke 4: 14-21 Matthew and Luke both tell the story of Jesus, and both give more...
Reflection for Sunday, 16th January
The Wedding at Cana (John 2: 1-11) The first “sign” that John records, in his gospel, is the...
Reflection for 9th January
The Teaching of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus Today we remember the baptism of Jesus...
Reflection for 2nd January
“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” – a sentence many of us have heard often; this is how...
Reflection for 25th and 26th December
Isaiah 9: 2-7 This passage is one that is familiar to us at this time of year. We hear it read...
Reflection for Sunday 19th December
The fourth Sunday of Advent takes us back to the imminent birth of Jesus - to the angel coming to...
Reflection for Sunday 12th December
Last week Luke told us how John the Baptist “arrived” preaching and offering a baptism of...
Reflection for Sunday 5th December
Advent readings can feel a bit strange in their chronology; there is the preparation for the birth...
Reflection for Sunday 21st Nov
When should you start getting ready for Christmas? Good question and lots of answers. A...
Reflection for Sunday 14th Nov
REFLECTION Micah speaks of a time when there will be peace and security for all, when swords and...
Reflection for Sunday 7th Nov
Gospel: Mark 12: 38-44 As Jesus taught, he said, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to walk...
Cop 26 – Seeking the Common Good
With COP26 taking place and the subject of climate change at the fore-front of everyone’s thinking...
Cop 26 – Coppices and Copses
On the hills above our parishes are the moors, peaty, boggy moors “no good for anything much” some...
Cop 26 – good cop, bad cop
In the old westerns the good cowboys wore white hats and the baddies were in black hats – so it...
Cop 26 – Cop out or Co-operate
1000 years ago – so the story goes – King Canute tried to stop the rising tide: did the King have...
Reflection for Sunday 31st Oct
All Saints We should celebrate All Saints at the beginning of November, though the evening of All...
Reflection for Sunday 24th Oct
The story of Bartimaeus in the Gospel of Mark is the final story we hear of Jesus being on his way...
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