Posts by David Phillips
Ascension Chevetogne Retreat
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us 6pm Friday 27 September to 2pm Sunday 29 September We offer our first weekend retreat together at the beautiful Chevetogne Monastery in Belgium. Its purpose is threefold: a retreat from busy-ness to have time for rest, for silence, and recreation by God in…
Read MoreTrinity 6 – A Higher Way than Wrath
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us The First Mourning (Cain and Abel), William-Adolphe Boughereau, 1888 Romans 6:3-11 St Matthew 5:20-26 You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not kill; and whoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgement. But…
Read MoreTrinity 4 – Vainglory or True Glory?
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us The Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568 Romans 8.18-23 St Luke 6.36-42 I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us. [Rom 8:20] The sufferings…
Read MoreTrinity 2 – Fear of God is good
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us 1 John 3:13-24 St Luke 14:16-24 The fear of the Lord is clean, and endures forever. Ps 19:9 I have spoken to you about how these first few Sundays are an introduction to the rest of the Trinity season, which is…
Read MoreThe Soul and its Virtues and Vices
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us The Soul and its Virtues and Vices Anatomy of the Soul To understand the passions and the virtues and vices of the soul it is helpful to understand a basic “anatomy” of the soul. The soul is not a body and so it…
Read MoreTrinity 1 – It’s all about love
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us 1 John4:7-end St Luke 16:19-end Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us. [l Jn 4:8-1O] We are beginning Trinity season, the last half of the Church year. And it has been described as being about our…
Read MoreTrinity Sunday – The End and the Beginning
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us Revelation 4:1-11 St John 3:1-15 AFTER this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up here, and I will show…
Read MoreRogation – Ask in my Name
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us James 1:22-27 St John 16:23-33 “Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. … ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. ” In the ancient Church Calendar, today is our last…
Read MoreEaster 3 – Sorrow and Joy
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us 1 Peter 2:11-17 St John 16:16-22 You have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. We are continuing in this season of Easter. It has now…
Read MoreEaster 2 – The Good Shepherd
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsLeadershipAbout UsContact Us 1 Peter 2:19-25 St John 10:11-16 You were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. This morning, in our readings we are being compared with sheep. And it is a certain characteristic of…
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