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HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Celebrating the birth, Jan Steen, 1664 AD 1 Peter 2:11-17       St John 16:16-22   When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio, 1602 AD Colossians 3:1- 7       St John 20:1-10   Alleluia!  Christ is risen!   Today in our Gospel we heard of the first moments, according to John, of the breaking in of a new reality in…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet 1852-6 Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893 Presented by subscribers 1893 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01394 1 Corinthians 11:17-end       St Luke 23:1-49   With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer. “A new commandment I give to you,…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Philippians 2:5-11       St Matthew 21:1-11       St Matthew 27:1-54 “Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus …who, became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”   It has been a tumultuous week in world politics – the…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Sacrifice of Isaac, Armenian Illuminated Gospel, c. 1455 Hebrews 9:11-15       St John 8:46-59 How much more shall the blood of Christ… purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.   Lent is a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with Jesus.…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Israelites Passing through the Wilderness, Preceded by the Pillar of Light, William West, 1845 Ephesians 5:1-14       St Luke 11:14-26   At one time you were darkness, now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.   Our walk…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Christ and the Canaanite Woman, Juan de Flandes, c. 1500 AD 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8       St Matthew 15:21-28   This is the will of God, your sanctification.   In the season of Lent, we are on a pilgrimage with Jesus to Jerusalem. I…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Wedding at Cana – Nicolas Correa, 1696 AD Holy Baptism and Holy Communion Romans 12:6-16a        St John 2:1-11   “The have no wine…”   The season of Epiphany is about the manifestation of God, or the revealing Sunday by Sunday of who…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Mystical Lamb (detail), Ghent altarpiece, Hubert and Jan van Eyck, 1432 Jeremiah 23:5-8       St John 6:5-14   Jesus lifted up his eyes, and saw a large crowd coming towards him… …And he said, “Have the people sit down.”   Today we…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Tribute Money, Titian, c. 1543–1568 Philippians 3:17-21       St Matthew 22:15-22   For our citizenship is in heaven; and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.   In the Trinity season we are continually climbing a ladder…