Easter III – Sorrow turned to Joy

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…

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Easter Day – Resurrection Certainty

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…

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Maundy Thursday – With desire have I desired

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,…

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Palm Sunday – Have this mind in 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…

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Fifth Sunday in Lent – Inward Transformation

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.…

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Third Sunday in Lent – Walking in Light

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…

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Second Sunday in Lent – Your Sanctification

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…

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Second Sunday in Epiphany – The Mystical Marriage

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Sunday next before Advent – Christ our Prophet, Priest & King

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…

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Trinity 23 – Perfecting us Body and Soul

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…

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