Pentecost – Reconstructing Babel

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565 AD Acts 2:1-11       St John 14:15-27   Suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind.   Today we celebrate the birthday of the Church.  Gefeliciteerd! That first…

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Sunday after Ascension – Only Holy Sees Holy

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Ascension of Christ and Noli me tangere, c. 400 AD, ivory, Milan or Rome 1 St Peter 4:7-10       St John 15:26f   Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? The King of glory shall come in. This morning in the…

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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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Deanery Day Saturday 24 May 2025

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us There will be a Deanery Day on the 24th May for Anglican chaplaincies in the Netherlands.  It will be at the Church of St. John and St. Philip in The Hague (Ary van der Spuyweg 1, 2585 JA Den Haag). The guest…

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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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