Epiphany Evening When Mary was really cold, she gave an angry kick to the frankincense jar (flashy gift, but ultimately useless) and then she saw it – ‘Look what the magi really left us! I can start this fire with what fell behind the caravan’s two-toed feet. ‘Something ordinary is the only way to warm […]
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Reading: one of the 7 biblical accounts of the ‘feeding of the multitude’ from either Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Invitation Christ’s invitation is simple — sit down where you are. You don’t need to run off somewhere else — not a nearby village market or a familiar sanctuary, communion is where you are — […]
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Cross Friday not Good, that strange completely unbiblical, not to speak of theologically incorrect, adjective for the Friday. I will not say or write or pray that torture and killing are ‘good’, though Jesus anticipated it, God worked with it, and the Spirit wasn’t nicknamed ‘Comforter’ for nothing. Calling someone ‘martyr’ is not defining a […]
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Be Thou My Valentine to the tune of Be Thou My Vision, Slane ‘Lyrics of mine when a little Valentine’s Day creeps in…’ Be Thou my Valentine, fill me with love. Help me to reach out with bare hand not glove to each of your children – the far and the near – the ones […]
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