Meditations of My Heart Theme for the Week: Our Lives Sentence O Taste and See, how gracious the Lord Is; happy are those who find refuge in the Most High. ...
Luk 17:7-10 "Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at...
Dear Ones, Luk 19:11-27 (11) As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the...
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Dear Ones, Luk 19:45-48 And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, (46) saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of...
Dear Ones, Luke 21: 1-4 Luk 21:1-4 He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury; (2) and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins....
Dear Meditations, Almighty God, help us to look forward to the glory of the birth of Christ our Saviour: his coming is proclaimed joyfully to the ends of the...
January 1 The Octave of Christmas, and Solemnity of the Sacred name. The Old Testament reading from the book of Numbers "They are to call down my name on the...
Thank you so very much for this meditation. I needed it so very much, right now, this evening. It gave words and direction and answer to the grappling of my...
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for...
I found myself struck, this morning, as I have been before, by these words in the reading from Saint John's first letter.. "we ourselves saw" and "we testify"...
"We accept the testimony of human witnesses, but God's testimony is much greater.." This from Saint John, who lived so closely with Our Lord Jesus that he not...
Just a note to say that fo Orthodox Christians, Epiphany commemorates this event, from today's daily reading: It happened in those days that Jesus came from...
"God did not appont angels to be rulers of the world to come" Our week began with the celebration of Jesus' Baptism. As He was sent out into the wilderness to...
"Since all the children share the same blood and flesh, Jesus too shared equally in it, It was essential that he should in this way become completely like his...
"Be careful: cries the writer to the Hebrews passage for friday last: 'the promise of reaching the place of rest God had for the Israelites still holds good,...
King of righteousness, King of peace. no father, no mother, no ancestry, and his life had no beginning or ending. He remains a priest for ever. The figure of...
Mercy and faithfulness have met ! cries the psalmist this morning. The words thunder in my mind as I consider the first reading from the book of Hebrews. There...
For some time I sat with yesterday's passage from the Letter to the Hebrews, thinking to myself that really, the writer leaves us nothing to say, and no more...
"Through the blood of Jesus we have the right to enter the sanctuary." I wonder how it felt to be Jewish, to have been, throughout an entire life time, somehow...
"There is not time for me to give an account of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, or of David, Samuel, and the prophets.. " So spoke the writer of Hebrews in...
"Always be wanting peace with all people, and the holiness without which no one can ever see the Lord. " This sentence is so like part of the Rule which we've...
My mind is awash with thoughts. The old testament runs through my mind. God creates swarming creatures for the oceans, and crawling creatures for the earth,...
Yesterday, in the gospel, they wanted a sign - and so, I suspect, did I. Time is running out on so many things, on the hungry in Africa and on the increasingly...
We wanted a sign. So did Noah. The church this morning looks like an upturned ark, warm wood surrounds us as we begin our morning's devotions. The rain is...
For all the tenderness of the Lord, still if we are to build something, or prepare for a war, we must cost it out. Now in our preparations for Lent - we are...
The lovers of your law have great peace, O Lord What is there to say about today's readings, except that they comfort me? That there is a sense in which the...
"A man multiplies offerings by keeping the law" I sit here this morning feeling the pressure of what is not done, to the extent that it is almost physically...
Temptation It struck me on Sunday morning that one thing the great fast does is to reframe our ideas of what is 'necessary'. Of course, in New Zealand there is...