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...
The world closes in on me somehow this morning. I find myself looking at the readings blankly. I suppose, as I read Ezekiel (18:21-28) That this is because of...
Repentance: We're all familiar with the idea of contrition, most of us make at least a cursory examen of our daily activities. Sometimes our grief and desire...
I'm used, I suppose, when approaching today's gospel, to some kind of internal review of the ancient oriental court, with the imagry of the Great Man reclining...
"But his brothers, seeing how his father loved him more than all his other sons, came to hate him so much that they could not say a civil word to him." I...
Today's readings: Ezekiel 47:1-9. 12 Saint John 5:1-3. 5-16 Responsorial Psalm 45::2-3.5-6.8-9 Some years ago, when the internet was first introduced to this...
Today's readings: Isaiah 49:8-15 Saint John 5:17-30 Psalm 144:8-9. 13-14. 17-18 But Zion was saying "The Lord has abandoned me, the Lord has forgotten me!" ...
Today's Reading Numbers 21:4-9 Psalm 101:2-3. 16-21. John 8:21-30 I suggested last night that we should in all sincerity add a particular person who has been a...
Today's Readings Daniel: 3:14-20. 24-25. 28 John 8:31-42 "I can see four men walking about freely in the heart of the fire without coming to any harm. And the...
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