He sat at table with his friends, friends who in a few short hours were to betray him, sell him down the river, swear they never knew him. He sat at table with...
you glory is left behind, hanging in the closet gathering Adam and Eve's dust, as you put on humility's shirt (stained with grace) that's been lying crumpled...
come Friday palms were stuffed into trash cans for the post-Passover pick-up; nails were strewn in the path of the cross-bearer; little kids stopped their...
It was Friday. He died young. Too young. But then what can you expect HE HAD ENEMIES. They wanted to be rid of him. They wanted things to stay the same. They...
come Saturday, Mary, MM, and Sally were rearranging the furniture and cleaning up the mess from Friday's wake; the guys, who found their loss uneased no matter...
Not the good Shepherd. It seems strange to pursue this theme of the Shepherd in the midst of the Easter Season, with its triumphal themes of resurrection,...
[The most holy name of Mary] 1 Corinthians 16-19 22-27 Psalm 84 (83): 3-6, 12 (v2) "Alleluia, alleliua! Your word is truth, O Lord, consecrate us in the truth....
Oh my goodness, Alys ... how wonderful it is to hear your voice. ... From: Alys Thorpe To: adailyquiet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 7:33 AM...
A few days ago I received an e-mail from an Orthodox Priest. I've known him for a while, but was very struck by what he had to say. "Orissa Burning. The...
31 January Saint John Bosco Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 Mark 4:36-41 There's a story I've picked up from somewhere, about an elderly monk who spent much of his time...
Do away with the yoke, the clenched fist, the wicked word. * * * Give your bread to the hungry, relief to the oppressed * * * Your light will rise in the...
There's a lovely equanimity in the Leviticus passage, which is one of my favourites, and has been since I first lighted on it some years ago. I was working in...
I suppose that there isn't one person who doesn't cringe at trying to say anything at all about today's Gospel. [Matthew 6:7-15] We all know these words so...
I think I know what the 'sign of Jonah' might be. It's the three days in the tummy of the whale, after which he is returned to dry land, and does what God...
"Father, without you we can do nothing By your Spirit help us to know what is right and to be eager in doing your will. " I have to admire Queen Esther. Her...
*""What we are praying will affect more than simply ourselves......... "" ""But He will teach me to see what I am really asking, I will find what I am really...
'Am I likely to take pleasure in the death of a wicked person - it is the Lord who speaks - and not prefer to see him renounce his wickedness and live? '...
One of the first Sunday School lessons I ever remember was that, to be a Christian we had to begin by being separate from the world. It must have made a...
I'm feeling that perhaps it is time for the Meditations of my heart to take a new direction, that they may be rather tired after all these years and maybe I'm...
John 5:1-3,5-16 'Sir, I have no one to help me.' At this moment I feel so sorry for the man. Thirty-eight years, and no one to care enough to sit with him or...
The Annunciation of the Lord [Luke 1: 26-38] A word or two about dedication, as we open the New Testament Reading today: [Hebrews 10:4-10]. The writer of...
The Lord is our delight: come, bless his name. Dear Lord, My attention has caught on some lovely things in the readings today, From Terce: The Lord carried...
Matthew 5:38-42 This is one of those passages. We know these words so well, as well as we know 'Sell all that you have and give to the poor", but they are so...
Appropriation Matthew 7:6,12-14 The old man and his dog walked for an hour each day, but when that became too far for the dog, his human friend was very...
Genesis 41:55-57,42:5-7,17-24 Matthew 10:1-7 How wonderful of God, I think, to make Joseph's brothers sin the hinge of their own salvation - not to mention, of...
Gospel Matthew 10:34-11:1 Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come...
The Jesus Prayer has nourished generations of souls in a journey that is known as the prayer of the heart. A few weeks ago the preacher took this Gospel story...
The Kingdom of heaven is like: Even as a child I just knew that what Jesus was saying when He spoke of the pearl and the treasure that He was saying that we...
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