This week in the Lectionary the readings are all about what it means to be chosen. At the heart of God choosing of us is God’s call for us to serve the world as Christ did—in humility, generosity, grace, inclusivity, and love. God chooses a people to partner with God, to be God’s own treasured...
This Sunday we begin the season of Ordinary Time in which we shift focus from God’s story as taught and revealed in Christ to our story and how we will live as faithful Christ-followers. So, we begin this season the readings for this week, with a focus on faith and righteousness, challenging us to make...
MESSAGE 4 June – TRINITY SUNDAY – Year A tune of Frère Jacques God the Creator, God the Creator, God the Son, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, God the Holy Spirit, Three in One, Three in One. Experience and encounter. When we express our experience and encounter of God and then we name...
THEME: What does Pentecost – the coming of the Spirit mean to you, to us as a community, the Church, the world? Acts: the power given to the Church, responsibility for the Church to come together – unity – that they may be one!! The Spirit is what Jesus gives us! Friendship, companionship with us...
HAPPY EASTER IN YOU! How are we living the resurrection? THEME: Glory – how do we show the presence of God? How do we make visible the presence of God? Revealing God’s glory. Revealing the glory of Jesus through the Holy Spirit. I also love the image of eternal life as ‘knowing’ God. And this...
HAPPY EASTER IN YOU! How are we living the resurrection? This week flows beautifully – and challengingly – from last week. The assurance that was explored through the readings in Easter 5A is found this week in the promise of God’s abiding presence. God’s presence continues in an attitude of comfort, emphasising God’s nearness and...
HAPPY EASTER IN YOU! How are we living the resurrection? One of the biggest questions we must face as followers of Christ is that of how our faith interacts with the crises in our world, and our engagement with them. The reality is that we live in a world of struggling and sorrow and of...
THEME: ABUNDANT LIFE – ALL OUR NEEDS are met HAPPY EASTER IN YOU! How are we living the resurrection? This week the readings offers a wonderful and rich connection of ideas. In this season of the resurrection, the life of Christ is still uppermost in our minds, and Jesus’ promise that he has come to...
MESSAGE 23 April 3rd Sunday of EASTER Year A THEME: Response and Revealed GOSPEL = Good News leads us to respond, how? HAPPY EASTER IN YOU! Easter is a verb. How are we living the resurrection? How have we and how are we responding? God’s life and grace, and the gift of resurrection,...
MESSAGE 16 April 2023 – Second Sunday of EASTER Year A THEME: Jesus, our living hope! Christ is Risen. He is Risen indeed! Alleluia. Happy EASTER in you! Easter is not over! While we celebrated Easter Sunday last week, the fifty day Easter Season continues until Pentecost Sunday. During this time, the Lectionary invites us...
