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...
THEME: Resurrected Life – come Jesus, Easter in us!! Christ is Risen. He is Risen indeed! Alleluia. The Christian celebration of Easter invites us into the heart of the mystery of love. L-O-V-E love that’s why. We call it the paschal mystery of our faith – the dying and rising of Christ, showing us a...
THEME: Hosanna, Crucify Him This last Sunday in Lent heralds the triumphal entry into Jerusalem with Jesus the liberator. This Sunday also ushers in the beginning of Holy Week and what feels like defeat as we face the consequences of standing up to unjust authority. Hosanna – means, “Save us” Saved from what? Saved for...
Rev Tania writes: The readings for Lent 5 are a prophecy. In this last week of Lent, as we prepare to move into Holy Week, we are given a prophecy of the resurrection to come for Christ. But, before Jesus can get to the glory, there is a lot of suffering and sacrifice to be...
Blindness and sight, light and darkness, rejection of those in power and anointing of those who are unknown – these are the threads in the Lectionary readings of this week. The heart of the theme is this: how do we choose to see? Samuel is tempted to look at Jesse’s sons in an ordinary human...
