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Good Friday
FRIDAY OF HOLY WEEK – JESUS DIES ON A CROSS
During the hours he hung in agony he uttered seven sentences at intervals:
Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
I thirst! John 19:28
Truly, I say to you, today you will be with...
Thursday In Holy Week
In order for there to be good beginnings there have to be good departings. On his last full day on earth Jesus gives love. He gives it exquisitely. In his tiredness he washes the tired feet of faithful friends. In his generosity he gives bread to his betrayer. In...
Wednesday In Holy Week
WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK: JESUS IS NURTURED AT BETHANY
WEDNESAY IN HOLY WEEK
Although Jesus gave and gave, he was human. Humans, like the Three Loves in God’s heart, need to receive as well as to give nurture. So the fourth day in Jesus’ last week was...
Tuesday In Holy Week
In 1994, nineteen famous preachers were invited to contribute to a book entitled If I Had Only One Sermon to Preach. That concentrated their minds. Imminent death also concentrates the mind. Tuesday in Holy Week was the last whole day of teaching that Jesus gave. Each thing he said,...
Monday In Holy Week
An extract for Monday in Holy Week from my book Reflective Services for Lent:
On Monday Christ throws out the money-seeking money-changers from the temple:
In answer to the question, ‘What was it that made Jesus so angry?’, most scholars agree that it was not financial extortion, it was...
What Is God Saying Through This Pandemic?
What is God saying to the world through the Corona pandemic? ‘Creation sings and its time to listen’ says Paul Gutteridge of Initiatives of Change. His friends and colleagues tell how they receive fresh insights as they garden, and others comment on how, now human frenetic activity is stilled, they...
Covid 19
This week:
I went into total isolation (along with most of UK) except for one walk a day away from others as the covid 19 plague rages across the world I tweeted ‘Come ...Self-isolation? The Privilege Of The Cave
This week:
I went into total isolation (along with most of UK) except for one walk a day away from others as the covid 19 plague rages across the world I tweeted ‘Come ...
Corona Virus And The Way
Oh dear! Despite last week's blog we had in the end to postpone the Cornwall Lent Retreat until the Autumn. Travel was forbidden and I was required to self-isolate.
Penny Warren managed to lead our last Open Gate Retreat before cancellations begin. I drove to Holy Island and we sat two...
When World Shuts Down I Travel Ten Hours For An Uprising Of Cornish Saints
France asks no one over seventy to travel. Italy stops church meetings. Yet on Monday, at the age of eighty, I fulfil a three year obligation to lead three days of retreat in Cornwall, near Land's End, on Saints, Sites and Signposts for our Future. This requires ten hours on...
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