4th Sunday After Pentecost
4th Sunday After Pentecost
3 July 2022
At this point in Luke’s Gospel the Jesus ministry is gaining momentum and notoriety.
Year C
Sinning Against the Earth?
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
26th June 2022
A Reflection on the Galatians passage
2nd Sunday after Pentecost
Sometimes the environmental challenges feel overwhelming. You are involved in a wonderful clean-up campaign – the group leaves the area or river looking wonderful and then the following week there has been illegal dumping and it looks worse than before.
Holy Trinity: Joining the dance
Lectionary 1st Reading Psalm 2nd Reading Gospel Anglican lectionary: Proverbs 8: 1-4, 22-31 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 Catholic lectionary: (both) – (both) (both) How does Trinity Sunday, which we celebrate today, relate to climate change? How can understanding God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit inform our struggle to stabilize the climate and protect …
Only One Earth
Pentecost/World Environment Day
Today we celebrate both Pentecost and World Environment Day
Many of us feel extremely worried as we look at the global situation. We are facing a triple ‘pandemic’ of climate change, biodiversity collapse and pollution.
7th Sunday of Easter
Paul and Silas heal a slave girl who is doubly oppressed (Acts 16). Firstly she is a slave and secondly she is possessed by an evil spirit that controls her. When she is healed, her owners are furious because they have lost their source of income. Paul and Silas are beaten and thrown into jail. Their response is to sing hymns and praise God. When given the chance to escape, they do not take it. Their sacrifice and attitude leads to the jailer and his whole household being saved.
Receive the Peace of Christ
Lectionary 1st Reading Psalm 2nd Reading Gospel Anglican lectionary: Acts 16:9-15 67 Rev 21:10,22-22:5 John 14:23-29 Catholic lectionary: Acts 15:1-2,22-29 – Rev 21:10-14,22-23 (both) [NOTE: The preacher may wish to have available a hat, scarf, shawl, jacket, or other piece of clothing to wear when each of the two characters shows up in the sermon] …
5th Sunday of Easter
Lectionary 1st Reading Psalm 2nd Reading Gospel Anglican lectionary: Acts 11:1-18 148 Rev 21:1-6 John 13:31-35 Catholic lectionary: Acts 14, 21b-27 – (both) (both)
Good Shepherd, Good Earth
Lectionary 1st Reading Psalm 2nd Reading Gospel Anglican lectionary: Acts 9: 36-43 AL Rev 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 Catholic lectionary: Acts 13:14,43b-52 – (both) John 10:27-30 Today is Good Shepherd Sunday. On the Fourth Sunday of Easter our Gospel reading is always drawn from Chapter Ten of John’s Gospel, where Jesus speaks of himself as the …
Focussing on Participation
Participation means having the chance to be a part of the society at an eye-to-eye level. It is opposite to any limitation, segregation, let alone exclusion in terms of money or culture, in terms of ethnic or religious characteristics. Participation means realising what article 1 of the German constitutions claims, i.e. that the dignity of the human being is inviolable.