Reflection for Holy Saturday 2021
Our reflection for Holy Saturday 2021 is now available:
Our reflection for Holy Saturday 2021 is now available:
Luke 24:1-12 1 Corinthians 15:17-26 ‘These words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.’ Why not? Why were the eleven disciples and the others so incredulous? Perhaps because those who brought the news were all women: Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others. Resurrection, if it happens,…
Pause for Thought for 3 February 2021 is now available:
Mark 9:2-13 Transformation and transfiguration are not experiences to be taken lightly or dismissed as religious nonsense. There are events in all our lives which do not have simple explanations; things that happen to us that we don’t entirely comprehend. Sometimes they are good things, unforgettable, life-enhancing moments. Sometimes they are terrifying. Sometimes we take…
There was a newly married couple who arrived very late indeed at the hotel for their honeymoon, after a terrible journey. It was really late, and the couple were so tired after their horrific journey that they just wanted to go to sleep. They were shown to their room, and it was smaller than they…
Mark 16:1-8 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 Some years ago someone received a letter from the then DHSS, informing him that his benefit would be stopped at the end of March 1986 because he had died. The letter then went onto say, “you may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.” Someone once wrote into…
Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Matthew 4:1-11 Adam and Eve’s choice There days we can choose our GP and our Dentist, we can choose which consultant and which we’re referred to, we can try and choose our children’s schools, we can choose all manner of telephones (remember the days when you could have a black one a…