Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
We note how often this reversal of the order of contagion occurs in Jesus’ healing miracles. We assume that when a well person comes into contact with a sick person, the contagious disease passes from the sick to the well. But here the opposite occurs.
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The twenty-third Sunday after Trinity marks the official finale of this long green season, which has served to guide our passage out of our fallen, worldly, confusions and predicaments, and into the marvellous light and life our resurrected Lord and Saviour…
Read moreJesus implies that they and we have a dual citizenship, earthly and heavenly. At times, there is no conflict between these, but we must remember that they do at other times come into the strongest of conflict…
Read moreThe feast of All Saints crowns the Christian year with a renewed vision of our heavenly life and calling, tried and purified by our faithful passage through the story of this Trinity season…
Read moreBoth being unforgiven and unforgiving are full of torment. They are a taste of hell and a feel of its unquenchable flame. For hell is the place of no forgiveness, where there is no love to cover any sin.
Read moreAs we make our way through this troubled and troublesome world, and as we struggle to persevere in our faith, confronting the temptations and darkness which constantly test our spiritual resolve, it can often seem that we must wait for heaven to have any sense of our blessing…
Read moreOur common calling as the followers and disciples of Jesus is to grow up into our Christian maturity, so that our spiritual identity as the citizens of heaven and the members of Christ’s body becomes continually stronger and more clear.
Read moreMany in our day find the military language in that Epistle reading off-putting and offensive. But we want to be careful not to miss or dismiss Paul’s point – that there is a real, spiritual battle against evil and darkness.
Read moreLuke would have us see clearly the order and pattern of our Lord’s life, and following from that story, he carries on in Acts with a history of that order and goodness working itself out in the first years of the Church.
Read moreThis is a hard saying of Jesus, this ending to the parable. And for two thousand years Christians have wondered, “What is this wedding garment? What is the dress code for heaven? What is the one thing you have to have on, to stay at the heavenly banquet?”
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