Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
I often think that this sentence should be written above every altar: “This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them.” That is the Gospel Word, and that is the Gospel sacrament. That is the good news for you and me today…
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It is an unattractive idea that we should be in a continual process of growing up into our faith, and that our progress toward a glorified Christian life is in continual need of help and guidance…
Read moreOur lessons today carry on directly from last Sunday, with the theme of our growth into our Christian life and calling: we hear more from St. John’s first epistle about the way of charity, and Jesus illustrates more of the worldly impediments to that way in the parable of the dinner guests…
Read moreSo on the one hand, we have this anger and hatred and murder, and its end is death. On the other hand, we have this love and its end is life…
Read moreOur Collect and Lessons today set out the foundation of what will be our whole concern and effort throughout this Trinity season: our faithful commitment to, and our spiritual progress in, the merciful love of God…
Read moreThis week we set out on the long green passage through the Trinity season, which will lead us finally back to Advent and the beginning of a new Church year…
Read moreWhat is life? Does it consist merely in all those things we have and enjoy: riches, clothing, and food? Jesus tries desperately to get us to see beyond these possessions. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Read moreWe are half-way through the Church year, and Trinity Sunday is the fulcrum, the turning point. We celebrate today what God has made known to us, the fullness of his saving self-revelation, and we shall in the next weeks consider how we are to live, in response to and in accord with that revelation.
Read moreThe Octave day of Pentecost, which we call Trinity Sunday, celebrates the ultimate fulfillment of God’s purpose in our Redemption, summed up for us today in John’s heavenly vision: ‘A door was opened in heaven’, he tells us, and by way of that door he sees God’s identity and life.
Read moreTogether with Christmas and Easter, Pentecost recalls the foundational events of our faith: the Incarnation of the divine Word at Christmas, Christ’s suffering and triumph over death in the Passion and Resurrection, and finally, the sending of the Holy Spirit, which we celebrate today, also called Whitsunday.
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