Pentecost: Father Gethin
The Holy Spirit does not descend to lead us home: He arrives to be our home. “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”…
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So in the Gospel words of Jesus to us today, he tells of how the Holy Spirit will empower his followers to keep his commandments, to love as he loved, and will teach them the truth and bind them to God, and in God, for ever.
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“He dwells with you, and will be in you.” Humanity is divided in so many ways and along so many lines. Some of these distinctions are part of that glorious symphony of creation…
Read moreRogation: Bishop Michael Hawkins
The Church embraces the season of growth, with Rogationtide on one side and Harvest Thanksgiving on the other. And we are taught in this that every endeavour is to be held together by prayer and thanksgiving to God…
Read moreThe Sunday after the Ascension: Father Gethin (2)
Christ Ascends to reign on high, and in that glory He also establishes the hope of our calling, our eternal joy obtained, by Him who loves us— “I go to prepare a place for you.” The way is at last prepared, so that we who longed for a peace and blessing beyond the world’s fleeting treasures, might follow after Him.
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The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ is part and parcel of his resurrection, and these are the logical and necessary consequence of his willing and sinless death on the Cross, and the vindication and evidence of his divinity…
Read moreRogation: Father Gethin
In a wonderful way, Eastertide is all about the discovery and development of a new and better religious language: “These things have I spoken unto you in parables: the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in parables, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.”
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In the light of the Resurrection we are to find ourselves free from the world’s sinful bondage, and free, therefore, to offer our hearts to God with faith and thanksgiving.
Read moreEaster 4: Father Gethin (2)
As we pass into the last days of Eastertide, our focus begins to shift, as Jesus’ teaching also shifts, from the meaning of His Resurrected person, to the promise His Resurrection proclaims…
Read moreEaster 4: Father Gethin
The final work of Our Lord’s earthly ministry is to prepare His followers for the strange, and in some ways painful event of His earthly departure at the Ascension. ‘Because I have said these things, sorrow hath filled your heart’…
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