Palm Sunday: Father Gethin
Christ is more than a prophet, and more than a collection of wisdoms and insight; He is Wisdom itself, and His meaning and purpose can only properly be found where they eternally reside: in Himself.
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The royal procession of Palm Sunday leads to a cross… We follow Jesus today, and we are reminded that to follow him means to receive his example, which is one of inward humility and outward patience.
Read morePassion Sunday: Bishop Michael Hawkins
You are free children, not bound servants. In Jesus Christ, God has redeemed you from slavery and adopted you as his children. This is the Gospel of the Incarnation, Death and Resurrection of the Son of God…
Read moreLent 4: Bishop Michael Hawkins
There is in all and each of us a hunger and a thirst, which nothing in this world can satisfy. The things of this world will either disappoint or addict us.
Read moreLent 4: Father Gethin
Jesus is indeed healer, and teacher, and the very image of heaven, but He is more than these: He is truly, utterly, and profoundly, with us. He is the teacher who also has pity and compassion, and who provides for the life of His disciples out of His own substance.
Read moreLent 3: Father Gethin
This Sunday, as we witness the power of our Saviour over the demons, as we watch the ‘stronger man’ come and proclaim the Kingdom of God with a divine might and authority, our sense of conviction, our Christian calling to ‘draw near to God,’ also receives a new and clearer focus.
Read moreLent 1: Bishop Michael Hawkins
The story of Jesus’ temptation is the story of power unexercised. It is hard for us to understand, because we live so much in a day when “just because I can” is justification for any action at all.
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“Rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful,” we read from the prophet Joel in the Penitential Rite on Ash Wednesday.
Read moreQuinquagesima: Father Gethin
The fast of Lent is like a doorway, leading us out from our natural and material preoccupations, into a landscape that is spiritual and supernatural, so that we may find there our true heart’s desire, the love of our life, and the fulfillment of all our hope: the God-man Jesus…
Read moreSexagesima: Father Gethin
It is Christ Whom we shall find when we enter the Lenten wilderness, when we depart from the rush and noise of the fallen city, to ‘come apart to a desert place, and find our refreshment there awhile.’
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