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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 9th October 2022

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 9th October 2022 Lectionary Readings: 2 Kings 5 v1-3, 7-15b; Psalm 111; 2 Timothy 2 v8-15; Luke 17 v11-19. Respect and obedience. “Respect and obey the Lord! This is the first step to wisdom and good sense.” (Psalm 111 v10). Try telling that to Naaman! In the…

Faith in the Wilderness : words of exhortation from the Chinese church

Faith in the Wilderness : words of exhortation from the Chinese churchHannah Nation and Simon Liu editors Kirkdale Press, 2022 ISBN 978 1 683 596 042Also available digitally from Lexham Press A collection of nine sermons by different Chinese pastors in a book of about 150 pages is nothing extraordinary, you might say. Yet there…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 2nd October 2022

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 2nd October 2022 Lectionary Readings: Habakkuk 1 v1-4, 2 v1-4; Psalm 37 v1-9; 2 Timothy 1 v1-14; Luke 17 v5-10. Faith, Trust and Mission. “You have been trusted with a wonderful treasure. Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit, who lives within you.” (2…

The Book of Ruth : a journey of faith

26 September 2022
Raymond Wilson
Ipswich Round, Reviews

The Book of Ruth : a journey of faith dvd High Fliers Films, 2019 86 minutes This film is a fairly faithful representation of the Old Testament story of Ruth, Naomi and Boaz with such additional characters and dialogue as judged necessary to make the story flow. A narrator helps the story along but only…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 25th September 2022

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 25th September 2022 Lectionary Readings: Amos 6 v1a, 4-7; Psalm 146; 1 Timothy 6 v6-19; Luke 16 v19-31. Warnings to the rich. This week’s readings continue the theme of recent weeks about the dangers of trusting in wealth. The prophet Amos takes the rulers of Jerusalem and…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 18th September 2022

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 18th September 2022 Lectionary Readings: Amos 8 v4-7; Psalm 113; 1 Timothy 2 v1-7; Luke 16 v1-13. God and money. Amos was send by God to the northern kingdom of Israel during a period of prosperity to expose its rotten core. Amos warned the people of impending…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 11th September 2022

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 11th September 2022 Lectionary Readings: Exodus 32 v7-14; Psalm 51 v1-10; 1 Timothy 1 v12-17; Luke 15 v1-10. RSVP Luke tells of a time when Jesus was surrounded by a crowd made up of ‘tax collectors and sinners’ and ‘Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses’.…

Jeremiah (The Soncino Books of the Bible)

Jeremiah (The Soncino Books of the Bible), commentary by Rabbi Dr H FreedmanSoncino Press, 1949 369 pages available from Langdon eTraders via Amazon £15 This commentary on the Old Testament book of Jeremiah is one of a series (14 vols in all) published, with many reprints, just after the second World War. Rabbi Dr H…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 4th September 2022

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 4th September 2022 Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy 30 v15-20; Psalm 1; Philemon v1-21; Luke 14 v25-33. The seemingly impossible demands of being a disciple. Jesus said, “You cannot be my disciples unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, your wife and children and…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 28th August 2022

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 28th August 2022 Lectionary Readings: Proverbs 25 v6,7; Psalm 112; Hebrews 13 v1-8, 15,16; Luke 14 v1, 7-14. Hospitality Luke says, ‘One Sabbath, Jesus was having dinner in the home of an important Pharisee, and everyone was carefully watching Jesus’. (Luke 14 v1). ‘Jesus saw how the…