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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 24th September 2023

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time                     Year A                                    24th September 2023. Lectionary Readings: Jonah 3 v10-4 v11;      Psalm 105 v1-6, 37-45;      Philippians 1 v21-30;      Matthew 20 v1-16. Just to turn things on their head, I am starting with some questions for you to ponder:- The Nature of Love Love is only true to itself when it…

Equality and Diversity

I recently pulled into a pay and display car park, it was a busy day, the car park was fairly full and there was a long queue for the pay and display machine.  My daughter rang me while I was standing in the queue and I started the process of obtaining my ticket, conscious of…

Get rid of the negative

A few days ago when I was visiting a close friend who is quite ill, I met her daughter’s dog for the first time. She is quite a character and certainly makes her presence felt. When she was a pup she broke one of her front legs and it didn’t heal properly so after a while…

Battle of Britain

Today we remember the Battle of Britain. It was a turning point in WW2. If the RAF hadn’t held off the Luftwaffe, Hitler would likely have moved on with Operation Sea lion land invasion of the British Isles. Who’s to say what would have happened then? Britons would have been devastated and the move to…

Holy Cross

Image Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Samuel H. Kress Collection;191.9.12) Reading : Philippians 2:5-11 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the…

Psalm 23 Revisited

This thought is brought to us by Julie P The Lord is my Dive Master, I shall not drown He makes me remember my safety routines He leads me though turbulent water, He plans a safe route for me Even though I lack skills and knowledge, I will fear no sharks, for you are with…

Image and likeness

And God said, “Let us make man in our image after our likeness.” Genesis 1 v 26 (KJV) When you go to the supermarket, the person who gives you the receipt is, according to God’s word, made in the image and likeness of God. When you are in the bank or Post Office or paying…

Sunflowers

Anna Porter brought us a TFTD a couple of weeks ago about sunflowers and how they bring sunshine into dark places, and reflected on the image from Ukraine, where fields of sunflowers have has to give way to graves for those who have died in the conflict. It got me to thinking about the sunflowers…