Fourth Sunday of Advent Year A 18th December 2022 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 7 v10-16; Psalm 80 v1-7, 17-19; Romans 1 v1-7; Matthew 1 v18-25. Poor Mary! By tradition, Mary is the focus of the fourth Sunday in Advent, though you would be hard put to evidence that from today’s readings! This is how Jesus…
One of the things I enjoy doing each week is attending my local Leisure Centre “Body Balance” fitness class. I go with a friend, and we call it “Body Wobble” class, as there is often more wobbling than balancing! In our faith, do we wobble or are we evenly balanced? Throughout the Bible, there are…
The Force of Truth by Thomas Scott Banner of Truth, 1984 (first published 1779) 127 pages £2.95ISBN 0 851 514 251 This is a spiritual autobiography from the 18th century by Thomas Scott (1747-1821), a contemporary of the Wesleys. The interest of this narrative is that by his own admission the author became a priest…
Picture from Ipswich Star 7th December 2022 We have a very colourful Anglican Church just down the road from where we live, colourful because of their splendid posters and banners. The Church makes a lovely nativity tableau each year during Advent, which I always enjoy looking at as I queue to get across a nearby…
In my kitchen I always have a tube of hand cream sitting. My hands can get very dry, especially in the wintertime and I don’t always look after them as I should. I don’t wish to promote any particular brand but the one from a country where the first letter is N is my favourite. I…
My third child, I’ll call him George, was the only one of my four to be born on his due date. Even then, he couldn’t wait! Once he went on a school trip and bought me a jar of sweets as a present. When he got off the coach, he proudly offered me the empty…
