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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 6th November 2022

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.              Year C             6th November 2022 Lectionary Readings: Job 19 v23-27a;    Psalm 17 v1-9;    2 Thessalonians 2 v1-5, 13-17;    Luke 20 v27-38. Life in the Kingdom of God. The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after death. So some of them came to Jesus and said…(Luke…

Never Give Up!

For several years, The Great North Run was a big event in our family, and we made an annual pilgrimage during September to support family members and friends from Church as they made their way from Newcastle Upon Tyne out to South Shields.  Not that I have ever even contemplating taking part, anybody who has…

Is he safe?

The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 34 v 11.Come, my children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord We will not get far in our relationship with God unless we understand that He is to be feared. In the Chronicles of Narnia, an allegory by C.S.Lewis, two girls, Susan and Lucy,…

Melons and straws:

As we walked (car out of action!) across the  Morrison’s (other supermarkets are available but not so close to home!) car park, me pulling a trolley bag containing the heavier items and him with a full shopping bag, he suddenly stopped, pulled out a second bag and shared the groceries between the bags. With one…

What the Papers Say

The original television series, ‘What The Papers Say’, is older than me. It ran from 1956-2008, faltered, ran again on radio and finally petered out in 2016. The newspapers, printed originally but now often ‘consumed’ digitally, have been part of life for a very long time. Facts and Comment inform thinking, drive agendas and entertain.…

One word of truth

“One word of Truth…” is the title of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s acceptance speech when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The title is part of a Russian proverb which says ‘One word of truth outweighs the whole world’. In the news very recently, you will almost certainly have heard or read that…

Start again

How can God be there when all I seem to be doing is “Starting Again”? Isaiah 43:- v18-19 “Forget the former things, do not dwell in the past” See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up, do you not perceive it? I am making way in the wilderness and the streams in…