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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 19th April 2026

The Third Sunday of Easter                        Year A                                                19th April 2026 Lectionary readings: Acts 2 v14a, 36-41;      Psalm 116 v1-4, 12-19;       1 Peter 1 v17-23;        Luke 24 v13-35. Strangers no more. In Luke’s account, two disciples on the way to the village of Emmaus, are joined by a  ‘stranger’ who they later discover…

Shaped by Failure

(Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash)     Back in the 1980s I was fascinated to read a book called ‘The Lost Villages of Britain’ by Richard Muir and the greatest honour I can pay it is to say that it remains on my shelves to this day when many other books have  gone. It whetted my…

A very yellow day

Easter Sunday was a very yellow day for me.  As we travelled to church, we saw beautiful daffodils on the verges and also some delicate lemony primroses.  Inside the church, the different yellow and golden shades seemed to stand out in Easter banners and decorations. Fuzzy chicks and eggs again glowed yellow. I must just…

Virtue or Vice?

(Familydestinationsguide.com Images) Many of you will have experienced the frustration of trying to close an overfull suitcase, fit everything into the car for a family holiday with little children and all the equipment associated with babies, or pack a few items too many into an overfull cupboard. All my adult life I have been quite…

Meet together

I can now greet you from the other side of Easter, hoping you have experienced something of the joy of that day from attending a service, reading something in a book or online, or listening to a Radio or TV programme in the last few days. I have continued to think about Jesus’ disciples and…