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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 15th June 2025

Trinity Sunday                                  Year C                                                 15th June 2025 Lectionary readings:  Proverbs 8 v1-4, 22-31;    Psalm 8;    Romans 5 v1-5;    John 16 v12-15. The source of Wisdom. “You made us a little lower than yourself. You let us rule everything your hands have made. And you put all of it under our power”.  (Psalm 8 v5,6).…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 8th June 2025

Pentecost                                            Year C                                                 8th June 2025 Lectionary Readings: Genesis 11 v1-9;    Psalm 104 v24-34, 35b;    Romans 8 v14-17;    Acts 2 v1-21;   John 14 v8-17. The Gift and Work of the Holy Spirit. In the Jewish tradition, the festival of Pentecost, a celebration of first fruits of harvest, comes fifty days after Passover. Some Christians…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 1st June 2025

Seventh Sunday of Easter                            Year C                                     1st June 2025 Lectionary Readings:  Acts 16 v16-34;   Psalm 97;   Revelation 22 v12-21;   John 17 v20-26. Jesus said, “I will be one with them”. In the reading from John’s gospel, Jesus is praying for us, his followers. Jesus said, “I told them what you are like and I…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 25th May 2025

Sixth Sunday of Easter                     Year C                                                 25th May 2025 Lectionary Readings: Acts 16 v9-15; Psalm 67; Revelation 21 v10, 22-22v5; John 14 v23-29. A place for prayer. In today’s passage from Acts we read of Luke joining Paul and his friends in Troas  and journeying to Philippi as a result of a vision given…