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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 10th November 2024

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary time.               Year B                            10th November 2024. Lectionary Readings:  1 Kings 17 v8-16;  Psalm 146;  Hebrews 9 v24-28;  Mark 12 v38-44. Compassion plus ? = Justice Mark tells a story about a poor widow who placed all she had, as a gift, into the Temple offering box. (Mark 12 v41-44).…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 3rd November 2024

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time                   Year B                         3rd November 2024. Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy 6 v1-9;     Psalm 119 v1-8;     Hebrews 9 v11-14;     Mark 12 v28-34. The most important commandment. One of the teachers of the law of Moses….. asked Jesus “What is the most important commandment?” Jesus answered “The most important one says: ‘people…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 27th October 2024

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary time Year B                                                 27th October 2024. Lectionary Readings:  Jeremiah 31 v7-9;   Psalm 126;   Hebrews 7 v23-28;   Mark 10 v46-52. ‘Faith’ and ‘Sight’. The Collins Bible Dictionary defines faith as: ‘Essentially an attitude of mind and heart by which a person entrusts themselves to God. The Bible’s own definition is that…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 20th October 2024

Twenty-ninth Sunday in ordinary Time     Year B                                    20th October 2024. Lectionary readings: Isaiah 53 v4-12;   Psalm 91 v9-16;   Hebrews 5 v1-10;   Mark 10 v35-45. A lesson about ‘Kingship’. James and John asked Jesus if they could sit beside him when he ‘came into his glory’ Jesus was disappointed by their request for places of honour.…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 13th October 2024

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time               Year B                         13th October 2024. Lectionary Readings:   Amos 5 v6-7, 10-15;   Psalm 90 v12-17;   Hebrews 4 v12-16;             Mark 10 v17-31. Money can’t buy you love. In Mark’s account of Jesus’ encounter with a rich man, Jesus acknowledges that the unnamed man is sincere in his desire for eternal life.…