All God’s Creatures Got A Place In the Choir was composed by Bill Staines, an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New England, This song has been recorded by many others apart from Makem and Clancy, but this is my…
Category: Gospel
Jesus Incognito
It’s the story of two disciples who, travelling back from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus in the days immediately following the crucifixion of Jesus.
Weekend retreat at St Mary’s and St Stephen’s
Sermon on the mount. Weekend retreat at St Mary’s and St Stephen’s. Our guest speaker at this special event was Bruce Smith wqho talked about our calling as disciples, as we follow Jesus.
Weekend retreat at St Mary’s and St Stephen’s
Weekend retreat at St Mary’s and St Stephen’s
Have a Blessed St Stephen’s Christmas
The Post-Easter Church
Here we are then, coming back down to earth after Easter, and it’s most definitely after Easter.
The cross is still here of course, and the flowers are still beautiful and the hymns still have a distinctly Easter feel to them, but there’s one thing missing - the people.
The cross is still here of course, and the flowers are still beautiful and the hymns still have a distinctly Easter feel to them, but there’s one thing missing - the people.
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Today is Good Friday.
How can the worst day in human history be described as good?
This is the day that Our Lord was crucified. It is the day he hung on the cross for all our sins.
It is the day of darkness at noon.
Earliest fragment of Mark’s gospel found
A New Testament expert says that seven recently discovered papyri may contain the earliest known version of the Gospel of Mark—dating to the first century, the same in which Jesus and his disciples lived.
The parable of the unforgiving servant
The parable of the unforgiving servant Matthew 18:21-35
A Personal Reflection on John 14:1-11
Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.
Concerning Retaliation
Gospel: Matthew 5:38-45. You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer.
Concerning Anger
Concerning Anger. Matthew 5:21-24.
When the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) was introduced in Anglican Churches throughout Canada in the 1980’s some churches had problems with the suggested practice around ‘The Peace’.
You are the light of the world
Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?