November
27 - Advent 1
Stay
Awake
Mark
13:24-37
December
4 - Advent 2
The
Long Wait
Mark
1:1-8
December
11 - Advent 3
God
is Among Us Now
John
1:6-8, 19-28
December
18 - Advent 4
Promise
in a World of Broken Promises
Luke
1:26-38
December
25 - Christmas Day
Christmas'
I Remember
John
1:1-14
December
26 -31
Where
Did Christmas Go?
Christmas
narratives from
Matthew
and Luke
January
1 -New Years Day
The
Naming of Jesus
Our
Moment inTime
Psalm
90:12
January
6 - Epiphany
Something
Significant is Happening
Matthew
2:1-12
January
8 - first Sunday After Epiphany
The
Baptism of The
Lord
What
Does It Mean?
Mark
1:4-11
January
15 - Second Sunday After Epiphany
Under
the Power of a New Affection
John
1:43-51
January
22 - Third Sunday After Epiphany
Following
the Joy
Mark
1:14-20
January
29 - Fourth Sunday After Epiphany
"What
Can Set us Free?"
Mark
1:21-28
February
5 - Fifth Sunday After Epiphany
"Time-Out"
Mark
1 :29-39
February
12 - Sixth Sunday After Epiphany
"Not
Our Kind of People?"
Mark
1:40-45
February
19 - The Last Sunday of Epiphany- Transfiguration
"Who
Are We?"
Mark
9:2-9
February
26 - First Sunday of Lent
"A
Time for Repentance"
Mark
1:9-15
March
4 - Second Sunday of Lent
"Open
Your Hearts and Listen"
Mark
8:31-38
March
11 - Third Sunday of Lent
"Our
Gods Are Dying"
John
2:13-22
A
Revised Version of "On
the Threshold of a New Era"
Lent 3, 2003
March
18 - Fourth Sunday of Lent
"God
Loves the World through Us"
John
3:14-21
March
25 -Fifth
Sunday of Lent
"The
Power of Love"
John
12:20-33
April
1 - Palm/Passion Sunday
"The
Centurian's Cry"
The
Passion accroding to Mark 15: 1-39
For
many years while still active in parish ministry I would present a
meditation before the congregation from Joost De Blank's booklet
"Is It Nothing to You". The meditation was originally
written by Archbishop Joost De Blank, and spoken before the people of
St. Stephen's Church, Westminster, in 1952, telling the story of the
Crucifixion as if seen from the eyes of the Centurion, Loginus,
in charge of the prisoner Jesus. The Archbishop reflects on each of
the traditional Seven Words for the Cross. Today I have chosen
the final words "Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit"
after which the Centurian cries "Surely
this was a righteous man"
or "Truly
this man was God's Son"
(Mark
15:39)
April
8 - Easter
"Now
For The Good Part!"
Mark
16:1-8
April
15 - Second Sunday of Easter
"Believing
When You Don't See"
John
20:19-31
April
22 - Third Sunday of Easter
"Going
Beyond what we consider normal"
Luke
24:36b-48
April
29 - Fourth Sunday of Easter
"God
is Like This...."
John
10:11-18
May
6 - Fifth Sunday of Easter
"Staying
Connected"
John
15:1-8
May
13 - 6th Sunday of Easter
"A
Love that Goes Beyond Self"
John
15:9-17
(Also
relevant for Mother's Day)
May
20 - 7th Sunday of Easter
The
Sunday After Ascension
"Left
Alone"
Luke
24:44-53 (Gospel for Ascension)
May
27 - The Day of Pentecost
"What
Can We Expect of the Spirit"
Ezekiel
37:1-14