1 Peter 5:5-14Mark 16:15-20 When we celebrate the feast of St Mark the Evangelist we celebrate the gifts of a storyteller. What we read on the printed page had its origins in an oral culture. The early Church preserved in writing the memories and stories which shaped their identity. Mark’s Gospel is the first to …
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Wednesday, Fourth Week of Easter
John 12:44-50 I, the light, have come into the world,so that whoever believes in meneed not stay in the dark any more. During my time in the monastery many people have asked me to pray for them. Sometimes they are seeking a way forward and might have the choice between two good things. I have …
St George
Romans 5:1-5John 15:18-21 ‘These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.‘ We are now in our fourth week of celebrating Easter and St George …
Monday, Fourth Week of Easter
John 10: 1-10 I am the gate.Anyone who enters through me will be safe:he will go freely in and out and be sure of finding pasture. For the hearers of John’s Gospel the image of a shepherd will have invoked a whole world of meaning. Being in charge of a flock of animals and making …
Fourth Sunday of Easter (B)
JOHN 10:11-18 I am the Good Shepherd: the good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep. Biblical scholars tell us that the shepherds of Jesus’ day took the safety of the sheep so seriously that they would lie themselves across the entrance to the sheepfold at night. This would stop both …
Saturday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:60-69 Then Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘What about you, do you want to go away too?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘Lord, who shall we go to? You have the message of eternal life, and we believe; we know that you are the Holy One of God.’ Often in liturgy we are holding several time …
Friday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:52-59 ‘He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.’ When we gather together to give thanks to the Father and to share bread and wine we make a statement about who we are as individuals and who we are as community. We receive Christ’s broken …
Thursday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:44-51 ‘Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and they are dead; but this is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a man may eat it and not die.’ It’s worth reading the whole of the Bread of Life discourse (John 6:22-66) in one sitting to get a sense of …
Wednesday, Third Week of Easter
Acts 8:1-8John 6:35-40 I am the bread of life.He who comes to me will never be hungry;he who believes in me will never thirst. We are so familiar with Jesus’ language when he refers to himself as ‘the Bread of Life’ that it is easy to miss just how bold a claim this was. In …
Tuesday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:30-35 ‘Sir,’ they said ‘give us that bread always.’Jesus answered:‘I am the bread of life.He who comes to me will never be hungry;he who believes in me will never thirst.’ These texts from John’s Gospel are so familiar that I often find myself letting them wash over me. Today I noticed something new. The …