Luke 1:57-66,80 What will this child turn out to be? I have always loved this line from Luke’s account of the Birth of John the Baptist. The reader knows just who he will turn out to be. And yet, I am always caught up in a feeling of expectancy and possibilities. An earlier line in …
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Saints John Fisher and Thomas More
Matthew 24:4-13 In the Collect for today’s feast we hear these words; ‘graciously grant that, strengthened through the intercession of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, we may confirm by the witness of our life the faith we profess with our lips.’ This encapsulates the basic truth that the faith into which we were baptised …
Corpus Christi
Genesis 14:18-201 Corinthians 11:23-26Luke 9:11-17 As I looked at the readings for today I noticed that there was one word which appeared in all three texts: bread (loaf). In the first reading from Genesis we meet the enigmatic figure of Melchizedek. He is a ‘walk on’ biblical character, disappearing as quickly as he comes. Of …
The Onward Journey
I’ll be taking a break from posting for the next couple of weeks. I hope to start posting again on Sundays, Feasts and Solemnities. Daily postings will return in Advent. Thanks for your companionship on the journey this Lent/Eastertide. If you have enjoyed exploring John’s Gospel in Eastertide you might find these talks by Malcolm …
Pentecost
John 20:19-23 From the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday to the celebration of Pentecost the Church has marked out a path for us to follow. We have walked in the wilderness with Israelites, fasted in the desert with Jesus, followed him as he taught and worked miracles, we have sat at the table in …
Saturday, Seventh Week of Easter
John 21:20-25 This disciple is the one who vouches for these things and has written them down, and we know that his testimony is true. There were many other things that Jesus did; if all were written down, the world itself, I suppose, would not hold all the books that would have to be written. For …
Friday, Seventh Week of Easter
John 21:15-19 Our Gospel texts during Eastertide have laid before us many themes. They weave in an out of each other and form a kind of fabric. Amongst the many themes, these stand out for me: Love, Glory, Life, Believe in Jesus and Truth. Today it is Love that is to be our focus as …
Thursday, Seventh Week of Easter
John 17:20-26 Father, I want those you have given meto be with me where I am,so that they may always see the glory you have given mebecause you loved me before the foundation of the world. Often in liturgy we find ourselves holding several time frames at once. We have celebrated the Ascension and now …
Wednesday, Seventh Week of Easter
John 17:11-19 ‘Consecrate them in the truth;your word is truth.As you sent me into the world,I have sent them into the world,and for their sake I consecrate myselfso that they too may be consecrated in truth.’ In recent weeks as the various scandals have unfolded in our country I have thought a good deal about …
Feast of the Visitation
Luke 1:39-56 ‘Mary set out and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country’. When Mary sets out to visit Elizabeth there’s a sense of urgency and excitement. By all accounts Mary’s journey to Elizabeth won’t have been easy. Whatever we imagine the terrain to be like, the journey was …