by gordon | Mar 27, 2020 | Reflections
LENT is our time to repent, reflect, open our hearts a little wider and understand our Lord a little more deeply, so that when Good Friday and Easter come, we have the opportunity to receive overflowing grace from God. This year we shall be doing these things within...
by gordon | Mar 27, 2020 | Reflections
(Also known as Passion Sunday) This is the day on which many churches have traditionally turned their thoughts to the suffering of Jesus. The word ‘passion’ comes from a Latin word meaning to suffer. If you are ‘compassionate’, you suffer alongside (with) someone. We...
by gordon | Mar 20, 2020 | Reflections
(Also known as Mothering Sunday) Mothering Sunday was originally a day on which Christian families would come to worship in their ‘mother church’, typically either the church in which they had been baptised or the main church or cathedral of the area. In the course of...
by gordon | Mar 13, 2020 | Reflections
Our prayer last week concerned ‘staying on the path of God’s love’. What does this mean? We know Christ’s teaching on the importance of love: One of [the Pharisees], a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the...
by gordon | Mar 6, 2020 | Reflections
How is the date of Easter calculated? We read in the Gospels that the Friday on which Christ was crucified was the day before the Jews celebrated Passover – whose date followed a very complicated pattern – you can have fun trying to work it out from:...
