by gordon | May 13, 2021 | Reflections
I don’t do ‘goodbyes’ very well. I find them too emotional, too painful. When I left, after 7 years, my first teaching post, I could not bring myself to be present in the staff room for the traditional ‘saying goodbye’. I had enjoyed the 7 years and had made good...
by gordon | Apr 4, 2021 | Reflections
‘Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus….. And behold 2...
by gordon | Apr 2, 2021 | Reflections
‘When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, ‘It is finished.’ And he bowed His head, and gave up his spirit.’ ‘It is finished!’ is a common enough expression which each of us will have used perhaps many times during our lives……. as when that...
by gordon | Apr 1, 2021 | Reflections
‘ I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another,’ Maundy Thursday is an important date in the Royal calendar. It is the day on which the Queen visits cathedrals around the country to present a...
by gordon | Mar 28, 2021 | Reflections
‘Those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Pilate spoke to the crowd again. ‘Then what do you want me to do with the man you call King of the Jews?’ They shouted back, ‘Crucify him!’...
