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:...
by gordon | Feb 28, 2020 | Reflections
We are now well and truly into Lent. Ash Wednesday, the first day in Lent, is behind us. Why Ash Wednesday? Ashes, often linked to the wearing of sackcloth in the Old Testament of the Bible, are traditionally a sign of repentance, a sign that we intend to change our...
by gordon | Feb 21, 2020 | Reflections
What is Lent? The word comes from an old English word Lengten meaning ‘lengthen’. Lent is observed in spring, when the days begin to get longer (cf. modern German Lenz = springtime). We celebrated the birth of Jesus at the darkest period of the...
