205, 2025

Eucharist – The 2nd Sunday of Easter

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We are so accustomed to the story of Jesus appearing to his disciples that we might not stop to wonder what the fear of the disciples was like, how profound that fear was. Was it like the fear of people living in Ukraine not knowing when the next attack would come? Was it like the fear of those working in the hospital in Gaza wondering if they will be able to care for their patients in the hours that lie ahead? Jesus’ disciples know deep fear after his death and the strange stories that he might be alive. And then he comes. And stands among them and says, ‘Peace be with you.’

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603, 2025

Eucharist – The 8th Sunday after Epiphany

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There are some days when, pondering the events in the world, we find ourselves shuddering, and we go out into the garden, perhaps, and look at the sky, and cry out, ‘Is there a word from the Lord?’ In our Old Testament reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah, we hear the voice of the Lord comparing the word of the Lord to the rain that comes down from heaven watering the earth, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater. "So shall my word be ... it shall not return to me empty but shall accomplish that which I shall purpose," the Lord says.

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603, 2025

Eucharist – The 6th Sunday after Epiphany – 16 February 2025

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Jesus is inviting us to follow him and walk in his ways. He has just called his disciples and appointed them apostles in the preceding verses and now he offers for us to come alongside and step into the kingdom of God with him. To live our lives in a way that reflects God’s world and not just the world around us.

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603, 2025

Evensong – The 5th Sunday after Epiphany – 9 February 2025

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Abraham, the wise man from the east who is called by God to the Promised Land and who leaves the Chaldees to journey to Canaan. This kind of continues the themes of the Epiphany season. It is a story about that desire to follow where God leads, not knowing what you will find. It’s fuelled by a desire to see God and know God. To befriend God. Neither Abraham, nor the wise men from the East, knew exactly what they were looking for, and nor did they know when or exactly where they might find it. But they had been prompted by God, and they responded faithfully to that prompting.

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603, 2025

Eucharist – The 5th Sunday after Epiphany – 9 February 2025

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The day after the inauguration of the President of the United States of America, the Bishop of Washington, the Right Rev’d Mariann Budd spoke to the congregation in the Washington Cathedral imploring the President to treat vulnerable groups of people with mercy. Reflecting in a conversation with a journalist, in the days that followed, Bishop Mariann Budd gave some insight into where the hope that her words inspired came from, where her inspiration to speak as she did, came from.

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2601, 2025

Night Prayer – The 3rd Sunday after Epiphany – 26 January 2025

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The term ‘dark night of the Soul’ derives from the title of a poem written by the C16 Spanish mystic, San Juan de la Cruz (St John of the Cross) which in Spanish was ‘Noche Oscura (canciones del alma)’. John of the Cross had been imprisoned in a tiny two by three metre cell with a tiny slit high up to let in a small amount of light; in this cell he wrote his ‘Spiritual canticles’ on paper smuggled into him by a guard. This famous poem, however, he wrote after his escape from the prison.

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2601, 2025

Eucharist – The 3rd Sunday after Epiphany – 26 January 2025

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We were called to bring this good news of the redemption and restoration that Jesus Christ brings to all who believe in him. From the passage today from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, we understand the importance of respecting the differing gifts we have for the work set before us. Unity in Christ strengthens and encourages us to pursue the vision and continue to make it a reality in the world, bringing light and hope.

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2201, 2025

Eucharist (BCP) – Wednesday 22 January

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Making whole, whether a feast, a body, a mind, a spirit, a teaching, or a law was what Jesus of Nazareth brought to the world of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. God the Son, fills up the feast of life set before us with joy, finest delight, and it will never run out. Let him live in us!

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2101, 2025

Sung Eucharist – The Baptism of our Lord – 12 January 2025

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In our Gospel from Luke, we have a slightly different take on the baptismal story; Jesus is baptised with others and not just by himself. It is after Jesus is baptised that he prays. Then immediately we read, “the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:21)

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1301, 2025

Night Prayer – The Baptism of the Lord – 12 January 2025

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Profundus is the Latin word for deep and, of course, the root word of our English term ‘profound’. Something that is profound is not only something deep in meaning but also, implicitly, worthy of being found. It has also led to an understanding that sometimes things worthy of being found may be encountered not only in places of deep thought, but also in places of the dark depths, out of sight of the light. It may be the place, for example, where one feels so deep down in the darkness of spirit that one strains one’s eyes even to catch a glimmer of light as a beacon of any hope.

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