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Year A Advent 4: playing the fool
You have to wonder how many times Joseph had that dream. I mean, once is good; but after a few days, a weeks, wouldn’t you find yourself wondering all over again what was going on, worrying whether you had been … Continue reading
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Tagged 1Corinthians 1:25, Advent, Christmas, collect for Advent, dreams, foolishness, God, Incarnation, Joseph, Mary, Matthew 1:18-25, miracles, Psalm 14:1, Romans 1:1-7
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Blue Christmas 2013
There is a scene in the extended poem by W.H. Auden, For the Time Being, that has never left me since I first read it. The language is so visual I can almost see it. Transplanted into contemporary England – … Continue reading
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Tagged Blitz, Christmas, Christmas Oratorio, explosion, For the time being, gift, Jesus, Joseph, love, Mary, Matthew 1:18-25, WH Auden
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The naming of cats, children, and wonderful counsellors
Recently a parishioner handed me a list she had come across of fifty names for Jesus given to him in scripture – fifty shades of great, perhaps? There were some wonderful titles, but I don’t think that in the whole … Continue reading
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Tagged circumcision, fifty shades, Holy Name, Jesus, Mary, Messiah, naming, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, parenting, T.S. Eliot, Wonderful Counsellor
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Juxtapositions
Last Wednesday, I told a score of people or more that they were going to die. “You are dust,” I reminded them, “and to dust you will return.” And I marked their faces with ash. In the line was my youngest … Continue reading
Monday, 19th December: The Annunciation Contd
The rest of a sermon delivered at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Elyria, OH, Sunday December 18th 2011 Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you. Mary was perplexed. She was confused, bewildered, frightened. She was thunderstruck, gobsmacked, utterly flabbergasted. She … Continue reading
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Sunday, 18th December: Year B Advent 4: The Annunciation
“Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.” Mary was perplexed. She was confused, bewildered, frightened. She was thunderstruck, gobsmacked, utterly flabbergasted. She was troubled. She was shocked. She was amazed. For all of its beauty, I am not sure … Continue reading
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Tagged annunciation, archangel, Mary, year b advent 4
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