Reflections for Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024
Brothers & Sisters As we turn our attention to the momentous events of this final week of the Passion, we take note of the fact that although the church has […]
Category: Written Messages
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Views From The Pews – Sunday, March 17, 2024
Brothers & Sisters In the Gospel appointed for today the passage begins. “Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks.” And they have come […]
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Mothering Sunday – Sunday, March 10, 2024
Mothering Sunday’s religious significance and some of its customs Mothering Sunday is observed in the fourth Sunday in Lent each year. This Sunday is also referred to as “Refreshment Sunday”. […]
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Message for Lent 3 – Sunday, March 3, 2024
Brothers & Sisters, Usually, Jesus, the Man and God and Prince of Peace, is presented as tender, gentle, humble, and preaching love of neighbour to forgiveness to the point of […]
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Views From The Pews – Lent 2 – February 25, 2024
Brothers & Sisters, Our scripture text from Mark 8:31-38 tells us that Jesus was teaching his disciples about a Messiah who had to suffer. Understandably, the disciples thought that Jesus had lost […]
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Views From The Pews – Sunday, February 18, 2024
Brothers & Sisters, Jesus, after his baptism by John, was in the “spiritual wilderness.” He was tempted, as we are, but he did not sin. He did not succumb to […]
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Message for Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Brothers and Sisters pray with me: “My spirit longs for You Within my troubled heart Though I unworthy be Of so divine a guest Amen I share with you […]
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Views From the Pews – Last Sunday After the Epiphany – February 11, 2024
Brothers & Sisters, The old saying, ‘Time and tide wait for no one’, is true. January has already taken leave of us, and the congregational meetings have come and gone, […]
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Message for Epiphany V, Sunday, February 4, 2024
Reflection on the Gospel reading for today: Mark 1:29-39 In the first part of the gospel reading this morning, people bring Jesus to Simon Peter’s mother-in-law who was in bed […]
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Fourth Sunday of the Epiphany – View from the Pews – January 28, 2024
I share with you a reflection from the Gospel reading for today, Mark 1:21-28. In Mark 1:21-28, we hear of Jesus teaching as a voice of authority rather than as […]