Holy Week Meditations

Mar 30, 2024 by

Sat Mar 30 am: 95, 88 pm 27 Job 19:21-27a am: Heb 4:1-16 pm: Rom 8:1-11   – HOLY SATURDAY LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: There is no liturgy on Holy Saturday. We spend the day reflecting upon the powerful reality of Jesus’...

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The Church of England’s bureaucracy has forgotten its mission

Mar 29, 2024 by

by Sarah Ingham, Conservative Home: Polly and Gerald entered a packed church last weekend, delighting the congregation which was celebrating Palm Sunday. Trampling on the palm fronds scattered across the aisle, the two donkeys behaved...

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The true Saviour of the whole world

Mar 29, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, TCW: THE Prayer Book reading for today, Good Friday, from John’s Gospel reveals the profound irony in Pontius Pilate’s refusal to change the inscription on Jesus’s cross from a declaration of objective truth to a...

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Holy Week Meditations

Mar 29, 2024 by

Fri 29 am: 95, 22 pm: 40, 54 Gen 22:1-14 1 Pet 1:10-20 am: Jn 13:36-38 pm: Jn 19:38-42 GOOD FRIDAY LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: Today the whole Church mourns the death of our Savior. This is traditionally a day of sadness, spent in...

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King lauds friendship ‘in time of need’ in first comments since princess’s diagnosis

Mar 28, 2024 by

by Sammy Gecsoyler, Guardian: Pre-recorded message for Maundy service in Worcester Cathedral will be played as Camilla stands in for monarch. King Charles will highlight the importance of friendship “in a time of need” on Thursday in his...

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Meditations for Holy Week

Mar 28, 2024 by

Thur Mar 28 am: 102 pm: 142, 143 Ex 12:1-8,11-14 1 Cor 11:23-26 John 13:1-15 MAUNDY THURSDAY LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY:  Holy Thursday is also known as “Maundy Thursday.” The word maundy comes from the Latin...

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