Meditations for Holy Week

Mar 25, 2024 by

Mon Mar 25 am: 51 pm: 69:1-23 Jer 12:1-16 Phil 3:1-14 John 12:9-19 MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: For many people, the observation of Holy Week is simply about the Sacred Triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the...

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At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow

Mar 24, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, TCW: THE Prayer Book Epistle reading for today, the Sunday before Easter, is one of the most evocative descriptions of the saving work of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. This ‘Hymn to Christ’, probably a creed or...

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Producers take advice to remove antisemitic themes from passion plays

Mar 24, 2024 by

By Catherine Pepinster, Religion Media Centre: Organisers of passion plays being performed across Britain in the run-up to Easter have been urged to be vigilant about antisemitism in the content. The Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ)...

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Meditations for Holy Week 2024 – Palm Sunday

Mar 24, 2024 by

                                PSALM                OLD TESTAMENT         EPISTLE                 GOSPEL Mar 24 am: 24, 29 pm: 103   am Zech 9:9-12 pm: Zech 12:9- 13:9   1 Tim 6:12-16   Matt 21:12-17 PALM SUNDAY LITURGICAL...

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The Challenge of Easter’s Counter-Cultural Servant King

Apr 8, 2023 by

by Dean Curry, Juicy Ecumenism: In Western Christianity’s liturgical calendar, Eastertide – or the Easter season – begins on Easter day and continues until Pentecost Sunday. The message of Eastertide is nothing less than profound: it is a...

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Holy Week Meditations: Saturday 8 April

Apr 8, 2023 by

Sat Apr 8 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: This is the Blessed Sabbath. The “Great Vigil” is the day which connects Good Friday, the commemoration...

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