Sin Nature?
Some people refer to a “sin nature” – this mistranslates and confuses St Paul; it can “spiritualise” a quite physical concept, remove personal responsibility, and confuse the Christian teaching of the full humanity of Jesus.
Resources Advent 2 – 2024
Stir up your power, O God,
and with your great might
come to our aid,
so that where our sins impede us,
the help of your grace may swiftly deliver us,
through Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
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Year C 2025
The church’s new year begins on Advent Sunday, December 1. In the three year lectionary the focus is on St Luke’s Gospel.
Resources Advent 1 – 2024
God of hope,
give us grace to cast away the works of darkness,
and to put on the armour of light,
now in the time of this mortal life,
in the which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
so that that on the last day when he shall come again in his glorious majesty
to judge the living and the dead,
we may rise to the life immortal,
through him who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit now and for ever.
Amen.
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Liturgical Colours
I tend to explain that there is a spectrum from “more a sign” at one end to “more a symbol” at the other end. A sign needs explanation. The liturgical colours are more towards the sign end of the spectrum.
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Resources Reign of Christ the King 2024
Sovereign God,
it is your will to gather up all things
in your beloved one,
reigning in the universe
in the power that is love,
mercifully grant
that the whole of creation,
freed from slavery,
may serve and praise you
through Jesus Christ
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
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Did Jesus Die for All?
Some people believe that Jesus did not die for everyone! And express this in art, and in their understanding of the words used when celebrating and making Christ’s death present in the Eucharist.
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Resources Sunday 17 November 2024 – Ordinary 33
God of inspiration,
you caused all holy scriptures to be written for our instruction,
grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of your holy Word,
we may embrace and ever hold fast to the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who is alive with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God now and for ever.
Amen.
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