Saint Andrew
Everliving God,
your apostle Andrew obeyed the call of your Son
and followed him without delay;
grant that we like him may give ourselves readily
to do what you command;
through our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.
November 2021
The Good Samaritan
You may be interested in my reflection video that I just produced on The Good Samaritan.
Covid and Chalice
Currently, Covid has put paid to the chalice at Communion.
And, I’m sorry, this article is not going to solve the issue – but it may help outline some of the problems, some of the suggested solutions, and problems with some of the solutions. It may help people, at least, to see that this is not straightforward.
Year C 2022
The church’s new year begins on Advent Sunday, November 28. In the three year lectionary the focus is on St Luke’s Gospe
Resources for Advent 1
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 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.
Time and Tenses
Biblical Hebrew does not have a future tense. Have you thought that English forms our “future tense” by cobbling together bits to do so?
Mark in Slow Motion 16
‘No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.’
New Zealand Lectionary 2022
I am delighted that in 2022’s Lectionary booklet, the full collection of collects that I was asked to draft, is included. Six persons were asked to produce traditional, Trinitarian collects connected to the Gospel reading. For Year C, I was asked to produce collects for Ordinary Time.