Ukraine Psalm 31
As the Russian invasion began, Yaakov Bleich, the Chief Rabbi in Ukraine , invited Christians to join Jews in praying Psalm 31.
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Nightbirde’s Legacy
Jane Marczewski (29.12.1990 – 19.2. 2022) “Nightbirde” had a very positive life and message whilst having cancer for 4 years and going through a divorce. But her perspective was the healthy Christian approach that opposed what she called “toxic positivity”. Listen to these 2 minutes of wisdom in her “Ted Talk from Bed Talk”.
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Lent 2 2022
Transfiguring God,
before the passion of your beloved Son
you revealed his glory on the holy mountain:
grant that we who by faith behold the light of his face
may be strengthened to bear the cross,
and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory;
through the same Jesus Christ
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
Bosco Bows Out
I recently retired after serving for 24 years as Chaplain at Christ’s College, Canterbury (New Zealand) – an Anglican secondary school for boys. The diocesan magazine, AnglicanLife, has published an interview, a snapshot into my IRL ministry.
Lent 1 2022
God of the desert,
Jesus was led by the Spirit
to fast forty days in the wilderness
and was tempted as we are, yet without sin;
give us grace to observe the disciplines of Lent;
and, as you know our weakness,
so may we know your power to save;
through Jesus Christ our Redeemer,
who is alive with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God now and for ever.
Amen.
Ash Wednesday 2022
Ash Wednesday is a solemn focusing on sin, repentance, and our need for forgiveness. Most tend to underplay sin nowadays (and, yes, that’s in reaction to its over-stressing in the past), but Ash Wednesday is a reminder of its dreadful reality.
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Shrove Tuesday 2022
Our contexts are Covid, and in some places war, or other tragedies. What is my appropriate response, your particular response, to prepare, these 40 days, for the the devastation of Good Friday and for the Great News of Easter Day?
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Ash Wednesday and Lent 2022
and forgive the sins of all who are penitent:
create and make in us new and contrite hearts,
that we, worthily lamenting our sins
and acknowledging our wretchedness,
may receive from you, the God of all mercy,
perfect remission and forgiveness;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
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