Year B Gadarene Chess 29 Jan 20243 Feb 2024 Mark 5:1-20 In a game of chess, you have to make sacrifices to win. A great master will sometimes sacrifice a surprising number of pieces in order to save one…
Year B The Untameable Authority of Christ 28 Jan 20243 Feb 2024 Today's Gospel is all about the authority of Christ. Our time is deeply suspicious of authority. Perhaps you yourself have had bad experiences of authority. A teacher who just affirmed…
Ordinary Time 4th Sunday-A Word that is New 26 Jan 202410 Feb 2024 Moses shown the Promised Land, Benjamin West Deut 18:15-20, Mark 1:21-28 Reading Mark’s gospel in some ways is the difference between someone describing what it is like to be in…
Ordinary Time… 3rd Sunday – God is Serious about You 20 Jan 20243 Feb 2024 Jonah 3:1-10 The Book of Jonah, which we read today is one of the most beautifully crafted, profound books of the Bible - and at the same time, completely hilarious.…
Year B Into the Miry Depths – the Baptism of Christ 8 Jan 202418 Feb 2024 To understand the Baptism of Christ, we need to understand the symbolism of the waters for the Jewish mind. They had a strongly threatening connotation, symbolising chaos and nothingness. Think…
Year B Epiphany 8 Jan 20243 Feb 2024 Often the magi are depicted as coming from a variety of cultures and races. Now although it’s historically unlikely that they came from different races – they were probably Babylonians…