Before we return to ordinary time we have another two major Feastdays. Today is the Feast of the Holy Trinity. We now move far away from feasts which commemorate particular events (the birth, death, resurrection, ascension of Jesus) to something much more abstract. In fact so challenging that it took the church about 400 years […]
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The key things we have been told during our Easter season are that the results of the Resurrection, for those who believed, were peace and power. Peace from fear, and power to preach – to preach that Jesus had won the battle against death, the battle against fear. That message reaches its climax today, on
We are inclined to think of the Ascension as the event that finally took Jesus away from this earth, our world, to somewhere else, a place we call heaven. But the gospel writers, at the end of their telling of the story of Jesus’s life, were not really focused on his departing. If anything, quite
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Today, our reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 8:5-8, 14-17) moves us further on from the simplicity of those very earliest days after the Resurrection, when the apostles and a small group of disciples were still all based in and around Jerusalem. Now the church is starting to be dispersed over a wider
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During the first weeks of our Easter season we focused on the effect of the Resurrection, both on those earliest disciples and on ourselves, in all the varied ways that played out and continues to play out. We’ve thought about how all those relationships with God developed: how Peter changed; how Thomas came to experience
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