The Resurrection
In the silence of death we lost the wordand dark-shuttered days filled with empty sighs;while, out of our sight, the walls of hell stirredand long-abandoned eyes began to rise.Night voices … Read more
Month: April 2022
Easter Blessings – and Thanks
On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry – … Read more
Easter: living into the story
Easter Sunday April 17 2022 St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Indooroopilly Fr Richard Browning Introduction This is the day. This is the day. This is the day that makes sense of … Read more
Eat this dream (part two, Good Friday)
Maundy Thursday Good Friday Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14 Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12 Psalm 116.1-2, 11-18 Psalm 22.1-20 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 John 13.1-17, 31b-35 John 18.1-19.42 Eat this dream … Read more
Eat this dream (part one, Maundy Thursday)
SERMON Maundy Thursday Good Friday Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14 Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12 Psalm 116.1-2, 11-18 Psalm 22.1-20 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 John 13.1-17, 31b-35 John 18.1-19.42 Eat this … Read more
Father Forgive
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke 23:34 Father forgive, and so forgiveness flows;Flows from the very wound our hatred makes,Flows through the taunts, … Read more
The story that won’t be silenced
Palm Sunday – 10 April 2022 Luke 19: 28-40 | Philippians 2: 5-11 | Psalm 31.9-18 | Luke 23:1-49 ©Suzanne Grimmett Flannery O’Connor once said, “A story is a way … Read more
Gethsemene
by Mary Oliver The grass never sleeps.Or the roses.Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning.Jesus said, wait with me. But the disciples slept.The cricket has … Read more
The fragrance of full attention
Lent V: 3 April, 2022 St Andrews’ Anglican Church, Indooroopilly Isaiah 43.16-21; Ps 126; Philippians 3.4b-14; John 12.1-8 By Richard Browning Introduction It was to be a wonderful day for … Read more
Pop Up Love
Nearly the end of March… I wake again to the drumming of rain on the roof… My heart sinks… Brisbane has been promised a dry day… a reprieve, a time … Read more