Month: April 2022

The Resurrection

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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

Easter: living into the story

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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)

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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)

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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

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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

Gethsemene

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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

Pop Up Love

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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