Who loves longest?
Isaiah 62:6-12 Psalm 97 Titus 3:4-8a Luke 2.8-20 Monday 25 December 2023 Who loves longest? ©Suzanne Grimmett The Risk of Birth, (Christmas 1973) by Madeleine L’Engle This is no time … Read more
Peace? It’s all in pieces!
Christmas Eve Isaiah 9:2-7 Psalm 96 (vv. 1,2, 9-13) Titus 2.11-14 Luke 2.1-20 Sunday 24 December 2023 ©Suzanne Grimmett Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace… … Read more
So let it be a tale
Advent 3 17 December 2023 Rev’d Richard Browning Readings: Isaiah 61.1-4, 8-11 The Song of Mary (Magnificat) 1 Thessalonians 5.12–28 John 1.6–8, 1.19–28 (These are the expanded notes behind the … Read more
A beginning
Isaiah 40.1-11 Psalm 85.1-2, 8-13 2 Peter 3.8-15a Mark 1.1-8 ©Suzanne Grimmett If everything that ever existed in the universe is measured and tracked on a 24- hour clock, it … Read more
The Harsh Master
Judges 4:1-10Psalm 1231 Thessalonians 5:1-11Matthew 25:14-30 ©Richard Fay There is an old Jewish story about two rabbis endlessly arguing over a passage in the Torah. “It must surely be interpreted … Read more
Love that does not end
©Suzanne Grimmett Liturgy for All Souls Romans 8. 31-39 John 15: 9-17 Love is the command. But how can love be commanded? Surely love is more something that is beckoned…invited, … Read more
Showing up in the arena
Feast of All Saints Revelation 7.9-17 Psalm 34.1-10,22 1 John 1.1-3 Matthew 5.1-12 Sunday 5th of November 2023 ©Suzanne Grimmett Sometimes our most beloved stories tell us what it … Read more
The triadic lens of love
©Suzanne Grimmett It seems the Gospel reading for this stewardship Sunday gets straight to the heart of everything- love God, love our neighbour. May sound simple, but when we … Read more
The hidden wholeness at the heart of everything
Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 33:12-23 Psalm 99 1 Thessalonians 1.1-10 Matthew 22.15-33 Sunday 22 October 2023 ©Suzanne Grimmett How do you, in your life, give to God what … Read more