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The Last Sunday after Epiphany (Transfiguration); Matthew 17:1-9

I want to tell you a folk tale from Eastern Europe, but it could be from anywhere, even here. A young man is sitting under a tree outside a village, waiting for Mary, a young woman from a neighbouring village, coming for a dance. He thinks,      “Waiting, just waiting is really boring!” And immediately, there’s […]

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The Eve of the Epiphany of the Lord; Matthew 2:1–12

The time is a little more than 2000 years ago. High on the plains of Persia a scholar, we would call him an astrologer or the Greek name magus (plural magi), is intensely studying the night sky. There was no doubt about it anymore. Night after night it has appeared in exactly the same place […]

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The 1st Sunday of Advent; Matthew 24:36-44

In the silence of a midwinter dusk there is far off in the deeps of it somewhere a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You walk up the steps to the front door. The empty windows […]

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The 20th Sunday After Pentecost; Luke 18:9-14

Back in the day when I was a parish priest in Scarborough I had a colleague who liked to get the Sunday School to act out parables when they were part of the Gospel instead of actually reading the text. He once told me about the problem he had with the Good Samaritan. Everybody wanted […]

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The 10th Sunday after Pentecost; (Luke 12:49-56), Luke 1:46-55

The Revised Common Lectionary tells us what the Sunday readings are, and what the “wiggle” room is! Holy Days take over a normal Sunday, if they fall on a Sunday. But also, Holy Days may be transferred, but only to the next Sunday. Tomorrow is an important Holy Day that doesn’t often fall on a […]

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