Weekly messages
Take care! (2 March)
Dear Friends,
This week’s gospel has a deceptively simple message that we can paraphrase: take care of who you follow! It is interesting that that the phrase ‘Take care’ has become a prosodic feature of our social interaction. It’s a kind of social lubricant. People use it constantly as a way to end a conversation. However, these words hold a deeper meaning for us. They are embedded in our gospel along with fast-moving images to make the point that we should build strong foundations for life based in relationship with God. Given the state of our world, such encouragement is timely!
I hope many of you will join us on Shrove Tuesday for pancakes at St James at 7.30. A lovely occasion for fellowship.
I hope you have been giving some consideration to reading the book I have chosen for Lent, The Heart of It All by Sam Wells. There is a sign-up sheet at the back of the churches. The parish will subsidise the cost of this book, only $15.00 for parishioners. Others are welcome to join us – contact me for further details.
Love and blessings,
Linda
Dear Friends, This week’s gospel has a deceptively simple message that we can paraphrase: take care of who you follow! It is interesting that that the phrase ‘Take care’ has become a prosodic feature of our social interaction. It’s a kind of social lubricant. People use it constantly as a way to end a conversation….
Dear Friends, Of recent weeks, our gospel readings have offered strands that merge into an important theme. We should love our enemies. How hard it is to embrace that notion! The human heart wants to rail against it. Anger so easily bubbles to the surface. We heard the statement from the prophet Jeremiah in our…
This week we revisit the Beatitudes. I wonder what sort of relationship you have with these statements of faith. The Beatitudes could be used as a justification of suffering. Such an approach encourages a life focused on eternity. Current hardships will be rewarded in heaven. We should take careful heed of Jesus’ teaching, but I…
Recommended reading
Some reflections and reading recommended by the Vicar.
Read Mother Linda’s sermon for Aboriginal Sunday, 19 January 2025. Download here.
Read Mother Linda’s sermon on Christ the King, 24 November 2024. Download the pdf:
Read Mother Linda’s sermon for the First Sunday of Advent, 1 December 2024, on how we need to live in God’s time. Download the pdf here: