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Aboriginal Sunday

28 February 202528 February 2025

Read Mother Linda’s sermon for Aboriginal Sunday, 19 January 2025. Download here.

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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....

Aboriginal Sunday

Read Mother Linda’s sermon for Aboriginal Sunday, 19 January 2025. Download here.

The heart of it all (23 February)

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...

The Beatitudes (16 February)

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...

Following Jesus (9 February)

This week’s gospel (Luke 5: 1–11) gives us pause to think about what it means to follow Jesus. You may have heard me say that our relationship with Evangelism depends on our personal experience and our personality. I am shy by nature, so persuasion and testimony make me feel uncomfortable. However, this gospel gives me...

Farewell to Epiphanytide (Candlemas, 2 February)

This week’s celebration of Candlemas marks the end of the Epiphanytide that bridges Christmas and Ordinary Time. In truth, I feel sadness at letting go of the beauty and joy that accompanies this early part of the year. Our nativity scenes in church have been packed away. I was a Godly Play teacher for many...

The Season of Lent

On Tuesday (‘Shrove Tuesday’) we will be enjoying the traditional pancakes associated with the day before the commencement of Lent. This day is also known as Mardi Gras (meaning ‘Fat Tuesday’), a day for consuming everything from the pantry and having a good time before a restrained and self-denying observance of the Lenten season. This...

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