Sixth Sunday After Trinity
‘You don’t have to be nice, but do try to be kind.’ This was advice given to me at my first week at theological college, in the opening address by the chaplain. He addressed the new students and told us, ‘you don’t need to be nice, but do try to be kind.’ Those words have stayed with my ever since, and I think they may be quite profound.
Fourth Sunday After Trinity
Like many passages of the prophets, our Old Testament reading from Zechariah sets out a vision of the future, defined by peace. From Zion, a righteous king shall reign, ‘and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.’ This king will abolish the weapons of war — the ‘chariot’ and ‘war horse’ and ‘battle bow’.
Third Sunday After Trinity
As we’ve heard in the gospel readings over the past weeks, Jesus has been preparing his disciples for the sort of reaction their ministry will provoke. It will rouse opposition from religious and political authorities who resent the challenge it brings to their power and status. It will provoke crises in families, as the meaning of relationship and kinship is redrawn through baptism and belonging in the Christian community. There will be hatred and suffering and persecution in Christ’s name – for the way of the disciple is the way of the master, and we know that the way of Jesus is the way of the cross.
Second Sunday After Trinity
We’ve recently bought a new bible for our household, as if you might think we didn’t have enough already. But this is a different sort of bible. It is called “The Cleaning Bible” by Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie, Kim and Aggie’s complete guide to household management. Lockdown has meant we’ve had to say good bye to our cleaner and we’ve been trying to learn the best way to clean the house ourselves…
First Sunday After Trinity
Each week we confess in the Creed that we believe in ‘one holy catholic and apostolic church’. Today’s Gospel gives us an insight into what we mean when we affirm that the church is apostolic.
Trinity Sunday
Today is the Feast of the Holy Trinity. It’s an odd day. Most of the feasts of the Church celebrate particular events, like the birth of Jesus or his resurrection. Other feasts celebrate saints, people in whom God was visibly at work. But today’s feast celebrates God himself.