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turning aside
As some of us travelled yesterday to witness a new dawn breaking for the cathedral and for Bro Deiniol in Bangor, what will the spring sunshine bring to Bangor and in Kathy’s Ministry we wonder? I noticed the brightness of the mountains dusted with a little snow and reflected on the first line of a…
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Maintaining the Container
To put this gospel reading into its context: Luke tells us that Jesus has just survived the temptations of the Devil in the wilderness. He goes out teaching and preaching with the zeal of a new curate sprung from the rigours of theological college and imposed upon a parish for good or ill. However, the…
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A little full, a little lost?
You might remember me saying that you would find me plodding through advent. It was not a reflection of the tasks of the time of year. The same is true for Christmas and Epiphany, and if the truth be told, the whole year. I’m not in any great hurry to see it pass. For me…
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It is soooo much more than a bag, I mean – Baby!
Each year amidst high tension and deepest secrecy the world waits in trepidation barely able to contain its excitement and in great anticipation of what the designers and creative minds will reveal – too soon and you’ll forget it, too late and it will be lost – for unto us will come, to us is…
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Giving Ourselves Away
Lucy Winkett ended thought for the day this past Tuesday with the challenge to ‘give ourselves away’. Lucy is rector of St. James’ Piccadilly. Had I the chance to be in London over Christmas I would make time to go there to see the art installation by Arabella Dorman. It includes a dingy which arrived…
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Gaudete Rejoice
Gaudete – Rejoice. You brood of vipers? Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Do these go together? They ought to! As the French Foreign minister struck his gavel to mark the agreement of the deal on climate change, he could have cited Luke ch3 as he sent the delegates home. A…
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The St Nicholas Claus
If I wore an elf’s hat, rang some sleigh bells, cried Ho Ho Ho and offered gifts, you might recognise the signs of a jolly bearded fellow who haunts shopping centres and visits many a Christmas fayre during December. You might not however, think of St. Nicholas, but of course they are, or were, one…
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Plodding through Advent
You will find me plodding through Advent. In all honesty I don’t suppose I was a patient child. Waiting, especially in anticipation of Christmas is not something children are supposed to be good at. I guess some adults are not that good at it either! Waiting is a learned art. However, Advent offers us an…
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Fisher King
There are few stories that endure retelling quite as much as those of Arthurian legend and few even within that realm that have been told in countless forms anew for each generation. There is one though that returns again and again. It might not be the one which springs to mind immediately for the feast…
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Heart and Stone
So the Jerusalem scene we are offered in Mark’s Gospel is not so far from home this weekend as violence spreads across the capital of France. It will only fuel the divisions of East and West. As Ghandi said: ‘An eye for an eye leaves us both blind.’ Such violence is also seen on the…