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Podcast: Fear, Hope and Shalom

In this weeks podcast, Ian Mobsby explores the theme of Christ’s Resurrection in John 20:19-31 alongside the calling for hope and risk-taking to replace fear. Shalom, the Jewish theologial understanding of God’s outworking of love in and to the world, becomes the Kingdom of God, and the disciples are challenged to live out this love in the Kingdom, through the peace of God’s Shalom in openness to the world. This is our challenge as emerging and fresh expressions of church, to catch up with what God is already doing. To listen to the podcast click the link below.

 
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Podcast: Easter Day 2010


As we celebrate Christ’s resurrection for this Easter Sunday, we share a short reflection from our Moot Little Service led by Ian Mobsby.

 
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Easter Sunday

If not for Easter,
the chaos of this world
would be all there is
and all there ever would be.
If not for Easter,
the unfairness of life
would drive us to despair.
But God sent the Redeemer
to bring eternal hope
filled with peace, happiness
and unimaginable blessings
to those who follow Him.

Happy, Happy Easter!

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Holy Saturday – Tridium

On this day we remember the loss of Jesus. The day following Good Friday is Holy Saturday. This is usually called Easter Eve in Anglican churches, and is held as a traditional time for baptism services.Presently, this day is primarily a Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, as well as Anglican observance. Roman Catholic churches observe this with the blessing and lighting of a tall Paschal candle. The candle is placed on the altar on the Holy Saturday. While blessing, five grains of incense are fixed in it, representing the five wounds of Jesus and the burial spices with which his body was anointed. This day comes at the end of forty days which mark the period through which Christ showed up himself of and on following the crucifixion. On Ascension Day Christ is believed to have ascended to the heaven.

On this day the Moot Community recommits to its Rhythm of Life in the presence of the Bishop of London in St Paul’s Cathedral.

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Tuesday of Holy Week – Jesus rebukes the Pharisees and Saducees

The Tuesday of the Holy Week is the day when the famous incident between Jesus and Pharisees is remembered. This was when the priests of the Saducees and Pharisees tried to trap Jesus into making a blasphemous, or, anti-god remark.

This day is important also remembered for when Jesus predicted to his disciples, at the Mount of Olives about the destruction of Jerusalem and the signs of the ending of the time of the Church at the Consumation.

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Beginning of Holy Week


Well today is Palm Sunday, and the beginning of the week where we remember Christ’s entry into the passion narrative, of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem that leads to his powerlessness and crucifixion.  Today, we remember the success of the beginning, of crowds shouting Hosanna – ‘Save Me’ to the King of Kings.  They think they are getting a political King who will throw out the Romans, they misunderstand God’s intentions of a God of atonement and not of political might.  I offer an Anonymous poem:

will I lay my cloak before you,

when they arrest you on olive mountain,
or pull it tighter around me,
fading into the ranks of the deserters;
will I shout
‘Blessed is the one who comes
in the name of the Lord!’
when they parade you
before the authorities,
or will I tell any one – and every one – around me
I never met you in my life;
will I lay my palm branches at your feet,
as they march you to Calvary,
or use them to put more stripes
on your bloody back;
will I run behind you
when they carry you to the tomb,
or turn away
as the ashes of my hopes
are rubbed into the
wounds in my heart?
Author Unknown

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Sam Rowland Easter Podcast

Happy Easter to one and all!! Christos Arresti

Today we have published Sam Rowland’s homily by podcast, where he reflects on lament and hope in the context of personal experience. Click here to hear it.

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Ash Wednesday

So, today is Ash Wednesday, the day after Super Shrove Tuesday.

Today is one of the most moving and solemn days of the church calendar, and I have always found the liturgy to be a deep experience. There is something very profound about having ash put on your forehead, and being reminded that you are dust, and that you will return to being dust one day.

Today, St. Matthew’s, Westminster will have 2 masses – first one at 12.30 lead by Ian, and the next one at 6.30pm lead by Peter Hanaway, just before tonight’s community meeting.

See you there.

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Giving up facebook

Last night, the theme of our little service was Lent. As I mentioned, I’m considering giving up facebook for Lent!
I promised to put up a link to Maggi Dawn’s posts concerning Lent, which I’ve found very helpful when thinking about Lent in previous years.

Grace are doing their usual Lent blog – which is always worth a look.

If anyone knows of any other Lent resources, please add them in the comments.

And of course, don’t forget our own Lent course…

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Another Poem from Peter Thomas on the theme of Easter


Busking at Easter

My Good Friday was a bad one.
I carried my guitar’s cross
Along a Northern Line’s Via Dolorosa
To a Central Line’s Golgotha: Chancery Lane
Where I was strung up on my guitar
For public humiliation.

They threw things at me:
Coins, glances; cursed me with their ennui.
And their opinions – my purple robe – divided amongst them.

Signs saying Beware Thieves -
Keep valuables out of sight
Were nailed to the wall either side of me,
To the left and to the right

A mother beheld her son,
As I murdered Amazing Grace
And when I sung Piano Man,
A tear ran away from her face.

And I wailed House of the Rising Sun
And some lads aimed insults at me
But a Yanky tourist said Gee, say Martha,
This guy oughta be on TV

Then when the time came and I’d bled all my sweat
For thirty silver coins and a dime
I laid me down on my way home
But I’ll be back in two days time.

© Peter Thomas 2007

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