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The healing of the blind man, Mark 8:22-26. February 19, 2020 by Buckshot

Nga mihi nui ki a koutou, rangimarie ki a tatou katoa. Warm greetings, may peace be with us all. Welcome again to our Wednesday gospel reflection, our text this week is Mark 8:22-26. The healing of a blind man at Bethsaida. This is another interesting and inviting gospel text. Coming to Bethsaida marks the end […]

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Be aware of traditions that defile us, Mark 7:14-23, February 12, 2020 by Corky

Dia Dhuit ( Hello in Irish), Greetings from the Island of Ireland to you all who come across this page. God’s Word of instruction comes to us today from the Gospel account of Mark. We find ourselves in Chapter 7: particularly verses 14 to 23, but dipping back into the earlier passages of the Chapter […]

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Jesus visits Nazareth, Mark 6:1-6. February 5, 2020 by Buckshot

Ata marie e hoa ma, rangimarie ki a koutou katoa. Good morning friends, may peace be with you all. Today’s gospel is Mark 6:1-6a. A visit to Nazareth. Since last week Mark has been recalling some more of Jesus’ teaching about seeds and the Kingdom of God. Today he writes about Jesus arriving back home. […]

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Are you Listeneing? Mark 4:1-20. January 29, 2020 by Sean

Warmest greetings from South Wales. In this week’s reading from Mark’s gospel, Mark 4:1-20, we find Jesus surrounded by such a huge crowd of people he climbs into a boat and pulls away from the shore a short distance to address everyone. It was probably on a stretch of coast between Capernaum and Tabgha where […]

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Jesus heals on the Sabbath, Mark 3:1-6. January 22, 2020 by Buckshot

Nga mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa hoki, ma te atua te atawhai me te rangimarie ki a koutou. Warm greetings to you again, may the grace and peace of God be with you all. Welcome to the western Julian calendar new year, I hope you have been refreshed by whatever break you have had […]

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Jesus birth, Luke 2:1-14, Wednesday December 25 by Isak

En välsignad jul till er alla, systrar och bröder i Kristus. Today’s text is from Luke, 2:1-14, the story of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, you have all heard it, whether you count yourself as Christian or not. It’s the story that is read in schools, churches, homes, gatherings and so on, to give us the […]

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Jesus and Genealogies, Matthew 1:18-24. December 18, 2019 by Buckshot

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou; nga mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa. Deep love and Greetings to you all again, today our gospel is Matthew 1:18-24. We are three-quarters of the way through advent now, the birth of Jesus is fast approaching… Our text today really begins with yesterday’s text, the list of the […]

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The lost sheep, Matthew 18:10-14. December 11, 2019 by Barro

Womin-Jeka, (which is the local Wurundjeri indigenous phrase for welcome in my part of Australia) sisters and brothers and warm greetings from a hot Melbourne summer’s day. I trust all is well in your world in the lead up to Christmas. Today’s gospel text comes from Matthew 18:10 -14 where Jesus tells the parable of […]

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Cures by the lake and the second miracle of the loaves, Matthew 15:29-37. December 4, 2019 by Buckshot

Nga mihi maioha e hoa ma, rangimarie ki a koutou katoa. Greetings to you friends, may peace be with you all. The church calendar has just rolled over to the beginning of a new year with the start of Advent the other day. Advent; that time of hopeful waiting and expectancy, when we prepare to […]

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Jesus and persecution, Luke 21:12-19. November 27, 2019 by Nigel

Greetings from Leicester Today we find both a sobering and encouraging passage from Luke 21:12-19. Our reading comes within the context of Jesus’ warnings, of false messiahs, wars and rumours of wars, earthquakes, famines, and the destruction of the second Jerusalem temple, which happened in A.D 70, following its original destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 […]

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