3rd Sunday of Easter Acts 2.14a,36-41; Psalm 116.1-3,10-17; 1 Peter 1.17-23; Luke 24.13-35 THE most important theological question that Christians can ask about their faith is: “Is it true?” The most important historical question that Christians can ask about their fa...

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 19 April 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: Easter Day Acts 10.34-43 or Jeremiah 31.1-6; Psalm 118.1-2,14-24; Colossians 3.1-4 or Acts 10.34-43; John 20.1-18 or Matthew 28.1-10 IN MATTHEW’s resurrection Gospel, Mary Magdalene and another Mary go to the tomb. This is a variation on John’s version, with...

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 5 April 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: Good Friday Isaiah 52.13-53.12; Psalm 22; Hebrews [10.16-25 or] 4.14-16; 5.7-9; John 18.1-19.42 THE Passion is action-packed. People move from scene to scene: garden, prison, palace, hillside. There is violence and cruelty: scourging, mockery, shame. Tense se...

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 3 April 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: Palm Sunday Liturgy of the Palms: Matthew 21.11 Liturgy of the Passion: Isaiah 50.4-9a; Psalm 31.9-16 (31.9-18); Philippians 2.5-11; Matthew 25.14-end of 27 (Matthew 27.11-54) “LOOK, the man!” (John 19.5). On Good Friday, Jesus will hold our gaze to the exclu...

"How can it be that Jesus calls Judas his friend at the very moment when the betrayal is revealed, and while aware that he plans to desert his cause?"

#SundaysReadings Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 29 March: #PalmSunday ✝️

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Sunday’s Readings: 2nd Sunday of Lent Genesis 12.1-4a; Psalm 121; Romans 4.1-5, 13-17; John 3.1-17 JOHN the Evangelist does not do homely chit-chat. I cannot imagine him (or the other evangelists) reporting a conversation between Jesus and his followers about the weather, or what they...

"This week, the Gospel reveals further aspects of his divine identity in a series of statements."

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 1 March

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Sunday’s Readings: Sunday next before Lent Exodus 24.12-end; Psalm 2 (or 99); 2 Peter 1.16-21; Matthew 17.1-9 ON THE Sunday before Lent, Christians prepare for abstinence by means of a vision of light. Only Matthew and Mark describe it in terms of “transfiguration” (in Greek, “metamorphosi...

"God knows us as all that we are, not the edited highlights that we show to others."

#Sundaysreadings Cally Hammond reflects on the #lectionary readings for 15 February: Sunday next before #Lent ✝️

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Sunday’s Readings: 2nd Sunday before Lent Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 8 February

"I saw clearly the remarkable depth of understanding that Jesus shows about how fundamentally we human beings are governed and dominated, even bullied, by our anxieties."

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 8 February ✝️

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Sunday’s Readings: Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 1 February

Cally Hammond reflects on the #lectionary readings for 1 February: Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas)

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Sunday’s Readings: The Conversion of St Paul Jeremiah 1.4-10; Psalm 67; Acts 9.1-22; Matthew 19.27-end AS I prepared to write about the conversion of Paul, I was tempted to comment on Acts 9 as well as the Gospel, even though, for the past two-and-a-bit years, I have been confining myself to...

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 25 January

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Sunday’s Readings: 4th Sunday of Advent Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 21 December

Sunday’s Readings: 4th Sunday of Advent

Cally Hammond reflects on the #lectionary #readings for 21 December

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Sunday’s readings: 3rd Sunday of Advent Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 14 December

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 14 December

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St Bartholomew the Apostle Isaiah 43.8-13; Psalm 145.1-7; Acts 5.12-16; Luke 22.24-30

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for this Sunday 📖

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