
St Stephens
- Aug 22, 2021
Thought for the week - 22 August
Gospel reading John 6: 56-69 Well, here we are, back to grumbling again! Didn’t take long did it! This time Jesus’s disciples are troubled because they find the teaching of Jesus just too hard; so hard that many of them fall away. Even the closest disciples say that the sayings of Jesus are just too much. So, What is it that the disciples find so hard? Let’s look at the Gospel and see. Jesus says, “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.” In anoth

Fr Andrew
- Aug 15, 2021
Thought for the week - The Assumption
The commemoration of the death of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the Dormition, or falling asleep, as it was known in the East) is known as the Assumption because of the tradition that her body did not decay but that she was raised up, body and soul, into heaven. This tradition was already present in the sixth century; by the beginning of the twentieth century, it was widespread; and after consulting the views of bishops all over the world, in 1950 Pope Pius 12th formally and infal

Fr Andrew
- Aug 8, 2021
Thought for the week - 8 August
Trinity 10. Gospel John 6: 35 & 41-51 In today’s gospel, John picks up, or rather continues, Jesus’ theme of The Bread of Life – a wonderful theme, a wonderful theology, about which Fr Harry preached so eloquently last Sunday – thank you Father. But there is another continued theme hidden away in the readings. It is the theme of grumbling, murmuring, or in our gospel today, complaining. Last week, it was the Israelites grumbling about their lot in the desert. They had been re

Fr Harry
- Aug 1, 2021
Thought for the week - 1 August
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. During the current recession people may cut back on many things that they don’t need or cannot afford; but one thing we cannot do without is food and drink. We can reduce it a bit, or buy cheaper and simpler food, but we cannot cut it out completely. We need food: we cannot do without it. And food means much more to us than petrol does to