Reflection of the Week - 23rd April 2024
While I claim no expert knowledge when it comes to sheep, I did find myself relating to Jesus in his role as the Good Shepherd in today's gospel (21st April).
Reflection of the Week - 6 April 2021
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When confronted by what is hard to hear, shocking to consider, grieving to know, difficult to understand, it is often much easier to not believe it at all. Then, in anxiety, fear and shame, choose to ridicule the truth-teller.
‘They did not believe her’ is a silent echo around our country even now. It is haunting to hear this phrase and that it continues to live on. Wholly undeserved, and brazen in riposte to honest statements, the underlying message ‘They did not believe her’ shatters the connecting space between people as if splintering glass.
As we celebrate Jesus’ life and death and life again, and recall the Way he shows us to live, let us hear again Jesus believed in her, healed her, appeared first to her, and commissioned her to go share the Good News. May our renewal from this Easter period follow Jesus’ Way, of respect, listening, seeking, understanding, accompanying, discussing and breaking our fasting souls with the Bread of Life together.
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Reflection of the Week - 16th April 2024
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