This blog provides a meditation on the revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news: CANADIAN BISHOPS CALL FOR SEXUAL RESTRAINT (“Impurity alone or with others” Oh, yes, you’ll go blind.) 2 Timothy 3:1-17 3You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. 2For people will be lovers of […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news. SPECULATORS THREATEN PORTUGESE DEBT  2 Timothy 2:14-26 14 Remind them of this, and warn them before God that they are to avoid wrangling over words, which does no good but only ruins those who are listening. 15Do your […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news BRITISH IRAQI MAN TORTURED IN IRAQI JAIL (This headline reminds us that in spite of what T. Blair or D. Rumsfeld say, the invasion of Iraq only succeeded in replacing a well-organised tyranny with a disorganised one, at […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news: BIRD KILLS MAN AT US COCKFIGHT 2 Timothy 1:1-14 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the sake of the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, my beloved […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news: SUMO WRESTLING FIX SCANDAL Galatians 6:11-18 11 See what large letters I make when I am writing in my own hand! 12It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh that try to compel […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news: CCTV EXPOSES CRUELTY IN BRITISH ABATTOIRS Galatians 5:25-6:10 25If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.  My friends, if anyone […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news: “’ADULTERY’ GIRL DIES AFTER WHIPPING” GALATIANS 5:16-24 16 Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires […]

This blog provides a meditation on The Revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news. “RUMSFELD- NO REGRETS ON IRAQ” GALATIANS 5: 1-15 51For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.2 Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let […]

“EGYPTIANS NEAR FREEDOM” This blog provides a meditation on the Revised Common Lectionary along with a headline from world news Galatians 4:21-31. 21 Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman […]

PERU FAILS TO PROTECT UNCONTACTED TRIBE Feast of St Brigid Galatians 4:12-20 12 Friends, I beg you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong. 13You know that it was because of a physical infirmity that I first announced the gospel to you; 14though my […]