Day chaplain
thinking and praying about the challenge of day chaplaincy to be faced tomorrow. Help me to discern what I can and what I cannot do or be to others. Continue reading Day chaplain
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learning enthusiast, Christian, researcher and sheep breeder
Lenten Reflections for Churches Together in Heathfield 2013
A series of five reflections on the hymn by Isaac Watts: When I survey the wondrous cross. These talks are embedded within a short service for all participating places of worship in Heathfield. Lenten Reflection 1 2013 Continue reading Lenten Reflections for Churches Together in Heathfield 2013
Great new website for our parish
Thanks to Derek for setting up a new website for the parish of Old Heathfield. We now have information about events at both churches, All Saints and St George’s. Even uploaded sermons at http://allsaintsoldheathfield.org/media/ Continue reading Great new website for our parish
Cuckoo Trail Sponsored Walk from Heathfield to Horam for Christian Aid
Time for another activity to stay fit and fight poverty! Our second annual sponsored walk organised by the Heathfield Christian Aid group. This is an important way in which we raise funds to fight poverty across the world and last year’s walk was sunny and peaceful. Just 4.5 miles round trip, you can dog walk, cycle, jog or just stroll along this quiet trail off the road around the back of Heathfield and through the countryside to Horam. If your energy gives out half way, then at Horam, Wesson’s cafe offers refreshment and rest. Or if you really can’t … Continue reading Cuckoo Trail Sponsored Walk from Heathfield to Horam for Christian Aid
Thinking about interfaith
A poem by Brigid O’Hara and Ellen Fleming – Our First Task Our first task in approaching Another people Another culture Another religion Is to take off our shoes, For the place we are approaching is holy. As we may find ourselves Treading on another’s dream. More serious still, we may forget… That God was there Before we arrived. Continue reading Thinking about interfaith
Day 10 intercessions at Sea if Galilee
Most gracious God, source of all healing , we give thanks to you for all youIr gifts but most of all for the gift if your Son, through whom you gave and still give health and salvation to all who believe . As we wait in expectation for the coming of that day when suffering and pain shall be no more, help us by your Holy Spirit to be assured if your power in our lives and to trust in your eternal love, through Jesus Christ Amen So many churches, Lord, and temples and synagogues. So many holy places we … Continue reading Day 10 intercessions at Sea if Galilee
Day 11 Return to Jordan and Jerash
We began our final full day with a quiet swim in the outdoor pool next to the Sea of Galilee. The rising sun took a while to break through the cloud, but it was 530am.. Great time and place for bird watching – swallows, sparrows, some kind of tiny bird the length of a wren but thinner, serenaded by pigeons, and over the Sea the egret and the large bird resembling a cormorant or even heron but pure white. Finally we said farewell to the most beautiful region of Galilee where so much of Jesus’ ministry had taken place and … Continue reading Day 11 Return to Jordan and Jerash
Day 10 Sea of Galilee
Sunrise over the Golan Heights across the Sea of Galilee. An early moment of quiet with my feet washed by the Sea and the fish clustering around the shore. Jesus became real at that point, looking out over the freshwater sea in Galilee, uncertain how but knowing what he had to do, pulled from this quiet beauty into the world of human pain to preach and teach. We began our day in Galilee at Mensa Christi, a dark basalt church on the shore of the lake where the resurrected Jesus is said to have appeared to the disciples as they … Continue reading Day 10 Sea of Galilee
Day 9 Abu Ghosh and Nazareth
By comparison with yesterday we seem to have done little today. No complaints, it was lovely to reach the new hotel in Tiberias by mid afternoon, with a balcony view of the Sea of Galilee. But first after leaving Jerusalem we drove to Abu Ghosh, said to be the place where the disciples met the resurrected Jesus on the road to Emmaus. The most beautiful garden planted with palms and every kind of flowering bush led to a church of great calm, built by the Crusaders in 11th century and still filled with the loveliest paintings on walls, arches and … Continue reading Day 9 Abu Ghosh and Nazareth
Day 8 Bethlehem
We had been prepared for a commercialised Bethlehem but not for the wonder of it. The day began with the short drive from Jerusalem to Herodium – an extraordinary desert palace fortress of Herod the Great- set on a small hill with a manmade hill built up around it. Effectively Herod moved a mountain – our guide Saffiq suggested this could clearly be seen from the southern teaching steps where Jesus spoke about faith moving mountains – possibly a remark with such particular local significance. Herod’s palace is still very clear inside his manmade mountain, as are the traces of … Continue reading Day 8 Bethlehem
Learning to be Christian 