The Weeds and the Wheat Together 23 July 2023 St Peter’s Reading: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 The woman was beside herself. She had tried everything to get rid of them but still the dandelions grew in her beautiful lawn. She had tried pulling them out. But they simply grew back. She had tried […]
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Working with God 16 July 2023 St Luke’s Reading: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 We have just celebrated Matariki. Matariki is traditionally the time when we get our gardens ready for the new life of spring. We dig them deeply to be ready for the new life of the new year. The Gospel today is all […]
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Meeting the Risen Christ Transforms our Lives 9 April, 2023 St Peter’s on Easter Day Reading: John 20:1-18 “Early on Sunday morning while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been rolled away.” These words from John’s Gospel echo down to us across […]
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Patronal Festival, St Peter’s 2 July 2023 Reading: Matthew 16:13-20 The man was getting a tour of the circus. What really fascinated him was the elephant. The elephant was fully grown, enormous in fact. But it stood around tethered by a small rope to a simple tent peg. The man looked at the […]
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