Among the hard working people of our churches, are our Secretaries; who have to plough through mail, take minutes when required at PCC meetings, chase everyone up when we have meetings, and produce the weekly pew sheets when required. They wear their hats with pride, and we are extremely lucky to have them. People underestimate the amount of work required to keep a church running, but we at RETM are fortunate that the people we have, take on the jobs with a smile, and a strong determination to succeed against the odds.
#WatchAndPray reflections – Happy Easter! Morning Holy Week: Easter Day Alleluia. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. Reading Matthew 17.22-23 As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, ‘The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.’ And they were…
#WatchAndPray reflections – Holy Week: Easter Eve We shall weep Holy Week: Easter Eve Reading Matthew 24.15-27 ‘So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; someone on the housetop must not go down to take what is…
#WatchAndPray reflections – Holy Week: Good Friday All creation weeps Holy Week: Good Friday Reading Matthew 27.45-54 From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ When some of the bystanders heard…
Mary weeps Holy Week: Maundy Thursday Reading John 19.16b-27 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus…
Peter weeps Holy Week: Wednesday Reading Matthew 26.69-75 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant-girl came to him and said, ‘You also were with Jesus the Galilean.’ But he denied it before all of them, saying, ‘I do not know what you are talking about.’ When he went out to the porch, another servant-girl saw him, and she said…
Judas weeps Holy Week: Tuesday Reading Matthew 27.3-10 When Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. He said, ‘I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.’ But they said, ‘What is that to us? See to it yourself.’ Throwing down the pieces of silver in…
#WatchAndPray reflections – Holy Week: Monday Holy Week: Weeping Tears – whether silent or aloud – flow from the deepest of human experiences. Many of these are tears of heartbreak and despair, tears of the abandoned or forsaken. But tears also convey deep love. We will pay attention to the tears shed by Jesus and those around him during this Holy Week.…
#WatchAndPray Lent reflections – Week 5: Weekend Reaching for healing Week 5: Weekend Reading Mark 5.21-34 When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered round him; and he was by the lake. Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged…
Rejecting the source of healing Week 5: Friday Reading Mark 5.14-20 The swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened. They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion; and they…
· #WatchAndPray Lent reflections – Week 5: Thursday Healing society Week 5: Thursday Reading Mark 5.1-13 They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. He lived among the tombs; and no one could…