Sunday, March 29, 2015

Online Bible Meditation


Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of March 29, 2015

March 29 (Palm Sunday): John 11: 45-57
March 30: John 12: 1-8
March 31: Psalm 51: 1-13
April 1: John 12: 12-19
April 2 (Maundy Thursday): John 13: 1-17
April 3 (Good Friday): Luke 23: 44-49
April 4: John 13: 31-35

Saturday, March 28, 2015

On the Way to Holy Week V


Drawing on Living Water

For those who couldn't get to the Lenten Quiet Day at the church, once a week for the next few weeks in this space there will be posted one of the five meditations from scripture, and the associated questions for contemplation.  Pour a cuppa, dig out your Bible and a journal, find a quiet spot, and begin...


The following is the final meditation in this series,
as Holy Week begins tomorrow 


Fifth Meditation 
John 7:37-38

Questions to Ponder
In what ways is Jesus quenching your spiritual thirst today?
What is the living water that flows from your heart?
What changes will you make in your home, 
your work place, 
your place of worship,
 from recognizing the living water that flows from your heart?

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Online Bible Meditation




Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of March 22, 2015

March 22: Psalm 121*
March 23: Psalm 23
March 24: John 8: 1-11
March 25: John 8: 21-30
March 26: Psalm 105: 1-5
March 27: 2 Timothy 2: 1-13
March 28: Psalm 121*
*this is not a typo!

Saturday, March 21, 2015

On the Way to Holy Week IV



Drawing on Living Water

For those who couldn't get to the Lenten Quiet Day at the church, once a week for the next few weeks in this space there will be posted one of the five meditations from scripture, and the associated questions for contemplation.  Pour a cuppa, dig out your Bible and a journal, find a quiet spot, and begin...


Fourth Meditation 
Revelation 7:17

Question to Ponder
What is the new life that Jesus is leading you to?

Saturday, March 14, 2015

On the Way to Holy Week III



Drawing on Living Water

For those who couldn't get to the Lenten Quiet Day at the church, once a week for the next few weeks in this space there will be posted one of the five meditations from scripture, and the associated questions for contemplation.  Pour a cuppa, dig out your Bible and a journal, find a quiet spot, and begin...

Third Meditation 
Mark 1: 9-11 (NIV)

At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.  Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.  And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.

Questions to Ponder
Put yourself on the edge of the water where Jesus is standing before being baptized by John.  What is holding you back from entering the water?
If Jesus invited you to hold His hand and enter the water with Him, what would you do?
What would you say?
Can you leave all your sins, regrets, guilt, shame in the water to float away?
How do you feel stepping out of the water and hearing God say to you,
"My beloved, with you I am well pleased." ?

Online Bible Meditation

*St. Patrick - Wikipedia.com

Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of March 15, 2015

March 15: Romans 6: 1-11
March 16: Psalm 95
March 17: Luke 18: 9-14*
March 18: Mark 8: 14-21
March 19: Ephesians 2: 1-10
March 20: Isaiah 65: 17-21
March 21: Psalm 68: 1-6

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Lenten Taize Worship



Start next weekend off right, easing into it quietly with a service of readings, meditative prayer and song with guitar accompaniment...

You're invited to....

An Evening of Taize Worship

Date: Friday, March 13, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m. - approx. 8:00 p.m.
Location: The Parish of St. Cyprian, 
5005 C&E Trail, Lacombe, AB

Bring a friend! 

Online Bible Meditation



Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of March 8, 2015

March 8: Matthew 21: 33-46
March 9: Jeremiah 17: 5-8
March 10: Luke 16: 19-31
March 11: Psalm 24
March 12: Psalm 17: 1-9
March 13: Hosea 14: 1-9
March 14: Mark 12: 28-34

On the Way to Holy Week II



Drawing on Living Water

For those who couldn't get to the Lenten Quiet Day at the church, once a week for the next few weeks in this space there will be posted one of the five meditations from scripture, and the associated questions for contemplation.  Pour a cuppa, dig out your Bible and a journal, find a quiet spot, and begin...


Second Meditation
John 5: 2-9a (NIV)

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.  
Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 
 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”  At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath...

Questions to Ponder

Do I want to be made well?
In what ways is Jesus asking me to stand up, to get up, to be resurrected?
In what areas in my life have I been unable or unwilling 
to bring myself to the healing waters of Jesus?

Friday, March 6, 2015

Poetry for Not-So-Ordinary Time

Lent is a time when some give up a habit or behaviour...while others take on one (or more).  This poem was broadcast recently on CKUA's "The Road Home", an hour of 'music and spoken word' with host Bob Chelmick.  I thought I'd share it as an example of something that combines both giving something up and taking something on.



Taken from the website, "bentlily", it is written by Canadian poet Samantha Reynolds.


You imagine it will dismantle you
to shed the rage

as though it is the supporting beam
the fuel
the thing that pushes back
against the sorrow

but it is not an ally
it is a sack of rocks
you wear as a coat
making you grey
and small

you don't have to do it publicly
at first

test it on a tree
write it down
say it out loud
under water

but don't let your hands drag the memories
into another year
like a corpse
you won't bury

unfurl those fingers
forgive
you will see that the pain will not drown you
with your hands empty
finally
you will float.

December 30, 2011 - Samantha Reynolds.

Hear her read this poem out loud HERE.