Year B / Advent 1

Alternative DigitalOrthodoxy Reflections on Year B / Advent 1: a) Pathways Readings for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Isaiah 64:1-9 (NRSV) 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 (NRSV) Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 (NRSV) Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV) Song ideas for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Together To Celebrate: Year B / Advent 1 Lectionary Song: Year [...]

Year B / Advent 1

Alternative DigitalOrthodoxy Reflections on Year B / Advent 1: a) Snapshots from the War on Drugs Readings for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Isaiah 64:1-9 (NRSV) 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 (NRSV) Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 (NRSV) Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV) Song ideas for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Together To Celebrate: Year B / [...]

Year B / Advent 1

Alternative DigitalOrthodoxy Reflections on Year B / Advent 1: a) Pathways Readings for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Isaiah 64:1-9 (NRSV) 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 (NRSV) Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 (NRSV) Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV) Song ideas for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Together To Celebrate: Year B / Advent 1 Lectionary Song: Year [...]

Year B / Proper 18 / Ordinary 23 / Pentecost 14

Mark 7:24-37 The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she [...]

Transfiguration

Mark 9: 2-13 Mountains. Ah the mountains Where we have stood transfixed and transfigured When the Shekinah is so bright it causes tears When the heat of Presence scalds my bare feet When my heart is so filled it is all of me. With people too We want to stay To build a dwelling for [...]

Epiphany 5 – February 5th

“Both acts (healing and exorcism) defy the symbolic order that segregates those lacking bodily integrity; both challenge the prevailing social boundaries and class barriers. This is why Jesus the healer was a threat to “civic order.””“Jesus’ symbolic acts were powerful not because they challenged the laws of nature, but because they challenged the very structure [...]

Year B / Epiphany 3 Mark 1:14-20 Disentangle

Mark 1:14-20 My reflection on this weeks gospel lectionary is called Disentangle from a bible reading/liturgy/reflective resource I put together called “The Waters Edge”….

Advent 2 -Year B (Mark 1:1-8)

“Prepare the Way of the Lord”… I used this weeks gospel reading as the Call to Worship at Urban Seed: church last Sunday…. This week’s gospel reading is again about the coming of Christ as presented in the prologue of Mark’s story of Jesus. Marks gospel has been very important to me and to Melbourne [...]