Suggestion for Daily Use

Follow the ‘Daily Prayer’ at the side+++Suivez le ‘Prière Quotidienne’. Read the bible passages and then the meditation. Pray, tell God how you felt about the reading and share the concerns of your life with him. Maybe you will continue the habit after Lent. Lisez les passages bible et après la méditation. Priez, dites à Dieu que vous avez ressenti à propos de la lecture et de partager les préoccupations de votre vie avec lui. Peut-être que vous allez continuer l'habitude après le Carême. Daily Prayer Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. Luke 4.1-2 Now is the healing time decreed For sins of heart, of word or deed, When we in humble fear record The wrong that we have done the Lord. (Latin, before 12th century) Read: Read the Bible passage. Read the meditation Pray: Talk to God about what you have just read. Tell him your concerns - for yourself, your family, our church family, our world. Praise him. Pray the collect for the week – see next pages. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Prière Quotidienne Jésus, rempli de l'Esprit Saint, revint du Jourdain et le Saint-Esprit le conduisit dans le désert où il fut tenté par le diable durant quarante jours. Luc 4.1-2 Maintenant le temps de la guérison est décrété Pour les péchés du cœur, de la parole et des actes, Lorsque nous nous souvenons avec humilité Le mal que nous avons fait au Seigneur. Lire : Lisez le passage de la Bible. Lisez la méditation. Prier : Parlez avec le Seigneur de ce que vous avez lu. Parlez-lui de vos préoccupations pour vous-même, votre famille, notre famille de l’église, notre monde. Louez-le. Priez la collecte pour la semaine. Voyez les pages suivantes Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur ! Que tout qui est en moi bénisse son saint nom. Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur, et n’oublie aucun de ses bienfaits !

14 April 2019

Sunday 14 April, Palm Sunday - ‘Wee de mens die hem zal uitleveren’/‘Woe to him’




On Palm Sunday we often read the whole Passion story from beginning to end,
from the triumphant entry into Jerusalem until the crucifixion. This extract pauses at surely one of the most excruciating moments for Jesus as he sets his own imminent death in the context of the fulfilment of covenant promises enacted in the Passover meal he shares with his disciples. This is excruciating because of the presence among them of the one who will betray him. Luke has warned his readers earlier that this is coming but it is still a tense moment as the joy and friendship of a shared meal are overturned, and divine and human agency meet in a stand-off between love and treachery. Judas serves God’s ancient purpose but must also take responsibility for his own actions. And so it still goes. God has a plan and purpose for each of us, and yet we have choices to make as we go through life. Could Judas have made a different choice? I believe so. In that case the plans of God would have been fulfilled another way. Any of us who has ever made a choice or a decision we regret can surely spare a few moments today to weep for Judas, driven to despair by his act of betrayal. Conscious of the ways in which we too betray Jesus through our own wrong-headed and self-centred choices we will hopefully resist condemning him. Unlike with Peter, the denier of Jesus, we have no biblical account of a reconciliation between Judas and Jesus, but I am in no doubt that Jesus forgave him and the choice he made, as he forgives each one of us.

Suggested listening: https://youtu.be/ihxX-s5mu0M

‘Dido’s Lament (Remember me, but, ah, forget my fate)’ Henry Purcell sung by Joyce DiDonato

Jane McBride

Judas kissing Christ surrounded by soldiers; St Peter attacking Malchus in foreground, after Dürer


Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?)), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Henry Walters, 1917, www.metmuseum.org


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