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Tag: Lent

  • Go simply in your spirit

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    Peter Sidebotham
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    Holy Week. The excitement of Palm Sunday and Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem The culmination of three years of journeying The perplexity of those last days The anguished grief of Good Friday The empty waiting…     We journey this week with some of the women who had accompanied Jesus over those three years, and who…

  • Go simply with your culture

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    Peter Sidebotham
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    Tomorrow is the start of the fifth week of Lent.   Our prayer this week is that we may hear our heart’s truth. Can we live within our culture yet challenge it? Can we learn from Nicodemus, the Pharisee, who came to Jesus in the dead of night?           Click here…

  • Go simply in your lifestyle

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    Peter Sidebotham
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    As we enter the fourth week of Lent, we will spend time looking at the Bethany family: Mary, Martha and Lazarus.  We will encounter their vulnerability, their love, their hospitality.  We will think about our fragile, vulnerable world, and how we can go simply in our lifestyles, combining active care and contemplative devotion, careful stewardship and…

  • Go simply with yourself

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    Peter Sidebotham
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    Tomorrow begins the third week in Lent.  During this week we will journey with Mary Magdalene: Mary, the one afflicted by seven demons; Mary, the one set free; Mary, the one whose name Jesus spoke – tenderly, lovingly.   We are invited to simply be ourselves, not needing an exciting lifestyle, busy schedules, comfort foods,…

  • Go Simply: Reflections for Lent

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    Peter Sidebotham
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    A series of Lenten reflections to attend to our doing and being, the active and contemplative         Traditionally, there are 40 days of Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (not counting the Sundays of Lent), which means February 18 to April 4 in 2015.  Starting from Ash Wednesday, 18th February, we…