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All Age Meditation - Palm/Passion Sunday, the 2nd April 2023 On Palm Sunday Jesus journeys into Jerusalem. As he enters the gate of the city he starts a journey we now call Holy Week. It is no easy voyage. We too are invited to travel through these days ahead until we meet again here at... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- My last meditation -before the end of last year- was about setting targets for the New Year (Read the meditation here). Today, three months later, I would like to reflect on a topic which is very close to my family and professional life: Setting priorities... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, March 26, 2023 Reading: John 11:1-45 We are at the latter end of Lent. On Passion Sunday we look more intently at the cross and ask a very important question- Who is this Jesus to me? The New Testament lesson read to us is the familiar story of the raising of Lazarus.... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- “Here is the Church and there is the steeple. Open the door and see all the people.” Many of us learned this fun little rhyme complete with hand motions as children. It was one of the first lessons we learned about what the church was.... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the March 19, 2023 Greetings dear friends As we are aware the fourth Sunday of Lent is celebrated as Mothering Sunday. Traditionally it was about the journey to your mother church from which you had moved for various reasons. In diaspora contexts it was called Nesting Sunday- since the churches were nests... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- We are midway through Lent. Of the many images that flash on my mind when I think of Lent, one that stands out, is an experience in an orphanage in my home city. All the hundred children resident there asked for a self-denial piggy bank.... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It’s been a month now since the worst earthquake in centuries shook Southern Turkey and Northern Syria, killing women, children, and men, most of them in their sleep. Only hours later, rescue teams were already on their way. Among the first to arrive on the... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday the 5th of March 2023 Vinod Victor with Dinesh Suna Water is crucial to our existence. The story of Abraham is replete with the imagery of water and an attempt to weave a collage of those would be a good preparation for a much deeper discussion on water. Today we have with... Continue Reading →
Of the many exciting events we are looking forward to in March, one is the Nesting Sunday, a variant way of looking at the Mothering Sunday, which falls on the fourth of Lent. Psalm 84 is attributed to the Korahittes and is a splendid imagery of what it means to be in the House of... Continue Reading →
February 22, 2023 Reading: John 8:1-11 Is there a stone in my hand? People were picking up stones. I picked one too. I looked up Outside the temple Was a crowd. I looked again. In the crowd was a woman. What were these stones for? They were to stone that woman. Why did they want... Continue Reading →
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