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01/06/2014
Acts 1 Why are you standing looking up towards heaven?
Fr Alec
The poet Philip Larkin was at his best when he was miserable.
25/05/2014
John 14.15 - I will not leave you as orphans
Fr Alec
   
18/05/2014
John 14. 1-14 I am the Way and the Truth and the Life
Fr Alec
 
11/05/2014
John 10 - I came that they may have Life, and have it abundantly
Fr Alec
 
20/04/2014
Death has been swallowed up in victory! Death, where is thy sting? Where, O Grave thy victory?
Fr Alec
   
06/04/2014
John 11 – Let us also go, that we may die with him.
Fr Alec
 
16/03/2014
God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Fr Alec
 
09/03/2014
Just as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all.
Fr Alec
 
05/03/2014
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Fr Alec
 
23/02/2014
Matt 6 - Are you not of more value than they?
Fr Alec
 
02/02/2014
Candlemas Malachi 3.1 ....the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple.
Fr Alec
 
26/01/2014
Follow me, and I will make you Fishers of people
Fr Alec
 
19/01/2014
John 1. 29-42 You shall be called Peter.
Fr Alec
One of the most interesting, but ultimately least satisfying, jobs that I ever held was when I worked in a shop in St Andrews th
05/01/2014
From you will come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.
Fr Alec
   
24/12/2013
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.
Fr Alec
 
22/12/2013
Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man [was] unwilling to expose her to public disgrace.
Fr Alec
 
15/12/2013
Matt 11. 2-11 - What did you go out into the wilderness to see?
Fr Alec
 
08/12/2013
Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.
Fr Alec
   
01/12/2013
Keep awake, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Fr Alec
 Matt 24  
10/11/2013
Remembrance
20/10/2013
Luke 18.1 And will not God grant justice to his Chosen Ones who cry to him day and night?
Not long ago I was listening to a children’s hymn, which went:
14/10/2013
Luke 17 - We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done.
In 1960, the Chatterley trial marked a watershed in British culture.
04/08/2013
And the things you have prepared; whose will they be?
Fr Alec
Why are we here? I am not asking a big existential question, at least not yet.
14/07/2013
Luke 10 See, I send you out as Lambs in the midst of wolves.
Fr Alec
I sometimes think it’s a good job that Jesus didn’t live in the age of Risk Assessments.
07/07/2013
Luke 8. 26-39 They begged him not to order them back into the abyss.
Fr Alec
Hardly a week goes by without some story cropping up in the news denouncing the latest absurdity in the realms either of ‘Health and Safety’ or ‘P

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