Diocese of Oxford

Sunday Morning (Page 7)

People of the resurrection

Gospel   Luke 20.27–38    Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke 27 Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him 28and asked him a question, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise…

Why do I pray?

Gospel    Luke 18.1–8    Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke 1Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. 2He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. 3In that city there was a widow…

Bloom where you are planted

Jeremiah 29.1,4–7 These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom…

The fruits of the spirit abound here

Gospel        John 6.25-35 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’ 26Jesus answered them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you…

Let this place be overflowing with compassion!

Gospel        Luke 16.19–31  Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke  19 ‘There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the…

Well done good and faithful servant

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the…

To be a pilgrim

Gospel      Luke 14.25–33 25 Now large crowds were travelling with him; and he turned and said to them,26‘Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. 27Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28For which…