Author: aberlourparishchurch

When Nathanael asks fo Jesus: “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” we wonder for ourselves, are we ready to find God in unexpected places and people?

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At the start of a new calendar year our readings take us to ‘beginnings’ – the very beginning when God creates, and the first of all cretaion is light, and the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, baptised by John. How do we make new beginnings this year?

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While we come to the end of 2023, we remain also in the Christmas season. This week we go with the Magi to find the Christ child, and wonder on the mystery of the divine and human natures of the baby Christ Jesus, incarnate God-with-us and perfect human.

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For our normal Sunday service, we take the final step in our advent journey looking at the places of the Christmas story from back then and now today. As we hear of Mary and Jospeh’s made refugess in their escape to Egypt, we turn – in concern and mourning- to Gaza.

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The West Bank 2000 years ago and West Bank today – we continue our advent journey of ‘looking East’ and holding in tension the multifaceted stories of then and now as we find them in the West Bank, today’s name for the area where the lesser known nativity story of Elizabeth, Zechariah and their son John the Baptist have its roots.

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