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  Gate Pa – Year B – 26 th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Season of Creation 4 26 h September 2021 Readings: Hebrew Scripture:      Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9: 20-22 Psalm:                          124 Epistle:                         James 5: 13-20 Gospel:                        Mark 9: 38-50 What I want to say: In this Season of Creation to explore the need to imagination our relationship with and place in creation – our common home; and courage to live that out. Esther offers an example of what reimagining your place looks like, the risks and the rewards – a story still celebrated by Jews today at Purim. Esther also offer...

In the resources for this week is a quote from Abundant Africa. “We face multiple crises of poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. We have a short window – a kairos moment – in which to turn from well worn, broken paths and choose a better story for ourselves and for the world. But what story will we tell?” How do we understand and talk about what is happening to our world? How does that shape our response? In this fourth week of the Season of Creation we are invited to pray and act for our common home. We are invited to pray and act for God’s Oikos- a home for all, proclaiming that ALL life belongs to God. It is time to work with God protecting and healing God’s gift of our common home. As we contemplate the central image for this year, Abraham and Sarah’s tent, we are invited to consider this world as God’s tent where all are offered welcome, shelter, refuge, and safety. Prayer and action are at the heart of our readings this week. In Esther we read the st...

As we explored last week, the theme for this year’s international Season of Creation is “Oikos- a home for all”. Last week we explored the word “Oikos” which is Greek for the family or household, the family's property, and the house. And we looked at several words which come from oikos. One of those words is ecology which comes from “oikos – logia”- the study of the household. Our theme this week is Ecology: Protecting our Common Home. In particular we are invited to pay attention to the integral web of relationships that sustain the wellbeing of the whole Earth. Each creature – not only animals, insects and plants, but also non sentient creatures and minerals form part of this web and contribute to the health of the Earth. The Creation story in Genesis 1 reminds us that as humans we were created on the same day as all the animals, we are not separate to this glorious, diverse earth community. As we saw last week another of those oikos words in Economy – the rules of the household...

The notes for this sermon can be found here  Gate Pa – Year B 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Season of Creation One Readings: Psalm                          Psalm 125      First Reading:              Prov 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23            Second Reading:        James 2:1-10, 11-13, 14-17    Gospel:                         Mark 7:24-37                What I want to say: I want to introduce this year’s theme for the season of creation, - A home for all? Renewing the Oikos of God – joining worldwide c...

You can listen to this sermon here   Gate Pa – Year B   22 nd   Sunday in Ordinary Time, Readings: Psalm                                       Psalm 45:1-2, 6-7 First Reading:                           Song of Solomon 2:8-13          Second Reading:                       James 1:17-27                         Gospel:              ...