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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on Prayer

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“The prayer of the baptised is a growing and moving into the prayer of Jesus himself and therefore it is a prayer that may be difficult and mysterious. It will not always be cheerful and clear, it may not always feel as though it’s going to be answered. Christians do not pray to get what they ask for in any simple sense – you may have noticed that this can’t be taken for granted! Rather, Christians pray because they have to, because the Spirit is surging up inside them.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.8f


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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on Baptism

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“To be baptized is to recover the humanity that God first intended. What did God intend? He intended that human beings should grow into such love for him and such confidence in him that they could rightly be called God’s sons and daughters. Human beings have let go of that identity, abandoned it, forgotten it or corrupted it. And when Jesus arrives on the scene he restores humanity to where it should be.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.3f


 

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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Lord’s Prayer

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“At the central moment, just before we receive the bread and wine, we pray the prayer of Jesus: we say, “Our Father…” – and that is a great and significant moment, not just a bit of muttered devotion before we start on our way to the altar, but one of the supreme transitions in the drama of the entire service. For when we pray the prayer of Jesus, the Holy Spirit is in us and at work in us. We are affirming that in this act of worship the Holy Spirit is speaking Jesus’ words in us, praying ‘Abba, Father’, just as Jesus did and does.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.56


 

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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Eucharist 2

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“If Jesus gives thanks over bread and wine on the eve of his death, if Jesus makes that connection between the furthest place away from God, which is suffering and death, and the giving and outpouring of his Father, and if in his person he fuses those things together, then wherever we are some connection between us and God is possible. All places, all people, all things have about them an unexpected sacramental depth. They open on to God the Giver.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.49

 

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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Eucharist 1

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“Holy Communion is no kind of reward: it is, like everything about Jesus Christ, a free gift. We take Holy Communion not because we are doing well, but because we are doing badly. Not because we have arrived, but because we are traveling. Not because we are right, but because we are confused and wrong. Not because we are divine, but because we are human. Not because we are full, but because we are hungry.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian (2014), p.53

 

 

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Mark the Evangelist Update – July 10 2015

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Friends,

the latest MtE news update:

  1. This Sunday we will take a break from the series of reflections on the kingship in Israel to consider an opinion piece by Lorraine Parkinson which appeared in the most recent issue of Crosslight (July): “A response to ‘Why Unite’”. (This is a response to an earlier piece by Randall Prior). To my mind it is an unhelpful piece but it warrants conversation or a response. To facilitate this reflection, the following readings will be heard in worship on Sunday:Galatians 2.15-21, Psalm 30 and Matthew 5.13-20.It will help you to participate in the reflection if you are able to read the Crosslight piece before Sunday. The form of our engagement around this will be a more of a dialogue than the usual sermon. It might also help to engage in this if you were to consider the following questions about Lorraine’s article, which we’ll use as the basis for our discussion: what appeals to you about her argument, what troubles you about it, and how good is the good news she thinks she has in her alternative to the traditional Christian reading of Jesus?
  2.  In July and August there will be a study series focussing on Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus again for the first time. You can register your interest via our web site.
  3. The most recent Presbytery update (July 6) is here.
  4. The most recent Synod update (July 9) is here.

Craig

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