14th March: Mothering Sunday

Preparation: God of compassion, you await the sinner’s return and spread a feast to welcome the lost.  Save us from the temptations that lead away from you, and draw us back by the constancy of your love, that we may take our place in your household and gladly share our inheritance with others.  Grant this through Christ, our liberator from sin, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, holy and mighty God for ever and ever.

First Reading: Joshua 5, 9-12. The people arrive in the Promised Land; the manna ceases as they begin to enjoy the land God has given them.  

Psalm 32. Response: Forgive me, O Lord, the guilt of my sin.

Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 5, 16-21. The thing that Paul is trying to convey to his readers above all: the Christian faith is not merely another sort of religious community like the many other new religions of his time. In Christ all things are made new: the creation is beginning to be restored, and we are invited into making that new world come about.

Gospel Response: Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory

HOLY GOSPEL: Luke 15, 1-3;11b-32. Not the parable of the prodigal son, so much as the generous father. He cuts his son off half way through his repentance speech and welcomes him back to the family. No wonder the other son is upset; God forgives what people cannot.

21st March: Passiontide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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