Chaplains
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Chaplains5th May 2020
Keep Going, Keep Perspective, Keep Hope
I have just returned from my second funeral this week. Very sad… seats set 2 metres apart, and the maximum number of mourners allowed is ten. Video livestreaming links others. An opening verse with words that everyone knows - “Even...
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Chaplains28th April 2020
Top Tips for Working in Isolation
Well, this has started as a strange week and today it’s raining. Talking to folk, people are feeling really “in limbo”. With no sign of the end of lockdown, motivation is difficult, lone working even lonelier, new forms of assessments...
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Chaplains24th April 2020
New and Authentic Living
Today’s new testament reading from 3 Colossians is an inspired word for today. You see, I think we are in a crucial week. Mind you, you might say, all weeks are. Yes- maybe - certainly extraordinary times - new uncharted...
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Chaplains21st April 2020
The Lord Will Save…
A thought from today’s readings: Christ is the image of the invisible God, the first-born over all creation. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether...
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Chaplains16th April 2020
Thank God for Peter and his life example...
Tomorrow’s set gospel (John 21) tells a special story. Jesus is alive, appearing to many, and still putting things in place to enable the building of his church, before he goes back to heaven. He has already convinced Thomas he...
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Chaplains13th April 2020
Easter Monday - The 'I Am' Sayings
So here we are! It’s Easter Monday - a new day. Good Friday and Easter day have come and gone… and life carries on. As we wait for the campus to resume its activity of study, learning and living -...
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Chaplains12th April 2020
Easter Day - He is Risen!
It is Easter day, and the new dawn has broken. For 2000 years, every Easter we celebrate this world changing event… Jesus, the hope that we have, comes alive – overcoming death. He is to be seen by many people,...
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Chaplains10th April 2020
Good Friday
We remember on this day: In history, the death of a man, Jesus, Son of Mary and (it was thought) Joseph. In the Christian faith, the Son of God, the Word, present in the beginning, through whom all things were...
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Chaplains9th April 2020
Do This in Remembrance of Me
Today we recall Maundy Thursday, and one of the greatest gifts given to us by Jesus. Jesus is recognised often by taking bread, giving thanks, breaking and sharing. He told us to do the same – to remember him. “Take...
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Chaplains7th April 2020
Waiting for Life
Looking at today’s stories, key words pop up time and again… Waiting Stress Loneliness Uncertainty Protecting communities Help – amazing stories of good – especially the NHS ...And buying Easter Eggs That set me thinking… The University of Bath is...