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Sunday 21 June 2009 - Ordinary 12

Woman touched Jesus

Anybody watching football, or English soccer, would be convinced that there really can be miracles. Here are grown men, big rough tough footballers rolling around on the floor in agony after a foul, then on comes a physio guy with a sponge and after a few seconds they are completely well again. Even if they are really bad and have to go off on a stretcher, as soon as they get to the touchline the stretcher is discarded and up goes their hand to be allowed back on again. It is a miracle, they are cured! Sadly history is full of such circumstances, tales of healings and miraculous cures which owe more to theatrical behaviour and manipulation than real healing.

The passage from Mark's gospel today tell of two healings which involved Jesus. One in which he raised a little girl, another in which a woman is healed merely by touching Jesus with faith. Could they be true?

Prayers for this week

Listen to this week's sermon by Mr Richard Ledger

The Lectionary - Thinking Ahead (Click here for the whole of year B)

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Blogs - The Reverend Ross Royden, Vicar of Christ Church, Hong Kong has been discussing God in his blogspot.

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to read some of Ross's interesting theological insights

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Woodland Burial at Keysoe Bedfordshire

The St Albans Woodland Burial Trust now offers woodland burial at our woodland site in Keysoe Bedfordshire. The location in beautiful countryside has been consecrated to provide the greatest protection available in English law. The woodland is open to people irrespective of faith or religious beliefs.

Burial in consecrated ground is seldom offered these days, instead people purchase only lease on grave space for a period of perhaps 70 years. Consecration gives the greatest protection in English law that once laid to rest you can do so in peace!

Partnership News

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thisischurch.com acknowledges the following websites which you may also find helpful in considering the lectionary this week

www.bbc.co.uk/religion, www.textweek.com, www.lectionary.org, www.gbod.org/worship, www.methodist.org.uk,

www.churchtimes.co.uk, http://www.cofe.anglican.org/ www.judeop.org/latest.htm