Added Tuesday 24th July 2012
In the coming weeks (Proper 12 to Proper 16), preachers everywhere face the challenge of preaching on the whole of Chapter 6 of the Gospel of St John, which is essentially an essay about bread.
If you are struggling to find a starting point for this most difficult of times in the lectionary, Kevin Carey has published, in advance, the sermons he is to preach over the coming weeks. Why not take a look, and perhaps take away a few ideas to get you started?
- Proper 12 (vv 1-21): Bread of The People
- Proper 13 (vv 24-35): Bread from Heaven
- Proper 14 (vv 35, 41-51): Real Presence
- Proper 15 (vv 51-58): Bread of Eternal Life
- Proper 16 (vv 56-69): Incarnation
- Proper 12 to Proper 16: Reprise
We, as the chosen people of god, as contemporary disciples, fired in Baptism and sustained in the Eucharist, are Christ's vessels wrought on the world's wheel, to carry and to be broken, to be loaded and to be vulnerable, to shine in artistry and to be dashed in disgust. We are not the triumphant elect who will be rewarded for our piety with eternal life while the benighted sceptic and the unfortunate heathen are consigned to outer darkness, but we are, rather, the world's ambassadors, the singer of the song, on behalf of all God's people, of the sacrament of God for the whole world.
Return to All News