Dear Friends
You are loved. This is the fundamental reality of human existence—that each and every one of us is loved by God. And we are loved to such an extent that we are free to accept the love of God or reject it.
This is completely radical in our world because it places each and every human being at an equal level. Money, education, contacts, assets and titles place no one as better than another. What they do is place a responsibility to serve others; if I am blessed by God with a talent or an asset it is for me to serve another.
And you and I have been offered the greatest gift of all, to come to know the God who is love through his Church and the Mysteries. You and I have come into contact with God and we are called to share this blessing, to allow others to discover that they too are loved: loved by God and loved by us. And there are many in our society who do not know that they are loved, that they have value not because of what they do or what they own but because of who they are.
Listen to the voice of the Lord and how he calls you to serve others, to care for others, to be his witnesses for others.
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Sermon
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen.
How easily, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, do we flit between one idea and the next? We scarcely scratch the surface yet we move on to a new focus; and perhaps for most things in our lives this is understandable—we cannot study everything!—but this does not mean we should study nothing.
The crowd came to the Lord wanting to hear a message, a short teaching and food for thought, and Christ gave them from the shallow waters of faith. And having heard the Master talk they had had their fill, they could go off and wander to the next rabbi, wandering from one to the next. But Simon wanted more, he was ready to go out into the depths of the Gospel.
Are you ready to go into the depths of the Gospel? Am I? Or are we satisfied with hearing a few moral teachings and then getting on with our lives? Because if we are to go out into the deep it will require work of us.
Simon did not understand everything, had not got his head around the Gospel teachings, but he knew Christ and trusted in him. He was tired, he had been out during the night dropping his nets into the deep but he did not know where to cast them and had failed to catch anything. Yet now he had not only a guide but the Guide whom he was willing to follow. “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”
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Services this week
Friday 30th September
Discussion on the Apocalypse of John (Revelation), 8 pm
Online
Saturday 1st October
Vespers, 6.30 pm
At St Francis’ Hall, Eastleigh
Sunday 2nd October
Divine Liturgy, 9.30 am
At St Francis’ Hall, Eastleigh
Online session is via Google Meet: please get in contact for the details.
Please join us: all are welcome, come and see.
Attending Church
We will be meeting at St Francis’ Hall, Nightingale Avenue, Eastleigh, SO50 9JA. Come and See.
Can I help you?
I am here for you, you need only ask. Is there a way I can support your life of faith? Get in touch.
Can you help the mission?
Yes, absolutely. Offer yourselves to the Lord: pray! Make available to him all your talents and ask him how he would like you to use them — listen for his reply.
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With love in Christ
Fr Alexander
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