A story for Christmas Day. The Crib of Bo Bossu

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Merry Christmas from all at Seal - and a story for...: A story for Christmas day, told at this morning's Christmas Communion. My own re-telling of a traditional Breton tale.

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 24: The Word became flesh and dwelt among us (I hope everyone has come through the storm last night safely - perhaps it makes the latter part ...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 23: The Word became flesh and dwelt among us We often skate over the end of Matthew's version of the nativity story. It doesn't fit wi...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 22: The Word became flesh and dwelt among us Matthew's account of the birth of Christ has no manger in Bethlehem, and no shepherds, but it...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 20: The Word became flesh and dwelt among us Luke 2.1-7 In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be r...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 19: The Word became flesh and dwelt among us The central and most wonderful claim of Christian faith is that, somehow, in Jesus, God became pr...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 18: Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven Many people do not have anywhere to call home in this world. They have had to leave their own...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 16: Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven 2 Corinthians 5. 17-19 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old ha...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 15: Psalm 137 By the rivers of Babylon—    there we sat down and there we wept    when we remembered Zion.  On the willows  there    we hun...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 14: The prophet Isaiah wrote for the people of Israel when they were in exile in Babylon. Through him God promises that he will restore them to ...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 13: Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven Matthew 22. 1-14 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: ‘The kingdom of heave...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 12: Leaving home and coming home. Sophie's Story. Sophie is the youngest of three children. Growing up, Sophie's childhood was tr...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 11: Leaving home and coming home John 19. 25-27 Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary ...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 10: Leaving home and coming home Parents of grown-up-and-gone children often find that they aren't quite as "gone" as they tho...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 9: Leaving home and coming home Then Jesus   said, ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, “Father, give...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 8: Leaving home and coming home. Louise Gluck's poem imagines the Greek soldiers after their triumph in the seige of Troy preparing to go...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 7: Leaving home and coming home. C. Day-Lewis, in this poem reflects on the experience of letting his son, Sean, grow up and leave home. ...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 6: Apologies for the late arrival of this - a power cut left us without electricity all morning! Home, sweet home? Reflecting on our experie...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 5: Home, sweet home? Reflecting on our experiences of home Charles Causley's poem, "Timothy Winters" is based on a real child ...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 4: Home, sweet home? Reflecting on our experiences of home Luke 10.38 - 42 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village, ...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 3: Home, sweet home? Reflecting on our experiences of home Read or listen to Robert Hull's Poem "Table" (I can't reproduce...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 2: "Home , sweet home " For some people, their ideal home is one which is shared with other people, but others may be quite happy o...

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St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Home for Christmas? 1: Home, sweet home? Reflecting on our experiences of home In the next few weeks, we will be looking at the idea of home from a lot of dif...