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Everything you wanted to know about Christianity at the Anglican Parish of the Otways Please join me each week for our reflections of sermons conducted during our church service. Plus, occasional splashes of humour and epiphanies! With much Love and Blessings Rev. Jenny Brandon |
 PALM Sunday see the beginning of Holy Week when we reflect on the passion of Jesus. After three years of going where he wanted to, he is now lead along the path of death by others. Palm Sunday derives its name from the palm branches that were waved by the crowds of people and strewn in the path of Jesus as he entered Jerusalem for the Passover riding on a donkey...
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 THE Gospel scene this morning depicts an angry Jesus with a whip in his hand. This image of Jesus doesn’t sit well with our romanticised image of gentle Jesus, meek and mild. It seems so out of character with what we know of Jesus from the rest of the Gospels. Jesus at the Temple 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,  IN life we all see things from a certain perspective,
coloured by our life experiences that may very well prevent us from seeing things clearly. We all form certain opinions of events and other people based on how we see them, and sometimes how we see them, and our opinions of them can be mistaken. |
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Rev. Jenny is an ordained Priest of the Anglican Diocese delivering services at Anglican Parish of the Otway churches every week. With great depth of knowledge and a spiritual practice that shows she walks her talk and has taken her to the far reaches of N.T. Australia working with indigenous youth and elders.
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