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Advent 4: Mary’s Song of Redemptive Revolution

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In this podcast on the fourth Sunday of Advent, 2015, Ian Mobsby explores the context and meaning of Mary’s Song of Redemptive Revolution as recorded in the Gospel of Luke 1.39-45[46-55].  This text commonaly called the Magnificat, is said at Evening Prayer in most Anglican Churches and religious communities.  As such Mary’s vision is deeply political in that it seeks the common good for economic, social and ecological justice.  This not a violent revolution, but a calling for all those who have and have not to come to the table as equal particpants in the Kingdom of God.

 

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Advent 2: A Baptism of Hope and Change

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In this St Luke’s Church podcast, Ian Mobsby explores the theme of baptism in the Christian faith, and the role of John the Baptist in the lectionary reading for the Second Sunday of Advent.   John the Baptist as the last prophet of Israel and what is called the Herald of the Messiah, taught a baptism of repentance and of purification.   Since then the Christian Church has baptised people as the beginning of the path of following Christ.

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Advent 1: The Great Waiting

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In this podcast at the beginning of Advent 2015, Ian Mobsby drawing on Matthew Chapter 4, explores the theme of the ‘great waiting’. We remember Mary who chose to have faith in God even though it made her an outsider and at some personal risk.  This was recorded on Sunday 29th November at St Luke’s Church Peckham.

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