Reflecting on St. Paul’s analogy of the Church being like a human body with each of us playing our own part in its formation, we see the Church as a jigsaw puzzle. Every unique member is an essential piece; no gift is more important than another.
Whilst religious traditions often use rules rot decide who belongs, the story of Jesus and the Canaanite woman reveals a faith that relentlessly seeks to expand its borders of inclusion, not exclusion
Best wishes and every blessing to Sophie Culshaw and John Simpson who are now Mr and Mrs Simpson after their wedding at St Peter's Church, Martons Both in June.
How Matthew uses a literary diptych, asking us to compare and contrast Jesus' feeding of the five thousand with Herod's banquet which ends with the beheading of John the Baptist