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SUMMARY:Sunday before Lent\, Service of the Word\, 15th February 11.30am
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DESCRIPTION:We have just two Sundays this year between the end of Epiphany
  and the start of Lent\, and these help us to set the scene for Lent. \n\n
 Today\, the Sunday immediately before Lent\, we hear the gospel story of t
 he Transfiguration\, a bizarre religious experience for Saints Peter\, Jam
 es & John\, who\, at the top of a mountain\, see Jesus standing alongside 
 Moses and Elijah. And yet when they come down\, excited and exhausted and 
 full of faith\, they set about healing a sick boy\, and they fail and the 
 whole thing falls apart.\n\nSometimes we look back on distant religious\, 
 or just very touching\, moments and we wonder if it was\, in fact\, real..
 .or was it just that I was very sensitive that day\, or I was particularly
  tired\, or maybe I simply over-egged the whole thing....or dreamt it. I a
 m sure that is how Peter\, James and John must have felt. The vision is go
 ne and life was back to its untidy and unspectacular normal. An amazing ex
 perience on one hand\, and on the other all the mess\, the ambiguity and p
 erhaps disappointments of every day. \n\nBut when you hold these two thing
 s in your hand…\, you are staring at the very heart of our faith\, the v
 ery core of what it means to be a Christian. Because in Jesus Christ the W
 ord was made flesh\, God spoke directly to human beings\, he walked among 
 us\, ….and the world was changed as a result. Religious experiences did 
 break through into human daily life\, and they were made real and meaningf
 ul and incarnate\, and people's lives were changed.
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