Sunday 26 January 2025

Today is Sunday the 26th of January, beginning the 3rd week of Ordinary Time.

The Choir of Royal Holloway sings, ‘One In Christ’ by George Arthur.

When we were still far off you met us in your Son and brought us home.
Dying and living you declared your love and opened the gate of glory.

Today’s reading is from Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians.

1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

We are all united with Christ in one body. Can you think of any particular person that you are particularly glad to be united with, in Christ? If so, pray for them.

Is there anyone you’re not so happy about, someone you don’t want to be united with? Pray for that person, too, and for yourself.

As you hear the reading again, take a moment to think of your own body and how each part serves the other parts.

Can you ask God now to help you to put your gifts at the service of others?

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.