Out and about!

This week has been a week of cover and funerals elsewhere. Presiding at the Eucharist in Taffs Well on Monday and Tuesday and Tongwynlais on Wednesday. Despite the current climate of despair about the Church and marginalisation by some sections of the media it is good to go to other Christian communities and to find them in good heart.

Reflecting on the Gospel readingsfrom the Revised Common Lectionary Luke 14: 1, 7-14 for last Sunday the twin themes of humility and hospitality ring out as a message for the Church at this time. First we need the humility to sometimes take the criticism that the world offer us when our deeds and our words do not match up. But also we need to have a profound awareness for the need for hospitality, a welcoming inclusion for those who we would regard as usually being from outside our number. For when we are welcoming even of our sternest critics it shows that we are embracing the challenges that the world sets before us.