Matthew is one of the two Gospels which include the Lord’s Prayer, the other is Luke. In Matthew the Lord’s Prayer is found in the middle of the ‘Sermon on the Mount’. You can read it on this link. Matthew’s gospel makes sharp distinctions between the way in which the disciples of Jesus (Christians) and …
Matthew guides us further into Jesus’ ‘sermon on the mount’ by talking of salt and light. You can read the whole section by following this link Jesus words about salt are something of a warning – was Matthew deliberately making a reference to a people who had lost their proper understanding of what God was …
When we get to Matthew Chapter 5 we arrive at a part of the Gospel which is known as the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ (It goes from Chapter 5 to the end of Chapter 7. Chapter 8 begins with ‘When Jesus came down from the mountain…’) Verses 3 to 11 are sometimes known as the …
Matthew, like Mark and Luke, has Jesus go into the desert (the wilderness) following his baptism. All three of them say that Jesus was tempted but only Matthew and Luke go into any details. There are three temptations. Making stones to bread, jumping from the Temple to attract attention, acquiring all the kingdoms of the …
The second half of Matthew Chapter 4 finds Jesus in the region of Galilee, on the shores of the sea of Galilee, sometimes called Lake Tiberias or Gennesaret. What we see in verses 12 -25 is a build-up of Jesus’ ministry from a few fisherfolk to myriad people from far and wide. Matthew is at …
In the third chapter of Matthew Jesus is brought before us again as one who was prophesied about. This time by John the Baptist. And it is a double-barrelled prophecy because John himself had been spoken about by Isaiah. You can read the chapter by following this link. Matthew builds up a from a voice …
Epiphany This is the season in which we celebrate the visit of the 3 Kings, or wise men to the Holy Family in Bethlehem. It is the final part of the story of the Christmas Crib, the time at which all the figures are in place. The account of this visit is only found in …
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Holy Trinity Church is designed in the 13th-century style, and consists of a chancel, nave of three bays, north-east tower, the ground stage of which is used as a vestry, north aisle, an unusually wide south aisle, a south chapel, a shallow south transept, and a north-west porch; the tower is surmounted by an octagonal …