I’ve been away from St Mary’s for the last week or so travelling, so no time to write much. However, I did take a lot of photographs and thought I would post one or two things here which made me think. As usual, comments welcome. 
8 responses to “Passion Sunday Sermon”
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Thank you for this excellent sermon.
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Thanks for this sermon Kelvin. I now know more about spikenard than I did (which was nothing much!). And I also like the Gandhi reference.
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Very thoughtful.. Love the Quote on the smell of justice.. Love etc. thank you!
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According to my sources spikenard is a sharp smell, somewhere between mint and ginseng. Now you see, I had it more myrrh like, more heady. But I can see that mint and ginseng would be better at covering up rotting body smells.
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Our associate priest (Bryan Owen) managed to get a spikenard candle for his sermon on Sunday
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AND WHAT DID IT SMELL OF, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE?
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As it’s the same family as Valerian, it may smell strongly of smelly feet – and (like Valerian) send cats into a state of frenzy…..
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