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11 May 2025

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PRIME MINISTERS, PRESIDENTS AND POPES - POMP AND PAGEANTRY.
Much sooner than we all expected we have a new Pope in the person of Pope Leo XIV, an American and Peruvian citizen Cardinal Robert Prevost. It’s been an interesting few weeks. New Prime Ministers, Chancellors, and now a Pope. In all these examples, there is quite a bit of drama, fanfare, splendour and ceremonial glitz as new people are installed in their new roles and calling.

One of the lectionary readings this week is Revelation 7:9-17. Here we read in verse 9b onwards about a “great multitude that no one could count, from eve- ry nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.’”

John continues in verse 11:“All the angels were standing round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, 12 saying: ‘Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!’” Thousands upon thousands of angels fall down before God in one of the greatest proclamations of praise and honour.

Reading on we find that these very many saints in white robes have “washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence” (14b - 15).

And then these most beautiful promises:
16 “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them, nor any scorching heat. 17 For the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

No human power or empire, nation or ecclesiastical institution can match the glory that will be revealed. Verse 17 gives us the most amazing picture of the Lamb at the centre of the throne being our shepherd. And this shepherd will lead us to springs of living water. Mixed metaphors as usual. Jesus is not just the Good Shepherd, but the best! He is the Lamb giving his life for the sheep, and the King who nurtures us like the shepherd God in Psalm 23:2. He also speaks for us before the Father (1 John 2:1).

Blessings and peace,
Robin

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‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth’ (1:14)

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