Thought for the Day - The Beginning and the End

The Course of Empire: Destruction, Thomas Cole, 1836

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 29th April 2025 based on the text of Mark 13.5-13

Our gospel reading today forms the start of what some call the “Little Apocalypse”. As well as recording the longest speech by Jesus in the whole of Mark’s gospel, it’s a passage that may reveal something about the people who first heard the text, whose writer the church remembers today.

Start:Stop-One Small Step

Good morning and welcome to Start Stop. This morning we will be reflecting on the first Lunar Communion, the link between St Stephen Walbrook and the space-faring adventurer Dan Dare and how for many Christians today the freedom to celebrate communion seems like a world away. We begin with a short bible reading which can be found on page 117 of the New Testament.