Emmanuel, God-with-us

You are very welcome to the Tarsus Scripture School for Advent and Christmas 2022.  This short course focuses on the Gospel of Matthew as a preparation for the Gospel of the coming year.  By means of a series of six reflections you will be led though a short course on this Gospel by Kieran O’Mahony, Sean Goan and Jessie Rogers. Each module is broken into two sections and you can follow them as they are laid out or equally dip in to topics that interest you in your own order. join with us as we explore how it is that the theologian and storyteller Matthew helps these first hearers and now us to get to know Jesus.

This course covers

Kieran O’Mahony “Flourishing are the poor in spirit”: the Sermon on the Mount for today (Matthew 5-7)

Session 1: The happy statements of the Sermon on the Mount

Session 2: A focus on prayer, and in particular, the Lord’s prayer as it if given us

Sean Goan “Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice’.” (Matthew 9:13))

Session 1: The notion of fulfilment

Session 2: A reflection on the meaning of the actions of Jesus

Jessie Rogers “If you have ears hear!” Parables of the Kingdom in Matthew 13

Session 1: The parables in Matthew’s context

Session 2: The parables as an invitation to enter into the Kingdom of God