Trinity 521 July 201910.30 EucharistRevd Nicholas Mercer I sometimes say, in jest, that, of the ten best things that have happened to me in life, nine involve fishing Even at the advanced age of 56, I still get an enormous thrill from catching a fish It is not surprising therefore I find stories of Christ and fishermen […]
24 June 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Birth of John the Baptist Canon Simon Cowling Isaiah 40. 1-11; Luke 1. 57-66 & 80 Compare and contrast. Three words with which school and university students taking exams this summer, especially in arts, humanities, and social sciences, will have become very familiar. Compare and contrast the characters […]
Third Sunday of Easter 15 April 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Acts 3. 12-19; Luke 24. 36b – 48 A few years ago the journalist and author Christopher Booker wrote a book called The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. The book did what it said on the tin: it described seven different […]
The Presentation of Christ (Candlemas) 28 January 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Malachi 3. 1-5; Luke 2. 22-40 The rabbis tell the story of a teacher, Honi, who lived some six hundred years before Christ. Honi was walking one day in the hills near Jerusalem when heavy rains forced him to take […]
31 December 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist The First Sunday of Christmas Canon Simon Cowling Isaiah 61.10 – 62.3; Luke 2. 15-21 I used to smoke quite heavily. Illicitly purchased cigarettes, bought singly as a fifteen year old from a newsagent who chose to turn the proverbial blind eye, led to an addiction which lasted some […]
25 December 2017 Christmas Day Revd Jonathan Cain Hebrews 1: 1-4, Luke 2: 1-14 On Saturday Rebecca, the boys and I were driving home to Ben Rhydding from my mum’s house in Orpington in Kent. We set off early to avoid the inevitable Christmas queues for Bluewater and Lakeside, the two shopping centres either side […]
24 December 2017 10.30 Parish Eucharist The Fourth Sunday in Advent Canon Simon Cowling Romans 16.25-end; Luke 1.26-38 Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?’ God said, ‘I will be with you.’ The call of Moses is described at the start of […]
06 August 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Transfiguration of our Lord Canon John Carter 2 Peter 1. 16-19; Luke 9. 28-36 It’s lovely to be the visiting preacher here this morning, and welcome to any other visitors. If you’re here on holiday a special welcome. I wonder how the holidays are going for you? […]
30 April 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Third Sunday of Easter Canon Simon Cowling Acts 2. 14a & 36-41; Luke 24. 13-35 Echo and Narcissus; Pyramus and Thisbe; Daedalus and Icarus. Though not as well embedded in our culture as they once were, most of these characters from Greek and Roman mythology still have what opinion […]
29 January 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Presentation of Christ in the Temple Revd Jonathan Cain Heb. 2: 14-end; Lk. 2: 22-40 “When the time came …” the first words from the gospel reading this morning tell us that what follows accords to established tradition. Luke describes this simply as “their purification” but in this […]