Remembrance Sunday08 November 202010.30 Morning ServiceRevd Nicholas Mercer A few years ago I was invited to take part in a Radio 4 programme entitled “A Question of Conscience” It was recorded in Richmond Castle by a former Army Chaplain called Andrew Martlew He recalled the story of the Richmond 16 who had been imprisoned in WW1 for refusing…
The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity18 October 202010.30 Morning ServiceRevd Nicholas Mercer Today is the Feast Day of St Luke the Evangelist It punctuates the end of Ordinary Times and is a distinctive break in the calendar on what is otherwise the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity St Luke, as most of us know, is one of the authors of…
Trinity 15 9 September 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Rt Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop of Ripon Mark 7.24-end James 2,1-10, 14-17 ‘My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly,…
Trinity 16 16 September 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain James 3: 1-12, Mark 8: 27-end I’m not a big reality-TV fan, but I am a very occasional watcher of who do you think you are? on the BBC. This is the series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from…
Trinity 14 02 September 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain James 1: 17-end, Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15 & 21-23 “Germs and Jesus,” shouted the seven year old to her parents. “Germs and Jesus! You keep telling me they’re important, and yet I can’t see any of them.” What this little exchange illustrates is that…
15th July 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Seventh Sunday after Trinity Judith Clark Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6: 14-29 Judith Clark is training for ordination at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and has been on placement at the Priory for four weeks. Alongside her ministerial formation, Judith is reading for a PhD through Oriel College, Oxford. Her thesis…
08 July 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Sixth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling 2 Corinthians 12. 2-10; Mark 6. 1-13 The Golden Summer of 2012. The United Kingdom welcomed the world to the London Olympics and the home athletes rose to the occasion: the twenty-nine gold medals which the athletes won ensured that the…
Trinity 5 01 July 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Corinthians 8: 7-end; Mark 5: 21-end In 1993 Gisele was 28 years old, married and expecting a baby. Following a miscarriage with her first pregnancy, this baby was perhaps even more precious. She was elated with the anticipation of motherhood and the thought…
Trinity 3 17 June 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Corinthians 5: 6-17; Mark 4: 26-34 We welcome young children into this service occasionally, one such occasion being when we have a baptism like today. So welcome to Alfie and to his parents, Caroline and Guy, Alfie’s brother Henry, and their family. Alfie…
Trinity 2 10 June 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Corinthians 4: 13 – 5: 1; Mark 3: 20-35 “When Jesus’ family heard that he was home, that a crowd had come together again that was preventing him from eating, and that some hostile scribes had come down from Jerusalem to confront him,…