24 January 2016 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Third Sunday of Epiphany Canon Simon Cowling Readings: 1 Corinthians 12. 12-31a; Luke 4. 14-21 ‘It once happened that all the other parts of the body mutinied against the stomach, which they accused of being the only idle, non-productive part the whole body, The rest of the parts […]
10 January 2016 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Baptism of Christ Canon Simon Cowling Readings: Acts 8. 14-17; Luke 3. 15-17 & 21-22 I like the story of the small boy who came home from church one morning having seen baptisms for the first time. Such was his interest that he proceeded to baptise the three […]
Christmas Eve 2015 22.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Readings: Isaiah 52. 7-10; John 1. 1-14 I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling is not much in vogue these days, but those lines from one […]
20 December 2015 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist The Fourth Sunday of Advent Canon Simon Cowling Micah 5. 2-5a; Luke 1. 39-45 The Blessed Virgin Mary. She is such a significant figure in the Christian tradition that it’s easy to forget, especially at this time of year, that she does not figure particularly prominently in the […]
13 December 2015 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist The Third Sunday of Advent Canon Simon Cowling Zephaniah 3. 14-end; Luke 3. 7-18 In the emptiness of John’s desert you will find yourself waiting, like a bowl that waits for wine, like a flute that waits for breath, like a sentinel that waits for the dawn. John’s […]
01 November 2015 10.30 Sung Eucharist All Saints’ Day Canon Simon Cowling Readings: Isaiah 25. 6-9; John 11. 32-44 My opponent says, ‘You worship one who was born a mere human being…….; Jesus was a Magician; he accomplished all these things by secret arts; he stole the names of angels of might from the shrines […]