Second Sunday of Christmas03 January 2021Morning ServiceRevd Barry Overend Beat Sterchi is a Swiss writer best known for his 1983 award winning novel, The Cow. The story begins with Ambrosio who travels from his native Spain to Switzerland looking for a job as a cowman. As he enters a Swiss village we read: ‘Nothing moved. Only…
Revd Barry Overend Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine February 2019 Valentine – the Bare Bones Valentine was a fourth century Roman soldier destined for high rank. He gave up worshipping the Roman gods once he had converted to Christianity. It was not a good career move. As soon as the Emperor got wind of it, Valentine was…
18 June 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist First Sunday after Trinity Revd Barry Overend Romans 5. 1-8; Matthew 9.35 – 10.8 A sermon preached on the 25th anniversary of the Rector’s ordination to the priesthood by the Revd Barry Overend, the Rector’s training incumbent for his second curacy at St Chad’s, Far Headingley, Leeds. ‘Oh, it’s a…