25 March 2018 Palm Sunday Revd Jonathan Cain Isa. 50: 4-9a.; Mark 15: 1-39 TV watching for Rebecca and I is something that generally happens late at night, beyond the time at which we would sensibly turn off the light and sleep. Consequently, we usually take it in turns to nod off, and spend time…
Canon Andrew Tawn is the Director of Clergy Development for the Diocese of Leeds The Second Sunday in Lent 25 February 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Andrew Tawn Genesis 17. 1-7 & 15-16; Mark 8. 31-38 Have you ever wondered how the gospels came to be written down? I would like to take you on…
04 September 2016 10.30 Sung Eucharist Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Jeremiah 18. 1-11; Luke 14. 25 – 33 Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ. I first encountered those words during a…
25 March 2016 12.00 Good Friday Revd Jonathan Cain Phil. 2:5-11; Jn. 18:28 – 19:42 A few years ago we were returning from our family summer holiday on an overnight long-haul flight. Flying is not my favourite activity, especially long-haul with children, but the boys were entertained by individual TV screens which made the journey bearable. As the…
20 March 2016, Lent 6 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Philippians 2. 5-11; Passion according to Luke Almost exactly two years ago, on 21 March 2013, Justin Welby was enthroned as the one hundred and fifth Archbishop of Canterbury. This anniversary has prompted a number of media interviews and media appearances, including one with England’s…
13 March 2016, Lent 5 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Canon Professor John Rodwell Isaiah 43. 16-21; John 12. 1-8 I wouldn’t want to be thought a nosey-parker, but creative eaves-dropping, well that’s a different matter. Or so the writer Alan Bennett has taught us, catching other peoples’ conversation and, fashioning it into stories, thus telling…
31 January 2016 10.30 Sung Eucharist Candlemas Canon Simon Cowling Readings: Hebrews 2. 14-end; Luke 2. 22-40 I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the house of the Lord. Words from Psalm 122. For centuries, from the time of Solomon some one thousand years before Christ, the Jerusalem Temple, the…
13 September 2015 10.30 Sung Eucharist Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity Revd Simon Cowling Isaiah 50. 4-9a; Mark 8. 27-end I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; There is a story in the Old Testament Second Book of Samuel which gives some insight into…
Bolton Priory 29 March 2015: Palm Sunday 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Simon Cowling Isaiah 50. 4-9a; Mark 15.1- 39 It may be that you have not succumbed to the spell of Hilary Mantel, specifically the first two novels in her Tudor trilogy dealing with the turbulent career of Thomas Cromwell – the man who was responsible, among other things,…
01 February 2015: Candlemas 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Simon Cowling Hebrews 2. 14-end; Luke 2. 22-40 When we moved to Bolton Abbey eighteen months ago, and began to explore our new surroundings, I found the Skipton by-pass baffling. Specifically the A59, our normal route to Skipton, disappears from the map at its junction with the…