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 11 12 August 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain Ephesians 4:25 – 5:2, John 6:35 & 41-51 From today’s epistle: “So then, putting away all falsehood let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another.” Many of you will know that Rebecca, the boys and…
29 October 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Twentieth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Leviticus 19. 1-2 & 15-18; Matthew 22. 34 – end This sermon began with the organ playing Martin Luther’s hymn tune for his translation of Psalm 46: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A mighty fortress is our God).A version may be accessed…
02 July 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Third Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Romans 6. 12-end; Matthew 10.40 – end I am made all things to all men – Hebrew, Roman, and Greek – In each one’s tongue I speak, Suiting to each my word, That some may be drawn to the Lord! Rudyard Kipling…
06 November 2016, Third Sunday before Advent 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Thess. 2: 1-5 & 13-end; Lk. 20: 27-38 This week Rebecca and I have been very fortunate to spend a few days in Rome. The trip included a full day around the Vatican Museums – a truly inspiring and quite overwhelming experience. Whilst it’s…
11 September 2016 10.30 Sung Eucharist Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Felicity Cowling Jeremiah 4. 11-12; 22-28; Luke 15. 1-10 Most of us will be able to recall that sense of dread or panic that sets in when we’ve lost or misplaced something that’s important to us. Maybe momentarily losing a child in a crowd, or…
01 May 2016, Sixth Sunday of Easter 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Acts 16. 9-15 John 5. 1-9 Last Boxing Day I was roused early from my post-Christmas Day reverie by an urgent voice from downstairs. It was Anne telling me that the cellar was flooding. One look outside told me why this might…
12 October 2014 Trinity 17 Revd Simon Cowling Readings: Philippians 4 .1 – 9; Matthew 22. 1 – 14 Twenty years ago the Spice Girls passed fleetingly across my cultural horizon during a period when our two daughters, like most little girls at the time, became ardent fans of girl power. It was doubtless…