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 […]
12 November 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Remembrance Sunday Revd Ikuko Williams Wisdom 6. 12-16; Matthew 25. 1-13 Originally from Japan, Ikuko Williams was ordained ten years ago in the Church of England and now works as a Hospital Chaplain at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. She is based mainly at Leeds General Infirmary. It is important to […]
17 September 2017 Trinity 14 Revd Jonathan Cain Romans 14 1-12, Matthew 18: 21-35 The Hebrew words for Spirit and breath have the same root – ruach. I love this because it suggests that the Spirit, the divine action of God in the world is tied up with breathing, our breathing. Those of you who practice […]
09 October 2016, Twentieth Sunday after Trinity 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain Jer. 29: 1, 4-7; Lk. 17: 11-19 “Widely believed to be the world’s oldest disease, leprosy is also one of the most stigmatised … [the] stigma surrounding leprosy sees entire families robbed of their job opportunities, education, marriage prospects and their dreams shattered. Fear and […]
21 August 2016 10.30 Sung Eucharist Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Revd Simon Cowling Jeremiah 1. 4 – 10; Luke 13. 10 – 17 Often the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid it. So wrote Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I learned the […]
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 […]
24 April 2016, Fifth Sunday of Easter 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Acts 11. 1-18; John 13. 31-35 For those who have fallen away from the faith, may there be no hope unless they return to your Law. As for the Christians and other heretics, may they perish immediately. Speedily may they be erased […]
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 […]
28 February 2015: Lent 3 10.30 Sung Eucharist Ven. Beverley Mason Isaiah 55. 1-9; Luke 13. 1-9 I’d like to thank Fr Simon for inviting me to be with you today – and indeed for the hospitality you are all affording me in this splendid church! We are now into the third week of Lent. Next week […]
18 October 2015 10.30 Sung Eucharist Luke the Evangelist Revd Jonathan Cain Acts 16:6-12; Luke 10:1-9 During a visit to the NASA space centre in 1962, President Kennedy noticed a janitor carrying a broom. He interrupted his tour, walked over to the man and said, “Hi, I’m Jack Kennedy. What are you doing?” The janitor responded, […]