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 […]
Trinity 3 17 June 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Corinthians 5: 6-17; Mark 4: 26-34 We welcome young children into this service occasionally, one such occasion being when we have a baptism like today. So welcome to Alfie and to his parents, Caroline and Guy, Alfie’s brother Henry, and their family. Alfie […]
Trinity 2 10 June 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Corinthians 4: 13 – 5: 1; Mark 3: 20-35 “When Jesus’ family heard that he was home, that a crowd had come together again that was preventing him from eating, and that some hostile scribes had come down from Jerusalem to confront him, […]
Sixth Sunday of Easter 06 May 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Acts 10. 44 – end; John 15. 9-17 There’s a story I rather like about a fairly tough and very down to earth inner city parish in Birmingham. The vicar had just retired. He had been much loved as a parish priest, […]
03 December 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist First Sunday of Advent Canon Simon Cowling 1 Corinthians 1. 1-9; Mark 13. 24-end Hugo did look a bit funny. Because of the cleft, his lip curled up and his little mouth was almost a triangle. But what we both found surprising was how unimportant it was. Neither of […]
22 October 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Isaiah 45. 1-7; Matthew 22. 15-22 The godless florin This was the name given to a coin struck by the Royal Mint in 1849. It was the United Kingdom government’s first attempt to simplify the nation’s coinage by decimalisation. The inscription […]
15 October 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Revd Martin Wray Isaiah 25. 1-9; Matthew 22. 1-14 Several years ago, when I was in local church ministry, there appeared on the church bookstall a book entitled, ‘101 things to do during a dull sermon.’ To my dismay it quickly became a best-seller – […]
08 October 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Harvest Festival (Trinity 17) Canon Simon Cowling Deuteronomy 8. 7-18; Matthew 21. 33 – end One day Rabbi Akiva met a man who asked him, ‘who created the world?’ ‘Why, God created the world, answered the rabbi’. ‘What proof do you have?’ asked the man. ‘Come back tomorrow and […]
30 July 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Seventh Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Romans 8. 26 – end; Matthew 13. 31-33 & 44-52 Thy kingdom, O Christ, is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. For eight hundred years this site in Damascus was a temple dedicated to the Aramaean god Hadad, […]
25 June 2017 Trinity 2 Revd Jonathan Cain Romans 6: 1b-11, Matthew 10: 24-39 Age divided UK in General Election more than any vote since the 1970s. This was the front page headline of the London Evening Standard a few days ago. The newspaper article highlighted research by Ipsos Mori which suggests that Labour’s vote share was […]