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 […]
21 January 2018 Third Sunday after Epiphany Revd Jonathan Cain Rev. 19: 6-10; John 2: 1-11 “When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine’.” This is the way John the Evangelist introduces Mary, the mother of Jesus, to his reader; as a guest at a wedding where she […]
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 […]
21 May 2017 Sixth Sunday of Easter Revd Jonathan Cain Acts 17: 22-31, John 14: 15-21 I’m a great fan of the Harvard professor and public philosopher, Michael Sandel. In his books and lectures he has a way of explaining quite complicated philosophical and ethical approaches in an accessible way, doing so in a neutral way, that […]
08 May 2016, Seventh Sunday of Easter 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Acts 16. 16 – 16-34; John 17. 20-end A few days after my father’s death, some sixteen years ago, a parishioner came to the door of my vicarage in Leeds. She held out a Tupperware container of home-made biscuits, said to me […]
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 […]