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…
20 August 2017 Trinity 10 Revd Jonathan Cain Romans 11: 1-2a & 29-32, Matthew 15: 10-28 News stories often emphasis difference and division between people or peoples. I don’t know about you but it seems to me that the news over the last couple of weeks has done this more than usual. There is the division of…
13 August 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Ninth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Romans 10. 5-15; Matthew 14. 22-33 This sermon uses some musical illustrations from Henry Purcell’s setting of verses from Psalm 107: ‘They that go down to the sea in ships’ * They that go down to the sea in ships; these men…
The Rector Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine September 2016 Olympic Spirit The ancient Olympic Games were in origin as much a religious festival, in honour of Zeus, as a sporting event. Even so, the participating Greek city states seem to have been as keen to get one over on their rivals as today’s nation states are…
09 November 2014 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Third Sunday before Advent (Remembrance) Revd Simon Cowling Isaiah 9. 1-6; Matthew 5. 43-end A few months after he became Prime Minister, David Cameron led a trade delegation to China. During that visit, which took place during the month of November, Mr Cameron politely declined a Chinese request…
31 August 2014 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity Revd Simon Cowling Jeremiah 15. 15-21; Matthew 16. 21-end ‘Shalu shlom Yerushalayim’. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. These words from Psalm 122 in the Hebrew scriptures have an especially haunting resonance for those of us – and that, sadly, is most of…