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 […]