Revd Barry Overend Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine October 2018 Ears to Hear An American goes into a drug store to buy a hearing aid. He’s told that they cost anything from two dollars to two hundred dollars. ‘What’s the two dollar one like?’, he asks. The storeman opens a tin and pulls out a button […]
Trinity 15 9 September 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Rt Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop of Ripon Mark 7.24-end James 2,1-10, 14-17 ‘My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, […]
Trinity 16 16 September 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain James 3: 1-12, Mark 8: 27-end I’m not a big reality-TV fan, but I am a very occasional watcher of who do you think you are? on the BBC. This is the series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from […]
Trinity 14 02 September 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain James 1: 17-end, Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15 & 21-23 “Germs and Jesus,” shouted the seven year old to her parents. “Germs and Jesus! You keep telling me they’re important, and yet I can’t see any of them.” What this little exchange illustrates is that […]
Revd Jonathan Cain Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine September 2018 Change and Unchanging ‘We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul’. Hebrews 6.19 If we engage with the Biblical narrative we come to appreciate that change is woven into the very fabric of creation. The second day is not like the first […]
19 August 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Ephesians 5. 15-20; John 6. 51-58 We believe in life before death. Some years ago, Christian Aid introduced this statement into its annual campaign. It succeeds in being unobjectionable, challenging and subversive in equal measure. The statement is unobjectionable because it’s […]
Trinity 11 12 August 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain Ephesians 4:25 – 5:2, John 6:35 & 41-51 From today’s epistle: “So then, putting away all falsehood let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another.” Many of you will know that Rebecca, the boys and […]
05 August 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Tenth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Ephesians 4. 1-16; John 6. 24-35 First make flour from wild wheat and wild barley; then pound the tubers of wild plants that grow in water (like sedges or bull-rushes) to a dry pulp; mix together with water to make a […]
The Rector Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine August 2018 Being and Becoming Writing In the September 2013 issue of the Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine, just before my arrival as Rector, the Revd James Turnbull, one of our beloved honorary priests, commented: we can depend on Simon. I am sure he will feel able to depend on […]
29 July 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Ninth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Ephesians 3. 14-end; John 6. 1-21 The Gospel is bad news before it is good news. Rather a surprising comment for a Presbyterian Minister to make, you might think. But that is the view of Frederick Buechner, a widely admired American […]