12 October 2014 Trinity 17 Revd Simon Cowling Readings: Philippians 4 .1 – 9; Matthew 22. 1 – 14 Twenty years ago the Spice Girls passed fleetingly across my cultural horizon during a period when our two daughters, like most little girls at the time, became ardent fans of girl power. It was doubtless […]
28 September 2014 Priory Eucharist Revd Simon Cowling 2 Corinthians 9. 6-end; Luke 12. 16-30 Reflecting on this morning’s Gospel reading, and in particular on Jesus’s thought-provoking teaching about material wealth, I am reminded of the small boy who approaches the Rector at the end of a service and says brightly: ‘I’m going to give […]
21 September 2014 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist St Matthew, Apostle Revd Simon Cowling 2 Corinthians 4. 1-6; Matthew 9. 9-13 ‘The Tax’, or if you know your Yiddish ‘Di Takse’. As a title for a play it doesn’t really set the blood racing. But for the Jewish communities, the shtetls, of late nineteenth century Russia […]
14 September 2014 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist Holy Cross Day Revd Gillian Cooper Numbers 21.4-9; John 3.13-17 Of course the Israelites complained. Wouldn’t you have done? All those years, always on the move. No home, no security, living always with the possibility of there being no drinkable water, no edible food. New generations being born, […]
07 September 2014 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Rt Revd James Bell Isaiah 61. 10-end; Luke 1. 46-55 Hymns: they can excite some pretty strong feelings! You can either love them or loathe them. At the extremes, you might fine one deeply meaningful and uplifting and another might seem […]
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 […]
24 August 2014 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist The Feast of St Bartholomew Revd Lesley Ashton Acts 5. 12-16; Luke 22. 24-30 ‘But I am among you as one who serves’ These are the words of Jesus to his disciples as they argue amongst themselves about who amongst them is to be regarded as the greatest. […]
17 August 201410.30 Priory Sung EucharistThe Ninth Sunday after TrinityRevd Christopher ArmstrongIsaiah 56. 1 and 6-8; Matthew 15. 21-28 Some of us may not be aware that today is the first public occasion when the statue of Mary and Jesus has appeared in this church. She, our patron, has appeared very quietly in our midst. I speak […]
10 August 2014 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist The Eighth Sunday after Trinity Revd Simon Cowling 1 Kings 19.9-18; Matthew 14. 22-33 Last week we heard Matthew’s account of Jesus feeding the five thousand. Our preacher, Canon Wendy Wilby, helped us to uncover some of its richness, drawing our particular attention to Jesus’s selflessness in the […]
03 August 2014 10.30 Priory Sung Eucharist The Seventh Sunday after Trinity Canon Wendy Wilby Isaiah 55. 1-5; Matthew 14. 13-21 May you and I always speak and act in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now the definition of a good sermon is that it should have a good beginning…. […]