Fourth Sunday of Easter 22 April 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain Acts 4: 5-12; John 10: 11-18 In a break from usual practice I am going to begin this morning by setting you all a challenge. I’m going to read the first paragraph of a statement to you that was made by a […]
Third Sunday of Easter 15 April 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Acts 3. 12-19; Luke 24. 36b – 48 A few years ago the journalist and author Christopher Booker wrote a book called The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. The book did what it said on the tin: it described seven different […]
Second Sunday of Easter 08 April 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Acts 4. 32-35; John 20. 19 – end When the Chancellor of the Exchequer rises to give his Budget speech (and we have not yet had a woman Chancellor) he traditionally precedes the announcement of his detailed fiscal intentions with an […]
Easter Day 01 April 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Mark 16. 1-8 A few days ago, at the beginning of Holy Week, more than two hundred people from Argentina flew to the Falklands. They were not tourists. They were relatives of some of the six hundred and forty nine Argentinian soldiers killed in the […]
The Rector Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine April 2018 To Easter and Beyond Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise: That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more just. Imagine […]
29 March 2018 Maundy Thursday Revd Jonathan Cain 1 Cor. 11: 23-26; John 13: 1-17, 31b-35 This evening we actively remember the events of the evening before Jesus’ death on the cross. Simon will wash feet, as Jesus washed his disciples feet. We will share the Eucharist of the Last Supper. We will strip the […]
25 March 2018 Palm Sunday Revd Jonathan Cain Isa. 50: 4-9a.; Mark 15: 1-39 TV watching for Rebecca and I is something that generally happens late at night, beyond the time at which we would sensibly turn off the light and sleep. Consequently, we usually take it in turns to nod off, and spend time […]
The Fourth Sunday in Lent 11 March 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist; Mothering Sunday Canon Simon Cowling Exodus 2. 1-10; John 19. 25b-27 I ask you to visit the cathedral. If (the statue) shocks you as much as it did me, then write to the Bishop of the diocese and tell him so. This was the […]
The Third Sunday in Lent 04 March 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Exodus 20. 1-17; John 2. 13-22 Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, it is said; so as someone committed to the truth I ought to apologise for beginning my sermon with a good story which […]
The Rector Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine March 2018 What’s your perspective? Past put behind us, for the future take us: Lord of our lives, to live for Christ alone. Those familiar words from the hymn Lord for the years offer a conventional perspective on the passage of time: the future is what lies before us; […]