Trinity 2 10 June 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Corinthians 4: 13 – 5: 1; Mark 3: 20-35 “When Jesus’ family heard that he was home, that a crowd had come together again that was preventing him from eating, and that some hostile scribes had come down from Jerusalem to confront him, […]
Trinity 1 03 June 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Corinthians 4: 5-12; Mark 2: 23- 3: 6 “For some, the result was catastrophic. In one case, a woman had lived and worked in the UK for 50 years before she was wrongfully declared an illegal immigrant and almost forced on a plane to […]
Whitsunday 20 May 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain Acts 2: 1-21; John 15: 26-27 & 16: 4-15 It has become a bit of a joke in our house that on the relatively few occasions that Rebecca has been asked to read in churches, the list of what the Apostle St Paul calls earthly […]
Seventh Sunday of Easter 13 May 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Tony Cantlow Acts 1. 15-17 & 21-end; John 17. 6-19 Tony Cantlow served as verger at the Priory Church until January of this year. He is nearing the end of his training for ordination at the College of St Hild in Mirfield and will be […]
Sixth Sunday of Easter 06 May 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Canon Simon Cowling Acts 10. 44 – end; John 15. 9-17 There’s a story I rather like about a fairly tough and very down to earth inner city parish in Birmingham. The vicar had just retired. He had been much loved as a parish priest, […]
Fifth Sunday of Easter 29 April 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain Acts 8: 26-end; John 15: 1-8 I am pretty hopeless at gardening. The very first thing that Rebecca does if she’s been away for a few days (often before she has properly said hello to me and the boys) is check the […]
The Rector Bolton Abbey Parish Magazine May 2018 Practising what we Preach Thomas Jefferson was one of the United States’ founding fathers. He was steeped in the Enlightenment values of political and religious freedom, as is clear in the 1776 American Declaration of Independence in which Jefferson wrote that all men are created equal (and) […]
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 […]