Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

Entrance Antiphon Look to your covenant, O Lord, and forget not the life of your poor ones for ever. Arise, O God, and defend your cause, and forget not the cries of those who seek you.  The Collect Almighty ever-living God, whom, taught by the Holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father, bring, we pray, to perfection in our hearts the spirit ofContinue reading “Propers for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, 9th August 2026”

The Feeding of the Five Thousand must be one of the best known of Jesus’ miracles. In fact it’s so well-known that it’s become a common metaphor for any instance of stretching meagre resources to feed or to help in some way a large number of people. But as well as being a well-known miracle of Jesus, it’s also been seen one of theContinue reading “Sermon for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2nd August 2026”

From my late teens into my early 20s, one of the highlights of my family’s  life were the annual boating holidays we used to take. Once or twice we cruised the Thames, but usually we spent those holidays on the Norfolk Broads. And one of the places we always visited while we were on theContinue reading “Sermon for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 26 July 2026”