Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

In just a few days’ time now, we’ll celebrate Ash Wednesday and begin the season of Lent. I don’t know how many of you have decided to take on a Lenten discipline this year, but for those who haven’t or who haven’t yet made up their minds what their Lenten discipline will be, there areContinue reading “Sermon for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Next before Lent) 11th February 2024”

A generation or two ago, it was very common if not actually the norm for Sunday services at an Anglican parish church to include Morning and Evening Prayer or, as they would probably have been called then, Mattins and Evensong. And at that time, if you’d have asked a member of an Anglican congregation toContinue reading “Sermon for the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas) 4th February 2024”

In our Gospel reading this morning we hear about Jesus teaching and healing in the early days of his earthly ministry. At the end of the reading we’re told that his reputation and fame spread rapidly throughout Galilee, and we’re left in no doubt that this was due in part to the fact that, unlikeContinue reading “Sermon for the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Epiphany 4) 28th January 2024”