Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

In my sermon last Sunday, I said that, to me, something that encapsulates  what Lent is really all about are the words we use at the Imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday;  ‘Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.  Repent, and believe in the Gospel.’  But those of us here who can remember theContinue reading “Sermon for Lent 2, 1st March 2026”

Lent is the great penitential season of the Church’s year. So we’re now in that time of year when we’re called more than at any other time, to think about our own sinfulness. To think about our own lives and how far short of the teaching and example of Christ we fall. To think about how we might do better inContinue reading “Sermon for Lent 1, 22 February 2026”