Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

I don’t know if any of you have a favourite book of the Bible, one you read more than any other or just like more than any other, but if we were to do a survey of this question, it’d be no surprise whatsoever if the result came back that the favourite book of theContinue reading “Sermon for The Blessed Virgin Mary (The Assumption) 14th August 2022”

I’m sure we’ve all come across the saying, ‘Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today’. I’m equally sure that we all know what that saying means – it’s a warning about something that can affect us all, and probably does affect us all at one time or another – complacency. It’s aContinue reading “Sermon for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 8) 7th August 2022”

One of the staples of conversation between people must be what we watch on the TV. I’m sure if we think about the conversations we have with people, we’d probably all agree that subject crops up regularly in them. In that respect then, I’m probably something of a disappointment when people speak to me becauseContinue reading “Sermon for the 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 7) 31st July 2022”