Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

If we cast our minds back some 18 months or so, to the start of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ll probably remember that, when the scale of the pandemic began to dawn on us and we realised how much our lives were going to have to change, at least for the foreseeable future, people were wonderingContinue reading “Sermon for Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday 3rd October, 2021”

Anyone who’s ever taken up something as a hobby or pastime, or who’s taken up something for a more serious purpose such as a sport with the intention of entering into competition, will know that, in order to improve at what we’re doing requires at least some dedication to the activity in question. We mayContinue reading “Sermon for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 17) 26th September, 2021”

Last weekend, I had the pleasure and privilege to conduct a wedding at St Gabriel’s and, as is very often the case at Church weddings, the Bible reading we heard was chapter 13 of St Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. I’m sure that’s a reading that we’re all familiar with. In it, St PaulContinue reading “Sermon for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 16) 19th September, 2021”