Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

One of the problems I’ve spoken about in the past is that of trying to really understand what’s going on in a Sunday Gospel reading when we read them as we do, that is, taken out of the context of the Gospel as a whole. And I think today’s Gospel reading is a good exampleContinue reading “Sermon for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, 29th June 2025”

One of the most well-known of all prayers is the Serenity Prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. This is a quite modern prayer; it was only composed in the 1930’s, but it has become aContinue reading “Sermon for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 22nd June 2025”

In my sermon last Sunday, I spoke about some of the problems we encounter in the Church when it comes to both the profession of our faith and the living out of our faith. To be more specific, I spoke about the problem of people passing off their own ideas as articles of faith andContinue reading “Sermon for Trinity Sunday, 15th June 2025”