Today we’re celebrating one of the great feasts of the Church’s year. To give the feast it’s proper name, we’re celebrating the Presentation of the Lord because, as we’ve just heard in the Gospel, what we celebrate today is that day when Jesus, as a first-born son, was taken to the temple 40 days after his birthContinue reading “Sermon for The Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas) 1st February 2026”
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Sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 18th January 2026
I don’t know if anyone watched it, but during the past week the 1971 film Mary Queen of Scots was shown on TV. I only managed to catch a few minutes of it here and there myself, but I have seen it before and it is a film I quite enjoy, as did many other people as is shownContinue reading “Sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 18th January 2026”
Propers for the Epiphany of the Lord, 4th January 2026
Entrance Antiphon Behold, the Lord, the Mighty One, has come; and kingship is in his grasp, and power and dominion. The Collect O God, who on this day revealed your Only Begotten Son to the nations by the guidance of a star, grant in your mercy, that we, who know you already by faith, may be brought to behold the beauty ofContinue reading “Propers for the Epiphany of the Lord, 4th January 2026”
Parish Church of St Mark Chadderton 