Every year on the late May Bank Holiday, the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham takes place. If you ever visit Walsingham for ‘The National’ as it’s often called, you’ll find that, as well as the thousands who are there to give thanks to God for the life, work and exampleContinue reading “Sermon for Advent 4, 22nd December 2024”
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Sermon for Advent 3, 15th December 2024
Today, the third Sunday of Advent, is one of only two Sundays in the Church’s year when we use rose as a liturgical colour, the other being the fourth Sunday of Lent. It’s no coincidence that both of these days are towards the end of these two great penitential seasons of the Church’s year. TheContinue reading “Sermon for Advent 3, 15th December 2024”
Sermon for Christ the King, 24th November 2024
I was born in the old St Mary’s Hospital on the corner of Whitworth Street West and Oxford Street in the city centre of Manchester, and my first home was in Miles Platting and so I am, undeniably, a Mancunian. Having said that I spent my school years and up until my mid-twenties living inContinue reading “Sermon for Christ the King, 24th November 2024”