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”
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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”
Sermon for the Holy Family, 28th December 2025
I must admit that I find the Church’s calendar rather odd at this time of year. Our Gospel reading for today, the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, is as we’ve just heard, is the story of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt and it begins, ‘When the Magi had departed….’ and yet, in the Church’sContinue reading “Sermon for the Holy Family, 28th December 2025”
Parish Church of St Mark Chadderton 