Monthly Archives: November 2016
Sermon: Advent Sunday, 27 November 2016, St John the Divine
Readings Isaiah 2. 1-5, Romans 13. 11-end, Matthew 24. 36-44 Preacher The Revd Neil Summers Advent Sunday: a new church year begins today, and our three-year cycle of Bible readings goes to the first Sunday in Year A – back … Continue reading
Sermon: Advent Sunday, 27 November 2016, St Mary’s, morning
Reading Matthew 24: 36-44 Preacher Revd Alan Sykes I’m going to play the professional northerner card again, I’m afraid. I just can’t resist it. Now, some of you out there may think that life in the North of England is … Continue reading
Sermon: Remembrance Sunday, 13 November 2016, St John the Divine
Readings Malachi 4. 1-2a, 2 Thessalonians 3. 6-13, and Luke 21. 5-19 Preacher The Reverend Neil Summers ‘Remember’ is one of those wonderful, wide-ranging English words that can mean as little as having a vague recollection of something, right through to … Continue reading
Sermon: Remembrance Sunday, 13 November 2016, St Matthias
Readings Malachi 4. 1-2a, 2 Thessalonians 3. 6-13, and Luke 21. 5-19 Preacher The Revd Sister Margaret Anne McAlister ASSP Today on Remembrance Sunday here as in many other Commonwealth and other countries in the world we observe a day … Continue reading
A new Team Vicar at St Matthias
A new Team Vicar for St Matthias The Rev’d Anne Crawford I was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the daughter of a miner and a nursery nurse. I spent the first ten years of my life living in Barnsley, and then … Continue reading
Sermon: Third Sunday before Advent, 6 November 2016, St John the Divine
Readings Job 19: 23-27; 2 Thessalonians 2: 1-5, 13-17; Luke 20: 27-38 Preacher The Reverend Neil Summers The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. So wrote L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between in 1953. I reckon we … Continue reading