In today’s Gospel reading Jesus tells us that we should always pray and we should not give up because we think that our prayer will not be granted by God. Persevere in prayer no matter what. Jesus of course practised what he preached. I think for instance of his prayer in the garden of Gethsemane […]
Sermons
TRINITY 12 Gospel: Luke 14.25-33
In today’s Gospel reading Jesus has severe, harsh, challenging things to say to us. It’s important to recognize that he is using a Hebrew idiom when he says we should hate all our close relatives: father, mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters. Does he mean that if we want to follow Christ, we must […]
Trinity 4, Proper 10 Deut 30.9-14; Col 1.1-14; Luke 10.25-37
When Antony, Nicolas and I were students at the College, one element of the week remains firmly in my mind: on Friday afternoons we went hospital visiting. A troop of us would pile into the Bedford van and drive to Pinderfields and, duly dispersed between the wards, seek to bring comfort and counsel to those […]
CCR Webpage News: 8th July 2019
CCR Webpage News: 8th July 2019 Wow! Can you think we are well past the longest day of the year now? Time really is inexorable, and as well as the daily office and Eucharist, we have had much to keep us busy at the community of late. We welcomed the Society of the Resurrection (SR) […]
‘Not circumcision, but a new creation’
SERMON: Trinity 3 – Sunday 7th July 2019 Galatians 6: [1-6[7-16; Luke 10. 1-11; 16-20 ‘Not circumcision, but a new creation’ May I speak, and may you hear God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN On Monday, I spoke to the partner of a friend who has just been made deacon to find out how […]
2nd after Trinity Gal 5.1,13-25 Lk 9.51-62
Why are so many people so bad? Why are we ourselves inclined to do bad things? Newspapers may answer that it is because there are not enough police, or it is because people are poor, or because people are badly brought up or have not been taught how to behave. None of these answers provides […]
SERMON 9 JUNE 2019: PENTECOST. WHITSUNDAY. YEAR C. (1) ACTS 2:1-21. (2) JOHN 14: 8-17 (25-27)
On my way back from doing a bit of shopping in Mirfield – it’s amazing how often I manage to go shopping, in spite of being sworn to “simplicity” of life – I said “Excuse me” to a young mother whose little boy was running along a doorstep. “I’m preaching on Sunday, and it would […]
Br Marc’s Companions Letter – May 2019
We have had a super weekend, with the arrival of Abbot Ignatius and Prior Antonius from Trier and the Huysberg arriving on Friday. There have been several opportunities for conversation in English and German alike, and we have had some varied topics to consider, such as the various expressions of Benedictine life lived in community […]
St Helens, Hemsworth
Anyone living in this part of the world knows what a coal face is! They are now, largely, a thing of the past, but time was when everyone in this area depended on coalfaces. Without those coalfaces the villages all died. Those coal faces gave life to this world. I like to think of parish […]
Second Sunday in Eastertide
John 20.19-31 The Holy Catholic Church throughout the world reads this Gospel on the 2nd Sunday in Eastertide. Not only Roman Catholic and Anglican churches but Orthodox churches also. The Orthodox name today St Thomas Sunday because the Gospel tells how he recognised the risen Lord Jesus as his Lord and God. This octave day […]