Readings Bartimaeus and the crowd (Jan Sutch-Pickard) B: This is what hurts: not seeing, but hearing the hum of the crowd, bustling a few feet away – business as usual – But what’s it got to do with you? B: Then sensing the change in tempo and tone: something new, to be welcomed or contained, challenging the […]
Readings: Hebrews, 2:14 to the end. Luke, 2: 22-40 Sermon: “And Jesus was a Sailor …” When you embark upon a long-term relationship – and certainly into a marriage – it is inevitable, and I would hazard a guess at desirable also, that you begin to share with the other certain loves and passions that […]
Readings: Galatians, 1: 11-16A Matthew 19: 27 to end Sermon: The Conversion of St Paul The conversion of St Paul is a feast day we don’t often celebrate at St Mark’s. Maybe we feel resistant to the idea of dramatic conversions, of suddenly ‘seeing the light’. Maybe we have a history of being made to […]
Reading: Matthew 2, 1-12. Reflection: ‘This is our Story, this is our Song” Epiphany 1 (Sunday 10 January 2021) Reflections – Shan Rush
Readings: Ephesians, 1:3-14. John, 1: 1-18 Sermon: “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it” My mother always hated January. She didn’t like her children going to and from school in the dark. She had to make the best, as did many a 1960s/1970s vicar’s wife, of living in large […]