The Holy Angels I thought for a change, rather than look at the Sunday Gospel, we might look at one of the great feast days from the last...

Gospel, Mark 9.38-50 Well, here we go again – a familiar theme with Mark. The disciples getting it wrong again! This time they are...

Gospel Mark 9: 30-37. Mark is not very kind to the Disciples in his Gospel. They are slow, sometimes even stupid, they are the ones who...

Last Sunday, Ian asked me “Are you doing a thought for the week next Sunday?” My initial reaction was – No! My Thought for the week is...

Gospel Mark 7: 24 – 37 Last Sunday saw Jesus challenging the hypocritical Pharisees for making rituals an end in themselves, rather than...

The commemoration of the death of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the Dormition, or falling asleep, as it was known in the East) is known as the...

Trinity 10. Gospel John 6: 35 & 41-51 In today’s gospel, John picks up, or rather continues, Jesus’ theme of The Bread of Life – a...

Gospel John 6 1-21. I have been very moved by the messages of support following my homily (and thought for the week) last weekend. Bless...

Gospel reading Mark 6.30-34 & 53-end. Over the weekend of the ‘Petertide’ Ordinations and Ordination anniversaries (I celebrated my 35th...

Readings: Ezekiel 2: 1-5, 2Cor 12: 2-10, Mark 6:1-13. Evangelism may not be a dirty word, but for many if not most ‘ordinary Christians’...