Thought for the week - 5 September
Gospel Mark 7: 24 – 37 Last Sunday saw Jesus challenging the hypocritical Pharisees for making rituals an end in themselves, rather than...
Fr Andrew Sage
Sep 5, 2021
Thought for the week - The Assumption
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...
Fr Andrew Sage
Aug 15, 2021
Thought for the week - 8 August
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...
Fr Andrew Sage
Aug 8, 2021
Thought for the week - 1 August
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be...
Fr Harry
Aug 1, 2021
Thought for the week - 25 July
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...
Fr Andrew Sage
Jul 25, 2021
Thought for the week - 18 July. Passengers are welcome
Gospel reading Mark 6.30-34 & 53-end. Over the weekend of the ‘Petertide’ Ordinations and Ordination anniversaries (I celebrated my 35th...
Fr Andrew Sage
Jul 18, 2021
Thought for the week - 4 July
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’...
Fr Andrew Sage
Jul 4, 2021
Fr Andrew's thought for the week - 27 June
Gospel reading, Mark 5:21-43 Last Sunday in our Gospel reading we considered Jesus’ call for calm even in the midst of a sudden crisis,...
Fr Andrew Sage
Jun 27, 2021
Fr Andrew's thought for the week - 20 June
I have no idea if it was a change in Bible version or what, but I have never really noticed a small detail in today’s Gospel. The cushion....
Fr Andrew Sage
Jun 20, 2021
Thought for the week - 13 June
Oh dear! My brain aches! These seem such complicated readings don’t they! 2 Corinthians 5.6-10 Brothers and sisters, we are always...
Fr Andrew Sage
Jun 13, 2021