Gospel John 1. 1-14(18) We are perhaps most familiar with this passage at Christmas. We think of the coming of Jesus, announced by John....

Gospel Luke 2: 22-40 The Feast of The Presentation of Christ in the temple, or Candlemass can be kept on this Sunday, or on Tuesday, 2nd...

Gospel John 2: 1-11. The Wedding at Cana. The picture below is by Veronese, painted in 1563. It depicts the scene as if it were in...

Old Testament lesson Samuel 3: 1–20. Gospel John 1: 43-end. It is interesting isn’t it, what we ask people when we meet them for the...

It is strange isn't it, that despite the massive build up to Christmas the festival itself is so very quickly forgotten. For weeks,...

Christmas cancelled!? Well clearly some things are. At short notice family arrangements have had to be drastically altered or indeed...

Advent 4. Gospel - Luke 1.26-38 Well, it has happened again. I’m just so lucky! Once again I have been specially pre-selected and...

Readings: Isaiah 61.1-4, 8-end John 1.6-8, 19-28 Another reminiscence from Portsmouth days! During my time as a curate in Southsea I was...

Old Testament reading. Isaiah 40: 1-11 This is a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, depicting the story of what later became known as the...

When I first moved to ‘The North’ a few things took me by surprise! One was how, in a short visit to a local shop the shopkeeper could,...