Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost August 29, 2021 Song of Solomon 2:8-13 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Anyone who has lived through a bout of food poisoning will tell you that they still feel slightly nauseous when they remember the food that made them so ill. I once caught amoebic dysentery from some olives I…
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost August 22, 2021 I Kings 8:22-30, 41-43 Ephesians 6:10-20 John 6:56-69 What sort of biographies do you enjoy reading? Biographies rich with historical detail, or biographies that reveal the inner lives of their subjects? The biograhies of Jesus in the New Testament give us both types. Generally speaking, while the three…
Bonjour ! While the Rev. Nigel Massey is enjoying his well-deserved annual summer leave, we will hold a morning prayer service every Monday at 9:15am (online and in-person) as well as a midday prayer service on Wednesday at 12:15pm (online and in-person) and a Sunday Morning Prayer service at 11:15am (online only). The Taizé prayer…
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost August 15, 2021 I Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 During the pandemic, a surprising number of people have focused on two things that they might have neglected in the past. Firstly, the lockdowns, restrictions and closures of restaurants and cafés have led to people cooking for themselves, sometimes for…
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost August 8, 2021 II Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 Ephesians 4:25-5:2 John 6:35, 41-51 When I was a child, my grandmother had a pressure cooker and I hated it. I wasn’t alone: her dog hated it too. It is a sort of saucepan with a very tight-fitting lid. It is so tight,…
Pentecost X August 1, 2021 II Samuel 11:26 -12:13 Ephesians 4:1-16 John 6:24-35 “Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber-baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimply knows he is doing…