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05/09/2025

Sunday 7th September, The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 18)
10.00 Parish Sung Eucharist.

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Today we welcome Fr Alan Simpson as celebrant and preacher, as the Rector is on annual leave.
Fr Alan is Associate Priest at Holy
Family; St Luke, Lightbowne; and Most Holy Trinity, Blackely, alongside their Incumbent, Fr Paul, and the Assistant Curate, Fr Ben.
When not ‘robed and in the sanctuary’ Fr Alan leads Governance for The
Manchester Diocesan Board of Finance, based at St John’s House, Bury; and is Secretary of the Diocesan Advisory, and Diocesan Mission and Pastoral Committees, so knows the Rector well, who is very grateful for Fr Alan’s support in all ways.

01/09/2025

Thanks be to God for the gift of Jason, baptised on Sunday at 'the main service'. I hope you can see his sister's sparkly shoe buckles.

29/08/2025

Sunday 31st August, The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (BCP)

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9.00 am (said)
10.00 am (sung) with Holy Baptism, and 'Back to School Sunday' Blessing.

Pecking Order?
Like it or not, many if not most humans have an innate sense of social pecking order, and there are some who even work at it!
Sometimes, if not often, we isolate ourselves from those who may benefit from our company and hospitality because is it safer to ‘trough’ with people like us (PLU) - those perceived as at least our ‘social equals’ - and even insinuate ourselves with our ‘social betters’. However, there is a chance we might be wrong-footed, if our so-called betters perceive we are not ‘up to snuff’ and turn out to be even more status-conscious than us, or even in kindness indicate we are over-stepping the mark.
Christian Discipleship is not a sequence of Hyacinth Bucket Candlelight Suppers. Christian Discipleship is not risk-free; nor is reward for risk guaranteed.
Fr A

Image Tissot The Meal in the House of the Pharisee Brooklyn Museum
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22/08/2025

Sunday 24th August, The Tenth Sunday after Trinity, (Proper 16)
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The well-tempered Sabbath

Each year there will be fewer of us who remember Sundays, the Christian Sabbath, when nearly all the shops were shut – the supermarkets definitely so – and there was no sport, professional or amateur. Sunday really did seem like a day of rest, forced maybe, but on balance welcome. That or my memory tricks me. However we interpret Sabbath today, is it not common sense and good stewardship of ourselves to set aside and make special at least one day of the week for rest, and to spend time with God and one another? As we are the Body of Christ, we owe it to one another to do this together. It is 2025 not 1925, but Sundays can still be that precious day of the week. Ought we to resist the invitation to the Lord’s table more often than not? Coming together in worship makes us whole.
Jesus neatly differentiates between ‘work’ and ‘duty’ in his healing, and riposte to the pernickety Pharisees. He demonstrates the most practical and loving response to an apparent conflict of interest or activity. However, today, let us not be so flexible and open-ended about the Sabbath that by accident or design we fail to make space for that duty and joy which is worship to God, in whose service is perfect freedom.
Fr A.

16/08/2025

Sunday 17th August, 2025, The Ninth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 15)
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The Forecast: there may be trouble ahead.

Luke piles on the eschatological imagery in today’s Gospel reading; the themes of discernment and prioritizing much in evidence. Little in the coming of the Kingdom is going to be handed to us on a plate. Beware of false prophets; and in following things unseen risk the less comfortable path.
This may mean ructions in the family unit, although not, we pray, to the extent of the Gospel reading, whose language is extreme for the sake of emphasis. However, as we wait for the coming of the Kingdom, whose side are we on? We recall those earlier lessons of ‘walk on by’ if ears are closed and there is no receptivity of the ‘good news’.
Given the times in which Jesus ministered on earth were very probably more superstitious than ours, without the benefit of modern weather-forecasting; and given the heat and dust from the east and the moisture from the west (the Mediterranean Sea) there would have been some very dramatic skyscapes indicating God’s anger. The recent heatwaves should remind us that humankind, in how it cares for itself and the planet, is judged continuously.
Fr A
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05/08/2025

Sunday 10th August, The Eighth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 14)
Very early notice this week, as the Rector is away.
Please come to give a very warm welcome to The Revd Canon Paul Hutchins, our neighbour at Holy Family, who will be presiding and preaching.
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Welcome
We welcome The Revd Canon Fr Paul Hutchins SSC as Celebrant and Preacher today.
Fr Paul is Rector ‘next door’ at Holy Family, with additional responsibility for Most Holy Trinity, Blackley, and another neighbour of ours, St Luke Lightbowne.
He is also keeping an eye on some churches in Salford; and is the Bishop of Beverley’s representative in the Diocese of Manchester; with many other responsibilities in the Church locally and nationally.
Thank you for helping us this Sunday, and we look forward to what you will share with us.

Fr A

Image (not very inclusive and tongue in cheek) from 'The Art of Manliness'

01/08/2025

Sunday 3rd August, 2025, The Seventh Sunday after Trinity (Proper 13)
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“Vanity of vanities…All is vanity”

You can’t take it with you when you go. That is, if there is anything left, given the current economic crisis. If you go to Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, or pretty much any church for that matter, you will see the tombs of people who, in their time, were regarded as indispensable. Some of us make ripples in the pond that last a bit longer than others.
It’s not that what we do doesn’t matter: it’s just that we ought not to kid ourselves of our importance or set too much store, literally, in what we have achieved, especially wealth, as the cautionary tale of the Rich Fool shows.
It is our richness before God as the baptised which matters; those who have risen with Christ in the waters of baptism. We are not alone: we are with Christ. Our faith brings us much wealth which sets off the need for storing up treasures, those non-essentials here on earth. God gives us all we need: sometimes when we want it.
Fr A

Image: 'The Parable of the Foolish Rich Man' Rembrandt

26/07/2025

Sunday 27th July, The Sixth Sunday after Trinity
9.00 am Said Holy Communion (BCP 1662)
10.00 am Sung Holy Communion (BCP 1662)

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Image: Jesus teaches his disciples Duccio di Buoninsegna

Lord, teach us to pray

“ He was praying”. Was this aloud or in the quiet of his heart? Jesus instructs his disciples “When ye pray, say..”. I imagine our first response would be to speak rather than to be mute.
Do you find prayer difficult? There are many different styles, formal, informal, stream of consciousness, random and so on. Why do we bother if God knows all the secrets of our hearts and knows our necessities before we ask? Perhaps we should allow fore more silence and allow God to speak to us, rather our than blather on.
The Lord’s Prayer is a fixed form of prayer, probably engrained in our memories in the words found in the Book of Common Prayer. To hear other versions in English sometimes causes upset and indignation. However, it was not delivered originally in Elizabethan English but in Aramaic, and we will hear a version of that today; and a version in Persian. In whatever language we recite or read it the Lord’s Prayer has a cadence which makes it immediately recognisable and almost mantra-like. It is not a ‘vain repetition’ if it is used with intent. It makes us one.
Fr A

19/07/2025

Sunday 20th July 2025 The Fifth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 11)
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Being and doing
The circumstances of Jesus coming in to the home of Martha and Mary are not clear. Martha welcomes him, but we don’t know whether this was by appointment or because Jesus just happened to be in the area, having peeled off from the ‘others’ (the ‘they’ in v38) thinking he’d visit. It’s quite possible the two women heard that he was nearby, and were in readiness, in their respective ways, just in case he popped in.
Another way of looking at this is to consider where Luke has placed it in his narrative: it’s the filling between the Parable of the Good Samaritan, which was last week’s gospel reading and precedes this vignette, placed immediately before the account of The Lord’s Prayer (Luke 11.1-4).
Martha and Mary, whom we take to be observant Jewish women, aware that kindness and hospitality are pretty much a religious duty within the their community. The example of the Samaritan expands that beyond the ‘community’. We also learn from Martha and Mary that those who are most dutifully hospitable can miss out, especially if others don’t step up. This is not to say that Mary was slacking; but her behaviour here and the commendation for it reminds us that to be and to sit at Our Lord’s feet is every bit as important, maybe more so, as we are fed and nourished by His words. This segues neatly to next week’s Gospel reading, as above, which teaches us how to pray.
Fr A

Image: South Aisle, All Saints Newton Heath.

17/07/2025

Dear friends, a final push for tonight's concert. Free entry. Many raffle prizes with tickets £1 a strip. I'm doing a turn, but don't let that put you off. It's been amazing how the Newton Heath community and well-wishers beyond have pulled to to help us. See you later for an epic evening.

12/07/2025

10.00 am Sunday 13th July, The Fourth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 10)
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Overthinking? Just be kind.

There will be millions and millions having a bad day who may be blighted by ‘doomscrolling’ on their smartphones and tablets. The data are scraped from cyberspace by Google or Meta which then amplifies the problem. Depressed? Fatigued? Cant get anything done? Click below. Then of course the useful stuff is only available if you sign up or buy. Guilty as charged m’lud.
The Samaritan in today’s Gospel reading, the place, the other people, and so on, have been the subjects of overthinking for centuries and I’ll be sharing an example of that in my homily.
The Samaritan seemingly didn’t think about the repercussions of his acts, unlike the other people in the story who passed by. He wasn’t concerned about the ‘optics’ of this; how it would have looked; running it past HR in case of reputational harm to the organisation. Neither was he reckless. He was kind.
The same with our neighbours in need today. When we say “if you need anything, just call” we place the ball, wrongly, in their court Such is the fug people can be in they won’t call, so just do it anyway.
The surveillance and control of the data held about us is worrying. However, remember the surveillance and control of an infinitely kinder type, of our Farther in heaven, who knows our necessities before we ask. This not to say we should never pray, as prayer ought to be more about allowing ourselves time and space for God to speak to us. God has us covered if our hearts are pure. Fr A
Image: Chartres Cathedral, early C13

05/07/2025

Sunday 6th July, The Third Sunday after Trinity (Proper 9)
10.00 am Parish Sung Eucharist
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Travel and Peace.

Who’d send people out so lightly equipped on such a mission as the one we read about today in the Gospel reading? Luke, not one for repetition on the whole, but a chapter earlier (9.1-6) relates similar instruction to ‘the twelve.’
Why the duplication? Twelve may relate to the Twelve Tribes of Israel; seventy two, or seventy to the non-Jewish nations. Which one is it, seventy or seventy-two? That depends on whether we take the Hebrew version of Genesis 10 (70) or the Greek one (72) where Moses chooses the elders to help him ‘reach’ each nation o f the world. This fits with Luke’s Gentile agenda.
Written at a time when the end times or Second Coming were anticipated within the span of a generation, there is advice not to waste time. I’m sure we can carry this forward into our times, especially in dealing with symptoms rather than the causes of suffering. After all our time and resources are finite.
Is it not better that we work towards bringing the Kingdom of God in its fullness in numerous, small increments, rather than continually banging our heads on a brick wall, or knocking on a door bolted outside and in?
In our work as the body of Christ here, we can take encouragement from the successes of those who were ‘sent out’ as we read about them in Luke’s other volume The Acts of the Apostles as we fulfil our commitments as Christians, incrementally. As they say, look after the pence, and the pounds will look after themselves.
Fr A.

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