This week’s services & events
- Sunday 19th May
- 8:00 am: Holy CommunionService follows the Book of Common Prayer
- 10:00 am: The Parish EucharistThe main act of worship for the whole community. Children's groups and a crèche run concurrently. Sunday lunch is served at 12.15 pm for those who would like to stay. Preacher: CTBB Pentecost Service
- 8:00 pm: Night Service - Taizé/Sung Compline.A night service in the style of a Taizé prayer or short service of Sung Compline (to be confirmed) led by Anne Padget and Alison Creasey.
- Thursday 23rd May
- 11:00 am: Pondering the Parables discussion groupPONDERING THE PARABLES After Holy Communion on Thursdays, 11.00am.
- Sunday 26th May
- 8:00 am: Holy CommunionService follows the Book of Common Prayer
- 10:00 am: The Parish EucharistThe main act of worship for the whole community. Children's groups and a crèche run concurrently. Sunday lunch is served at 12.15 pm for those who would like to stay. Preacher: to be confirmed.
- 8:00 pm: Night Service - "Completeness"A simple, open and reflective night service based on the theme of "Completeness". Led by Jen Ryder and Helen Stocker.
- Sunday 19th May
Tag Archives: justice
Sheffield May Day Trek: 6 May 2013
The Sheffield May Day Trek is an annual sponsored walk to raise money for Christian Aid and CAFOD. It began 30 yrs ago and with the associated night hike raises around £15,000 each year for the two charities! The money raised … Continue reading
Divisions at the Lord’s Supper
‘Do this in remembrance of me.’ Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivable human circumstance, for … Continue reading
March 3, 2013
in Sermons
Tagged community, Corinth, eucharist, holy communion, Jesus, justice, kingdom
Consultation on St Mark’s engagement with Social Justice – Saturday 2 February 2013
People at St Mark’s have long seen a need to relate their faith to social action. Since the early 1990s, the Social Responsibility Group (SRG) has been the church’s umbrella body for activities of this kind, though SRG has not had an … Continue reading
January 6, 2013
in Archived, Special Events
Tagged community, Jesus, justice, kingdom, poverty, sharing meals
Taking Up The Cross
I suspect that most, if not all, of us have heard of the Greenbelt Festival – the annual cultural celebration of inclusive, progressive Christianity that takes place at Cheltenham Race Course over August bank holiday weekend. In fact, some of … Continue reading
September 16, 2012
in Sermons
Tagged collaboration, cross, intervention, Jesus, justice, kingdom, politics
Radical Hospitality
Today is marked in churches around the country as Racial Justice Sunday. As we are all aware, racial justice is something that has been newsworthy for centuries. From the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, to Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech in 1963.
I once read a story about a priest in a church who, every single Sunday, preached the exact same sermon. Continue reading
Climate Change And The Future : Finding A Way To Sustainable Consumption
Wednesday 23 and Wednesday 30 November, 7.30pm, St Mark's Church. Two evenings of discussion with introductory talks by the Rev'd Dr Michael Bayley.
It is all too obvious that concern about tackling climate change has dropped off the political agenda and also, for the most part, out of the mind of the public at large. The aim of these two evenings is not, however to have a gloom session. It is to look for signs of hope without being naïve or unrealistic. Continue reading
Cancelling Debt
This is the fourth in our sermon series on the Lord’s Prayer and by now it will have become apparent that although this prayer consists of various acclamations and petitions they are intimately related to one another to the extent … Continue reading
A Strange Kind of Justice
I don’t know if you have noticed how the Three R’s are experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment and not only in the field of education where the tried and tested, ‘Reading, Writing and Arithmetic’ continue to be … Continue reading