Author: allsaintschorley

In my line of work I spend a lot of time with a lot of grieving people. Grieving people think about the things we don’t want to think about but they ask some good questions, sometimes they might ask why God would let this happen. Sometimes they might just say that it doesn’t feel real … Continue reading EASTER SUNDAY

Have you ever had one of those weeks where everything changes? I remember the week before the very first lockdown, it went from laughing about the idea of lockdown on the radio to silence on the streets. It was like stepping into another world. I’m sure you have your own memories of that time where … Continue reading Palm Sunday

About ten years ago, I made a fatal error. I don’t remember exactly when it was but it was probably when I was at an ASDA or a garden centre of some sort and Becky, who I deeply love, will have said something sounding quite innocent at the time along the lines of ‘can I … Continue reading Growing in the shape of the Cross

25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that … Continue reading Mothering Sunday: Mary at the foot of the Cross

When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the … Continue reading Jesus Clears the Temple Courts

Mark 9: 2-10 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling bright, such as no one on earth could brighten them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who … Continue reading Second Sunday of Lent – Listen to Him!

And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tested by Satan, and he was with the wild beasts, and the angels waited on him. Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the good news of God and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God … Continue reading The Temptation of Jesus

Can you think of a moment where another human’s touch lifted your heart? Maybe a meaningful hug or the wiping away of a tear. For me I remember that first moment after Maisie had been born. Months of planning, hours of panic and pain and gore and then the quiet. A little baby put on … Continue reading Jesus Touches the Untouchable