Sunday 14th June 2026

This Sunday we find ourselves back in Ordinary Time, that long green season of the Church year when the drama of Easter and Pentecost gives way to something rather more familiar: ordinary days, ordinary duties, ordinary weather, and ordinary lists of things that need doing.

But, of course, Christianity has always had a strange habit of making the ordinary glow with eternal significance. In the light of Christ, a broom, a rota, a cup of tea, a repaired hinge, or a small act of unnoticed care may become part of the kingdom of God quietly taking root among us.

That is why this Sunday’s readings feel especially fitting. In Matthew 9:35–10:8 and Psalm 116:9–17, Revd. Mark will be preaching on Christ’s compassion, his calling of ordinary disciples, and the question: “What shall I return to the Lord?” It is a question that can turn even the smallest act of service into something holy.

So do come along this Sunday, and perhaps bring someone with you. Ordinary Time is a good season for discovering that grace often arrives not with trumpets, but in the next faithful thing done with love.

Every blessing, Rev'd Mark