Category: Rev’d Clive Watkins

As we both said on Sunday “How good is God to bring us together with Holy Name Parish at this time in our life and ministry.” Thank you to everyone who helped make Sunday...

Is it all reflection and introspection, or all activity and good works? Is it Mary or Martha, to use the often misquoted example of the two sisters, friends of Jesus?   Last week’s gospel...

In a somewhat unusual move  the Vicar used the Ash Wednesday services to read from a document entitled ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART I commented that this was an entirely appropriate thing to do...

Mark chapter 1 continues at breakneck speed following Jesus on a typical day of ministry in Galilee – or so St Mark would have us believe. After a busy day of teaching, healing and...

Only three weeks into the gospel of Mark  and already so much has happened.  (And we haven’t left chapter 1 yet!) The ministry of John the Dipper comes to fulfilment when he baptises Jesus...

In his Christmas address the vicar quoted from a Christmas address by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Below is the quote in full.   “Relationship is the new thing at Christmas, the...

In something of a last minute dash to the finishing line, St Paul rounds off his first letter to the Thessalonian Christians with a brilliant, if somewhat frantic, summary of the essentials of a...

St Mark’s gospel is eager to point us to Jesus.  This is obvious from the first verse – “The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” So we will...

Last Sunday the Old Testament passage continued an exploration of the fundamental question  “Is the Lord among us or not?”  This time the question is framed more personally, with Moses seeking an assurance of...

The Watkins would like to thank all parishioners for their expressions of sympathy on the recent death in Newcastle of Clive’s brother Neil.