The gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 21 in this Year B is Mark 10.35–45. The lectionary choice is unfortunate this week, in that it cuts out the verses following last week’s read, Mark 10.32–34.
‘The hardest work I’ve ever done, and the most stressful, was as a parish priest—mainly because it was isolated, insatiably demanding and I was on the whole working without close colleagues—and that ...