Sermon on John 17: 6-19 Everybody who reads the Gospel of John and in particular the Farewell Speeches knows how repetitive and almost redundant John’s language is. In our Greek translation group we found, that if you could be bothered to memorize a limited amount of Johannine key terms you would have made a prudent […]
Sermons
Fr Oswin’s sermon, 5 May 2024
“By this we know that we love the children of God … ” *********************************************** The Johannine writings turn faster and faster around the word ‘love’. We’ve been hearing a lot of it in the readings from The First Letter of John at Evensong this past week. Occasionally, as our heads spin, the texts throw out […]
Fr Charlie’s Sermon, 7 April 2024
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. In the name of the Father… There is a kind of sequence discernible in the Resurrection appearances in the gospels, a sequence in which we witness the disciples’s growing capacity to grasp the implications of the Resurrection […]
Fr David Babbington’s sermon, 10th March 2024
This is a first for me. While in the parish, I was never able to use the readings for the fourth Sunday of Lent. Instead, we always used the alternate readings set, those for Mothering Sunday. I had thought that that was a difficult subject to preach on in the middle of the Lenten season, […]
Fr George’s sermon, 3 March 2024
The cleansing of the temple A friend of mine lives in a small market town, and the first time I visited him, he took me to see the medieval parish church. It was quite a big church, and the whole nave was taken up with stalls selling everything from bricabrac and electronics to books and […]
Fr Nicolas’ sermon, 25 February 2024
Lent 2. Mark 8: 31-38 Silly old Peter. He got it wrong again! It’s easy to say that, isn’t it? We know the rest of the story. We know that out of the suffering and death on the Cross comes the Resurrection. Peter didn’t know that. If we had been in his shoes we would […]
Fr George’s sermon, 21 January 2024
The incarnation works in 2 directions – it is a break-in and a break-out. God breaks into our world, like an asteroid, leaving a crater and changing the atmosphere. This sounds dramatic, but it is not easy for but we have to grasp the scale of what has happened. We get on with our little […]
Br Patrick’s Sermon, 7 January 2024
2024-01-07 (Baptism of Christ) (Gen. 1:1-5, Acts 19:1-7, Mark 1:4-11) This weekend must be confusing for any visitors from the East, by which I don’t mean any from as far east as where the Wise Men were from, but for those visitors from the Eastern Church, this weekend in the Western Church’s calendar must […]
Br Marc’s sermon, 24 December 2023
SERMON: ADVENT 4 YEAR B: (Christmas Eve) Readings: Ps. 89: 1-4, 19-26; Romans 16: 25-27; Lk. 1: 26-38 May I speak to you in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN The Mystery of the Incarnation “How can this be”? This is the question posed by Mary in today’s gospel, Luke’s narrative […]
Fr Charlie’s sermon, 17 December 2023
Who are you? In the name of the Father… What is the big deal with John the Baptist? Here we are at the business end of the season of Advent, diligently preparing ourselves for the coming of Christ, and yet, for the second Sunday in a row now, we find our attention directed not toward […]