Dear Companions and friends, It seems a long time since I wrote to you all. As I said in January there is now quite a lot more activity for much fewer Brethren. The work is more exciting than ever but it does mean that we are sometimes under pressure and I am very slow at […]
Sermons
John 12. Mary Anointing Jesus
Back in January there was a very bad outbreak of violence in Zimbabwe. Party thugs went around beating up the opposition. Probably the opposition did some beating up too. In the small township of Tafara, outside Harare the people had a very hard time. Police and soldiers dragged young men and women out of their […]
Prodigal Son
“I will get up and go to my father and say to him, Father I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.” It’s a fine little speech. It is deeply touching. It seems to show penitence, […]
Companions Letter March 2019
CCR News Lady Day 2019 Yesterday (25th) we kept the wonderful feast of our Lord’s Annunciation to Blessed Mary, and were reminded again of the word in Hebrew, Hineni, Here I am.’ We give thanks for Mary, Samuel, Jeremiah and all the holy ones past and present who respond to the call of their God […]
Third Sunday in Lent: 24th March 2019
The fruit worthy of Repentance …Unless you repent you will all perish as they did.’ (Lk. 13: 2) May I speak in the name of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN I’ve not been happy with myself for a long time. I’d lost weight and was going good. Then I spent every day for […]
Annunciation sermon preached at St George’s Nottingham
Two weeks ago I was in a small town in Zimbabwe called Chipinge. A few days after I left a cyclone hit Chipinge washing away hundreds of houses, bridges, roads and killing many people. The devastation to crops on the Eastern side of Zimbabwe has been disastrous. Across the border in Mozambique things have been […]
Deut. 26:1-11. (2) Ps. 91. (3) ROMANS 10:8B-13. (4) LUKE 4:1-13
FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT YEAR C 26:1-11. (2) Ps. 91. (3) ROMANS 10:8B-13. (4) LUKE 4:1-13 You might think someone’d chosen the preacher for such a distinguished congregation, but in fact it came about by chance, so please accept inadequacy. It is so easy, it doesn’t feel like temptation at all, to use our positions […]
Companion Letter February 2019
Hello again! How are you all keeping as February marches on towards Lent and the anticipation of Easter triumph? Maybe you have already begun giving thought to your Lenten discipline. What might you lay aside or take up this year? It is always good to read a Lent book (Either ++Canterbury ‘s or some other.) […]
Luke 6 Blessings and Woes
Sermon on Luke 6: 17-26 (and Jeremiah 17:5-10; Psalm 1, 1 Corinthians 15: 12-20) May the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts Be acceptable to you O Lord, our rock and our redeemer. Amen “A tree planted by streams of water.” These are the words on the headstone […]
Don’t forget the poor. Epiphany 3 2019
“Don’t forget the poor.” That is what one of the Cardinals said to Pope Francis as soon as he was elected. And he hasn’t. Over and over again he has reminded us that the poor are not on the edge of Christian life. Jesus put them at the centre. So must we. When St Matthew […]