Sermons

In the Biblical account of how things came to be and of how they are to be fulfilled, the place of light is very much part of the scenario.  According to Scripture it is the first act, the first gift, of creation.  When ‘in the beginning all was without form and void…GOD said, Let there […]

We can imagine the scene: a room with the door firmly locked.  A dozen men, maybe some women crowded in there, arguing.  Is it safe to go out?  Are the police after us?  What do we do now?  Do we leave Jerusalem?  And now there is the extraordinary news that the tomb is empty.  The […]

Have you had the experience of being admitted to a meeting on ‘Zoom’? It’s a little startling. Suddenly you have sight of a multiple rooms, from many places – maybe many places in different continents – and multiple faces, each in their own square. As I was told: it’s like finding yourself in the opening […]

Dear Companions and friends, I hope that you are all managing to live with the lockdown.  I know that some of you will have sorrow and anxiety so that a simple ‘I hope that you are all keeping’ well does not fit the bill.  I know and believe that God will be with you and […]

Gospel reading John 10.1-10 Many people at the moment are trying to cope with the unfamiliar experience of living in isolation. We shouldn’t underestimate the difficulties of it – the struggles of solitude are a classic theme in the monastic tradition, and one of the key places where we are tested. As a result the […]

What is this all about? It’s difficult for us today to believe – all this about a man being resurrected from the dead. How can I believe that? The problem is that we seem to think we are presented with a story and we’ve got to find a way of swallowing it. We tend to […]

MAUNDY THURSDAY 2020 – Remembered in dismemberment  May it be given to me to speak to you in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN Yesterday, our Jewish brothers and sisters began the great festival of Pesach, the Passover, recalling the dramatic events of the exodus from Egypt; an event like no […]

75 years ago, almost to the day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer preached his last sermon. His congregation were fellow prisoners in the punishment block at Flossenbuerg. He took as his text, “By his wounds we are healed.”(Isaiah 53:5) That is one of the things that makes this week so hard to endure. All through the week we […]

Today we enter the two weeks of Passiontide when we reflect on the suffering of Jesus for our salvation.   The Triduum is too short to give proper attention to all that Jesus experienced so it’s good to give time to ponder each day in Passiontide all the suffering Jesus endured from his agony in Gethsemane […]

From To a Mouse by Robert Burns But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley,                                                    […]