“Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word” **************************************************************** Malachi 3: 1-5; Hebrews 2: 14-18; Luke 2: 22-40 The opening line of Simeon’s song of praise is so familiar to all who pray Compline. Some days it seems to come with its own sigh of relief – or even groan […]
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Dr Dorothea Bertschmann’s sermon, 26.1.25
Sermon on Luke 4: 14-21 and 1 Corinthians 12: 12-31a A few weeks ago I needed to call the customer service of my bank, which I shall not name here. I am convinced that Dante, had he known about customer services, would have used it to illustrate the concept of purgatory. It started nice enough: […]
CRQ January 2025
Fr John’s sermon, 19 January 2025
The Wedding at Cana in Galilee 19/1/25 One dark night,fired with love’s urgent longings– ah, the sheer grace! –I went out unseen,my house being now all stilled. In darkness, and secure,by the secret ladder, disguised,– ah, the sheer grace! –in darkness and concealment,my house being now all stilled. On that glad nightin secret, for no […]
Holy Week 2025
Holy Week will have an especially vocational flavour this year, and we are particularly pleased to welcome ordinands and those wishing to explore their Christian vocation. Holy Week LeadersThe Rt Revd Mark Sowerby,(College Principal)The Ven David Sharples,(former DDO & CoR Alumni) Beginning our journey on the eve of Palm Sunday, we live together through the […]
Fr George’s sermon, 15 December
In today’s gospel John the Baptist talks about fruits. He tells the crowd: they have to bear fruit in their lives, and makes clear this starts with our neighbour. Everyone who has two coats must share with any who has none; whoever has food must do likewise. He says all this. And then Jesus appears. […]
News from Fr Thomas CR
November 2024 Storm Bert left us with a pleasant dusting of snow, some ice and plenty, plenty of rain. Selfishly, I dream of a deep stable covering of snow, sometimes. Just for the youngsters, you understand. The last apples have been gathered and used for Spicy Apple Jam and apple cider vinegar; the last apples […]
Fr Thomas’s sermon, 1 December 2024
Luke 21:25-36 And oh what joy, the year of Luke, Luke that writer of accounts and parables, that author who is ‘the scribe of the gentleness of Christ’. Yet as is so much of the gentle writers, it bears the greatest punch. Quite rightly Advent 1 kicks off with one of pictures of final […]
Br Patrick’s sermon, 10 November 2024
2024-11-10 (Heb. 9:24-28; Mark 1:14-20) The Kingdom of God has come near… Over the past eight or so years, I seem to have opened a number of sermons and talks I’ve done by quoting the phrase, ‘May you live in interesting times.’ It is commonly claimed to be an ancient Chinese curse, yet any […]
Fr John’s sermon, 3 November 2024
One of the joys of being involved with an auction is the way in which it can transport you to a moment of the past. A few months ago Bloomfield Auctions Belfast sold CS Lewis’s bath. I have walked down his road hundreds of times, I’ve often worshipped in St Mark’s Dundela where he was […]