“I came to bring fire to the earth.” This is unlikely to be the good news from Jesus we most want to hear this morning. Fire destroys. And our first thoughts easily turn to our vulnerability. One piece of news this week has been that a house-end mural in London depicting the fires of Armageddon […]
Sermons
Fr Nicolas Sermon, 31 July 2022
THE RICH FARMER. Luke 12: 13 – 21 My first reading of the story we have just heard made me feel rather smug. Here is a character it is easy to dislike – a rich, self-indulgent farmer. He has had fantastic crops. This is probably because he owns a lot of slaves, who have to […]
Br Marc, Sermon for Trinity, 10 July 2022
The Moving Insight of Mercy “But a Samaritan while travelling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity.” (Lk. 10:33) May it be given to me to speak to you in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN At lunch the other day, we began a foray […]
Sermon by Fr Tony Carroll at the CR Festival, 9 July 2022
The internet cut out before Fr Tony started – we’re sorry to those who missed it, but here it is. Festival Day Community of the Resurrection “Here am I, send me”. These words of the prophet Isaiah are echoed in our gospel by the admonition to acknowledge Jesus before others as a true disciple is […]
Br Philip’s sermon, 19 June 2022
Trinity 1 2022 Proper 7 Year C Luke 8 :26-39 May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be now and always acceptable in your sight : O Lord our strength and our redeemer. Amen. Who then is this, that he commands the winds and the water, and they obey […]
Fr George’s sermon, 15 May 2022
When Jesus first called together the group of the 12, he was the focus, he was the magnet. All their hopes and desires and love were focused on him. In this passage from John’s gospel he now says that he is to be taken away, and they are to find their focus now in loving […]
Dr Dorothea Bertschmann’s sermon, 8 May
Sermon on John 10: 22-30 and Acts 9:36-43 Mirfield Upper Church Sunday, 8th of May 2022 Revd Dr Dorothea Bertschmann May I speak in the name of the living God Who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit There is nothing which says “spring” to me like sheep grazing peacefully in the sunshine or resting in […]
Fr Crispin’s sermon, 24 April 2022
The Second Sunday of EasterActs 5.27-32 John 20.19-end I should like us to think about a verse in St Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 28 verse 2. “The Angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat upon it. Alleluia. Alleluia.” This verse is sung at Mattins as the antiphon […]
Br Marc’s sermon, 3 April 2022
Lent V: Passion Sunday 3.4.2022 – HR. Readings: Isaiah 43: 16-21; Ps. 126; Phil. 3: 4b-14; Jn. 12: 1-8 May it be given me to speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN “Mary took a pound of costly perfume, anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped them with her hair,” says the […]
Fr John’s sermon, 27 March 2022
These are notes, as the sermon was not fully written out. Funeral good friend. He had two sons. Refused to talk to each other’ Blessed with the best set of brothers and sister that anyone could wish for but even between us there have been moments…. Ever since Cain and Abel stories of fraternal conflicts […]