My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. *************** Sometimes a biblical text doesn’t seem very encouraging for a preacher, or indeed for those who are hearing the sermon. The prophet Isaiah has God’s Word place an abyss between God and us, what we understand and do: as […]
Sermons
Sermon by Dr Tony Carroll, 13 March 2022
War, Identity and Home If a certain tendency, in at least some parts of the world, to over self-confidence in our advanced state as modern human beings needed any puncturing, the events of the last weeks must surely have let a considerable amount of air out of these tyres. The images and reports from Ukraine […]
Fr Nicolas’ sermon 6 March 2022
Jesus Tempted in the Desert I start my sermon not in the Judean desert, but in a place well known to some of us: Hogwarts school and the world of Harry Potter. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a boy called Cedric Diggory is killed by Voldemort. Professor Dumbledore speaks about him to […]
Fr Crispin’s sermon, 27 February 2022
SERMON 27 FEBRUARY 2022 The Sunday next before Lent (Quinquagesima) In the early centuries of the Christian Church the best cosmologists were in Egypt. For that reason Christians relied on the Egyptian calculations to know on what Sunday the great Festival of Easter would occur in any particular year. The Patriarch of Egypt, such as […]
Fr John’s sermon, 20 February 2022
Fr John preached without notes, and so we regret there isn’t a text to post.
Fr Oswin’s sermon, 13 February 2022
“He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people”. **************************** The level place: – life can be confusing at the best of times, and few would argue this is the best of times. How comforting it would be to have […]
Br Marc’s Sermon, 30 January 2022
Fourth Sunday of Epiphany: 30th January (HR) Readings: Ezek. 43: 27-44.4; Ps. 48; 1 Cor. 13; Lk. 2: 22-40. Simeons and Annas May it be given to me to speak in the name of the Son, to the glory of the Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit. AMEN Who are your Simeons and […]
Br Marc’s Sermon, 23 January 2022
CTMD Unity Service (Week of prayer for Christian Unity) 23rd January 2022: Epiphany 3 “We saw his Star at its rising and have come to pay him homage.” Lord, I pray that my words spoken in your name would open minds and hearts to your living Word, Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN Hear the words […]
Br Patrick’s sermon, 23 January 2022
2022-01-23 (Nehem. 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10, 1 Cor. 12:12-31a, Luke 4:14-21) In this period between Christmas and Lent, it can perhaps seem odd that we have in today’s Gospel reading, Luke’s account of the beginning of Jesus’s ministry after his forty days spent in the wilderness. Would this not be better to hear after Lent? […]