Sermons

Lent 2 Romans 4:13 – end Mark 8:30 – end The order  the Scriptures are read at Mass isn’t always helpful.  The Epistles  in theory are written AFTER the events  which are described in the Gospels.   Of course we all know that they were written the other way round, the epistles first.  So  this morning […]

Mark 9.2-9 Jesus said to Peter, James and John, ‘Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.’   Peter had recently acclaimed Jesus as God’s anointed Messiah.  James would be the first apostle to witness to Jesus by his martyrdom.   John in the Gospel says Jesus is […]

‘The Sacred Bundle‘ – Canon Cathy Rowling (The first 10 seconds is silent)

In the constellation of Orion there are three tiny stars that make up the sword of Orion. The middle one is barely visible to the naked eye. Yet this is the Great Orion Nebula described in a catalogue of deep sky objects as: Orion Nebula Messier 42 (M42, NGC 1976) is the brightest starforming, and […]

‘the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep.’ Have you ever felt overwhelmed? I am sure you have. The unimaginable scenes from Washington DC this week were of being overwhelmed. [The surprised joy of those doing the overwhelming, the insurrectionists, … contrasted with the very real fears …] Senators […]

Recently one of my nieces became pregnant with her first baby. I shall never forget that moment when she told me with joy shining in her eyes, and showed me the baby’s heart beat on her phone. It was only 8 weeks from conception, a tiny, fragile little foetus, yet already the heart was beating […]

John 1. 6-8, 19-28 John the Baptist said, ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: “ Make straight the way of the Lord.” The four Gospels agree that John wanted everyone to Repent and be baptised,  He believed that ‘A day of wrath and doom impending’ was imminent,   God’s Messiah would come […]

When we’ve lived as committed Christian believers all our lives, brought up in a Christian family, gone to Christian schools, higher education all Christian too, then theological College and ordination, it’s hard to see how amazing, how exciting, how turning the world upside down it must have been at the beginning, when it was all […]

Dear Friends and Companions, I hope that you are all well. I know how depressing the news can be and I know that many of you are living under restrictions that are making life difficult for you. Many people have friends who have been ill with the virus and some have been bereaved. Among the […]

1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18   and Matthew 25: 1-13 Our ability to remember is a great gift. Memories from childhood of long summer holidays playing football with friends until dusk will always be ones that I shall treasure. We all guard some particular memories as special in our lives and they represent a precious repertoire of […]