Sermons

Sermon on Luke 20: 27-38 May the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts Be acceptable in your sight O Lord, our rock and our redeemer “He is God, not of the dead but of the living. For to him all of them are alive.” A long time ago, in a […]

Hello everyone, It seems a long time since I sent you a letter. It has been a full and eventful summer beginning with a most enjoyable Festival weekend at the beginning of July. Thanks to everyone who came, thanks to everyone who helped. Then for the rest of the month a good and eventful Chapter […]

St. John’s, Upper Hopton. Feast of Dedication: 27th October 2019 Ephesians 2: 19-22; John 2: 13-22 Until you become the dwelling-place of God ‘[Y]ou are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.’ May it […]

In today’s Gospel reading Jesus tells us that we should always pray and we should not give up because we think that our prayer will not be granted by God.  Persevere in prayer no matter what. Jesus of course practised what he preached.  I think for instance of his prayer in the garden of Gethsemane […]

In today’s Gospel reading Jesus has severe, harsh, challenging things to say to us.  It’s important to recognize that he is using a Hebrew idiom when he says we should hate all our close relatives: father, mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters.  Does he mean that if we want to follow Christ, we must […]

When Antony, Nicolas and I were students at the College, one element of the week remains firmly in my mind: on Friday afternoons we went hospital visiting. A troop of us would pile into the Bedford van and drive to Pinderfields and, duly dispersed between the wards, seek to bring comfort and counsel to those […]

CCR Webpage News: 8th July 2019 Wow! Can you think we are well past the longest day of the year now? Time really is inexorable, and as well as the daily office and Eucharist, we have had much to keep us busy at the community of late. We welcomed the Society of the Resurrection (SR) […]

SERMON: Trinity 3 – Sunday 7th July 2019 Galatians 6: [1-6[7-16; Luke 10. 1-11; 16-20 ‘Not circumcision, but a new creation’ May I speak, and may you hear God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN On Monday, I spoke to the partner of a friend who has just been made deacon to find out how […]

Why are so many people so bad?   Why are we ourselves inclined to do bad things?  Newspapers may answer that it is because there are not enough police, or it is because people are poor, or because people are badly brought up or have not been taught how to behave.  None of these answers provides […]

On my way back from doing a bit of shopping in Mirfield – it’s amazing how often I manage to go shopping, in spite of being sworn to “simplicity” of life – I said “Excuse me” to a young mother whose little boy was running along a doorstep.  “I’m preaching on Sunday, and it would […]