Sermons in 2010

Easter Vigil 2010

Preached on 3rd Apr 2010 by Victor Stock.

When were you last afraid of something?  I don’t mean in a jokey kind of way (Be very afraid!) - I mean scared.  Not being able to a… Read more

Eucharist - Third Sunday of Easter

Preached on 18th Apr 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘Then the Disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord”’ The twenty-first Chapter of John is a curious collecti… Read more

St Dunstan's Patronal Festival

Preached on 22nd May 2010 by Victor Stock.

The Church of England is ‘a magnificent collision of traditions and styles’.  ‘The Church looks traditionally neo-Gothic on t… Read more

Pentecost 2010

Preached on 23rd May 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘I have yet many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now’.  Thus the discourse on the Spirit in the sixteenth chapter of… Read more

Restoration Day

Preached on 30th May 2010 by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.

On 29 May 1669, the mayor and aldermen of Cambridge attended divine service in their parish church, and then processed solemnly in their scarlet gow… Read more

Eucharist - First Sunday after Trinity

Preached on 6th Jun 2010 by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin; for I did not receive it from a human so… Read more

Corpus Christi 2010

Preached on 6th Jun 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘My flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed.  He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him’… Read more

Queens Royal Surrey Regiment Association

Preached on 6th Jun 2010 by Victor Stock.

In 1940 British Forces and some French troops withdrew to the town, sand dunes and beaches to the east of Malo-les-bains, the pleasure resort in the… Read more

Trinity Sunday

Preached on 6th Jun 2010 by Angela Weaver.

I can remember my mother blowing bubbles with her hands, using soap when I was having a bath as a small child. I remember doing the same with my own… Read more

Evensong - 27 June 2010

Preached on 27th Jun 2010 by Victor Stock.

Dr Nicholas Thistlethwaite, the Sub Dean and Precentor, thinks we shouldn’t have sermons at Evensong and the Dean thinks we should have Evenso… Read more

Evensong - 4 July 2010

Preached on 4th Jul 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘Take nothing for the journey’ – words from the sixth chapter of Mark’s Gospel.  ‘Take nothing for the journey&rs… Read more

Eucharist - 25 July 2010

Preached on 25th Jul 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘The mother of Zebedee’s sons then came before him with her sons.  She bowed low and begged a favour.  “What is it you w… Read more

Appointment of a Bishop

Preached on 1st Aug 2010 by Victor Stock.

Those of you who know your Trollope will be aware that Bishops were appointed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the Whig or Tory a… Read more

Evensong - 8 August 2010

Preached on 8th Aug 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘Our conscience assures us that in our dealings with our fellows, and above all in our dealings with you, our conduct has been governed by a d… Read more

Faith

Preached on 8th Aug 2010 by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.  (Hebrews 11:1) Children love a story.  Whether it’s… Read more

The Blessed Virgin Mary

Preached on 15th Aug 2010 by Victor Stock.

The glory of Mary is simple, because she said yes, we can.  ‘I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall exult in my God.  He… Read more

Rodney Shires Thanksgiving

Preached on 18th Aug 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth’.  The Hebrew prophets never imagined that one day things might take a turn for the bette… Read more

Eucharist - 5 Sept 2010

Preached on 5th Sep 2010 by Victor Stock.

The New Testament is a fascinating and complex set of writings covering a period of about fifty years, not much more time than has elapsed between t… Read more

Farewell Eucharist for Canon Frost

Preached on 26th Sep 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘The worldly are more astute than the other-worldly in dealing with their own kind’   Not an encouraging text with which to wi… Read more

Patrons of Lichfield Cathedral

Preached on 1st Oct 2010 by Victor Stock.

The last time I spoke at a dinner was two weeks’ ago for the Bishops of the Church of England, the Church of Ireland, the Church in Wales and… Read more

Mattins - 3 Oct 2010

Preached on 3rd Oct 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘When a crowd of many thousands had gathered, packed so close that they were treading on one another, he began to speak, first to his disciple… Read more

Installation of Virgers

Preached on 10th Oct 2010 by Victor Stock.

‘Benedictus Dominus’ - words from Psalm 144: ‘Lord, what is man that Thou hast such respect unto him, or the Son of Man that Thou… Read more

Eucharist - 31 Oct 2010

Preached on 31st Oct 2010 by Victor Stock.

As the over-familiar, full decorated, vibrantly coloured saints of the Counter-Reformation on display, above, surrounding and indeed within the alta… Read more

Third Sunday Before Advent

Preached on 7th Nov 2010 by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.

Few would deny that the Reformation of the sixteenth century transformed the intellectual life of Europe.  It discarded the shackles of the med… Read more

Service of Remembrance 2010

Preached on 14th Nov 2010 by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.

‘It is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.’  (John 11:50) In March 1943, El… Read more

Christ the King 2010

Preached on 21st Nov 2010 by Victor Stock.

Four years’ ago Her Majesty the Queen (some of you will remember) came to Guildford Cathedral for the Royal Maundy.  About a month before… Read more

Christmas Day 2010

Preached on 25th Dec 2010 by Victor Stock.

The Middle East is a blood-stained place and journeys there are hard.  As Jonathan Frost discovered, just before his Consecration as a Bishop,… Read more