Sermons in 2011

Second Sunday of Epiphany 2011

Preached on 16th Jan 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and sayeth, “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world”’&… Read more

Evensong - 23 Jan 2011

Preached on 23rd Jan 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up’ – cool, patrician, distant, passionless – w… Read more

Wisdom

Preached on 30th Jan 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. He that is void of wisdom despiseth… Read more

Mattins - 6 Feb 2011

Preached on 6th Feb 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, “Look on us”’. (The fourth verse of the third chapter of the Acts o… Read more

Eucharist - 20 Feb 2011

Preached on 20th Feb 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘You have learned that they were told “Love your neighbour and hate your enemy”, but what I tell you is this: love your enemies an… Read more

Faith in Community

Preached on 4th Mar 2011 by Bishop John Gladwin.

There is quite a lot of romantic nonsense talked about when the word ‘community’ is used.  The reality is building peaceful, just,… Read more

Oxford University Lady Day Sermon

Preached on 6th Mar 2011 by Victor Stock.

Both arresting and urgent, thought-provoking and contemplative, sculpture in the current exhibition at the Royal Academy emerges from the darkening… Read more

Faith in Education

Preached on 11th Mar 2011 by Archbishop Vincent Nichols.

Thank you for the invitation to offer this talk, this evening, on the theme of Faith in Education. I look forward to our engagement and, I trust, ex… Read more

Faith in the Arts

Preached on 18th Mar 2011 by Sir Mark Jones.

I was asked to talk about ‘Faith in the Arts’, but although religious belief has played a large part in the creation of works of art it… Read more

Evensong - 20 March 2011

Preached on 20th Mar 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘Would anyone of you think of building a tower without first sitting down and calculating the cost to see whether you could afford to finish i… Read more

Eucharist - 27 March 2011

Preached on 27th Mar 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘”I know that Messiah, that is Christ, is coming.  When he comes he will tell us everything”.  Jesus said, “I am h… Read more

Easter Vigil 2011

Preached on 23rd Apr 2011 by Victor Stock.

Brian Cox, rock star, scientist, CERN expert, Fellow of the Royal Society, holder of a Chair in Particle Physics at Manchester University, YouTube p… Read more

Baptism and Launch of the Patrons

Preached on 8th May 2011 by Victor Stock.

Fifty years ago, to everyone’s amazement, and I use the words advisedly, Guildford Cathedral was consecrated in the presence of HMQ.  As… Read more

Consecration of the Golden Jubilee Altar

Preached on 17th May 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘Then Jesus entered the Temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the Temple, and he overturned the table of the money-changers… Read more

The Worshipful Company of Carpenters

Preached on 26th May 2011 by Victor Stock.

Guildford Cathedral is celebrating its Golden Jubilee – fifty years since the Consecration on 17 May in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.… Read more

Mattins - 29 May 2011

Preached on 29th May 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘Then, we which are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be w… Read more

Ascension Day 2011

Preached on 2nd Jun 2011 by Victor Stock.

The conversion of Holland was mainly the work of St Willibrord, Bishop of Utrecht from 695-739, who at one stage worked with our own St Boniface, th… Read more

QRSRA 350th Anniversary

Preached on 5th Jun 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had vanished, and there was no longer any sea’. … Read more

Patronal Festival - Pentecost 2011

Preached on 12th Jun 2011 by Victor Stock.

Except on Good Friday, when no priest presides over the Eucharist, Holy Communion has been celebrated in this Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit ev… Read more

Trinity Sunday 2011

Preached on 19th Jun 2011 by Victor Stock.

The second verse of the first chapter of the letter of Paul to the Romans: ‘This Gospel God announced beforehand in sacred Scriptures through… Read more

Third Sunday after Trinity

Preached on 10th Jul 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘When he came in sight of the city, he wept over it and said, “If only you’d known on this great day the way that leads to peace&r… Read more

Cathedral Eucharist - 17 July 2011

Preached on 17th Jul 2011 by Victor Stock.

Gardening books and cookery books have in common the deceitful photograph, the perfectly, elegantly and attractively coloured cake, or the properly… Read more

St Mary Magdalene

Preached on 24th Jul 2011 by Victor Stock.

There should be some bits of Mary Magdalene in the current Reliquary Exhibition at the British Museum - there is enough of her to go round, parts of… Read more

Evensong - 14 Aug 2011

Preached on 14th Aug 2011 by Victor Stock.

Tomorrow is the Feast of the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or in Russian and Greek Orthodoxy, the Dormition, or in the Roman Catholic C… Read more

Cathedral Eucharist - 11 Sept 2011

Preached on 11th Sep 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘”So angry was the master that he condemned the man to torture and that he should pay the debt in full”.  That is how my heav… Read more

Cathedral Eucharist - 2 Oct 2011

Preached on 2nd Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.

Ooh, there were some moments on the Friends’ pilgrimage to Finland and Russia!  From not being able to go on a long boat journey from the… Read more

Gospel in the Gallery - Lecture 1

Preached on 6th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.

The British Museum I suppose if you say ‘Bible’ to people they think, if they think at all about the Old Testament, of Genesis, stories… Read more

Gospel in the Gallery - Lecture 2

Preached on 13th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.

The Victoria and Albert Museum ‘The good news of the Gospel is that God is as He is in Jesus and therefore we have hope’.  When we… Read more

Volunteers Sunday 2011

Preached on 16th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.

Tonight’s second lesson comes from the early ‘90s of the Common Era, the end of the first century, and the key themes of the first three… Read more

Gospel in the Gallery - Lecture 3

Preached on 20th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.

The National Gallery opened its doors for the public for the first time on 10 May 1824.  The story of its foundation is one of enlightened mind… Read more

Gospel in the Gallery - Lecture 4

Preached on 27th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.

The Wallace Collection Richard Wallace, Baronet, was born in 1818, an art collector known in his youth as Richard Jackson, inherited in 1870 from h… Read more

All Saints Sunday

Preached on 30th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘After this I looked and saw a vast throng, which no-one could count, from every nation, of all tribes, peoples and languages, standing in fro… Read more

Cathedral Eucharist - 6 Nov 2011

Preached on 6th Nov 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hop… Read more

Remembrance Sunday 2011

Preached on 13th Nov 2011 by Chris Luckraft.

On 7th November 1919, King George V dedicated the 11th November as a day of remembrance of those members of the armed forces killed during the First… Read more

Advent Sunday 2011

Preached on 27th Nov 2011 by Victor Stock.

The Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, leads up to and away from the Babylonian Exile, with the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC, then the return of those… Read more

Evensong - 4 Dec 2011

Preached on 4th Dec 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace by your faith in Him until by the power of the Holy Spirit you overflow with hope’.… Read more

John Keble Church 75th Anniversary

Preached on 11th Dec 2011 by Victor Stock.

‘When Jesus entered Jerusalem the whole city was in turmoil, asking, “Who is this?”’  They asked that then and they wer… Read more

Christmas Day 2011

Preached on 25th Dec 2011 by Victor Stock.

On 14 December there appears in the calendar a little saint.  He was, in fact, physically a small man, St John of the Cross, the 16th century S… Read more