Sermons by Victor Stock

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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