Sermons

Ash Wednesday | Wedensday 18 Fenruary 2026

Here we are at another Ash Wednesday. I’m always struck by the fact that the sorts of churches I grew up in weren’t accustomed to making much of the day. The season of Lent was quietly acknowledged, but on Ash Wednesday, whilst there might be a quiet service of prayer, the imposition o… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Wednesday 18th February 2026

Choral Evensong | 15 February 2026

Choral Evensong 15th February 2026 (1 before Lent) This evening’s first reading is a wonderfully pictorial account from the life of one of the greatest figures in the Jewish Scriptures. Elijah knows that his moments are numbered, and so does Elisha. They play out a merry dance of ‘o… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 15th February 2026

Cathedral Eucharist | 15 February 2026

Sunday next before Lent – Cathedral 15 Feb 2026 There was certainly a time when being a paper boy or paper girl — especially on Sundays — was a relatively easy task. A few neatly folded newspapers tucked under the arm and off you went, complete with push bike naturally......… Read more

Sermon by Paul Thompson on Sunday 15th February 2026

Conversion of Paul | Sunday 25 January 2026

Church history is full of conversions, where an individual’s life takes a particular course before arriving at a place where the person course comes to believe and starts to live very differently. From the first apostles to Nicodemus, from Lydia to Cornelius, from Augustine to Ignatius Loyol… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 25th January 2026

Epiphany | 6 January 2026

I suspect that, like me, you have seen many Christmas cards depicting the magi, the wise men of this evening’s gospel reading. Some cards are more spiritual than others, of course… I once saw a card with a picture on the front of two wise men mounted on their camels, with the third… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Tuesday 6th January 2026

Ephesians 1:3–14, St John 1:1–18

Once upon a time when I was at school, now I know you’re looking at me and thinking that was clearly a very long time ago now! I well remember a boy in my year who lived in a local foster home. In truth I have always been in awe and admiration for adults who look after these youngsters at su… Read more

Sermon by Paul Thompson on Sunday 4th January 2026

2nd Sunday of Advent

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I was in a lift in a London office block last week. You know the rules. Face forward. Watch the numbers. Absolutely no conversation. The man next to me hadn't read the memo. "Going to the meeting?" he a… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Sunday 7th December 2025

Christ the King

Homily: “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” (Luke 23:42) During the dark days of the Blitz in the 1940s, London was under constant threat of bombing. When it was suggested that Queen Elizabeth and her two daughters—Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret—shou… Read more

Sermon by Paul Thompson on Sunday 23rd November 2025

All Souls Requiem Eucharist

On this solemn feast of All Souls, we gather as the Church Militant to pray for those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith. We stand at the threshold between this world and the next, united in the great mystery of the Communion of Saints, where the veil between heaven and earth gr… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Sunday 2nd November 2025

4th Sunday before Advent | 2 November 2025

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen In 2018, Dan Price, CEO of a Seattle company, cut his million-dollar salary to raise his workers' minimum wage to $70,000 a year. What led to that decision? A lawsuit from his brother forced Price to confront something… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Sunday 2nd November 2025

All Saints 1 November 2025

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of The Holy Spirit. Amen. In the year 651, the great missionary bishop Aidan lay dying on the island of Lindisfarne. This Irish monk, who had brought the Gospel to Northumbria and established a monastery that would light the lamp of faith across nort… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Saturday 1st November 2025

Last Sunday after Trinity – Lk 18: 9-14

26 October 2025 – Last Sunday after Trinity – Lk 18: 9-14 Today’s gospel reading brings us one of Jesus’ most powerful parables — a simple story with a deep message that speaks directly to every human heart. Jesus tells us of two men who go up to the temple to p… Read more

Sermon by Paul Thompson on Sunday 26th October 2025