Sermons

Bishop of Guildford's Easter Eve Baptism and Confirmation Sermon 2015: "Till death us unite"

Monday, May 25th 1992: I’ll never forget that date: because that was the morning when I was woken up in the early hours by the cries of a lady dying in the nursing home next door. As I got up to dress, my wife stirred, and then started making strange noises of her own. She was heavily pregna… Read more

Sermon by Andrew Watson on Saturday 4th April 2015

Good Friday The Three Hours - Homily

HOMILY AT THE GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY Hebrews 10.16-25; John 18.1-19.42 God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The proclamation of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ which we have just heard drives to the heart of the mystery of the Christian faith: glory, gra… Read more

Sermon by on Friday 3rd April 2015

Good Friday The Three Hours - Address One

GOOD FRIDAY 2015 The Cross: Glory, grace & truth in the Letter to the Colossians & Gospel of St John OPENING PRAYER O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, set your passion, cross and death between your judgement and our souls, now and in the hour of our death. Grant mercy and… Read more

Sermon by on Friday 3rd April 2015

Good Friday The Three Hours - Address Three

GOOD FRIDAY 2015 The Cross: Glory, grace & truth in the Letter to the Colossians & Gospel of St John ADDRESS THREE The cross is an icon of human suffering and divine solidarity with it. The human suffering of the cross is hard to relate to the notion that the cross is the source of salv… Read more

Sermon by on Friday 3rd April 2015

Good Friday The Three Hours Address Two

GOOD FRIDAY 2015 The Cross: Glory, grace & truth in the Letter to the Colossians & Gospel of St John ADDRESS TWO The Cross is the foundation of the Christian life in baptism, eucharist, worship and all that flows from it, for example, in pursuit of the Common Good, service of neighbour… Read more

Sermon by on Friday 3rd April 2015

Maundy Thursday Eucharist - Bishop Ian

Not so much a sermon, more a meditation on the nature of the Eucharist. I came across a definition the other day of what it means to be a Christian.  It was this: Christians are people related to God in the Christ who is their new and Spirit-filled life, their forgiveness and health, the one… Read more

Sermon by Ian Brackley on Thursday 2nd April 2015

Bishop of Guildford Maundy Thursday Sermon: "Playing the Right Game"

I thought I’d won, but in fact I’d lost. The truth is that I was simply playing the wrong game. The context was One World Week, back in the early 1980s, when I was working as a caretaker and youth worker in a church in Islington. A local activist had invited a dozen of us to supper, a… Read more

Sermon by Andrew Watson on Thursday 2nd April 2015

Palm Sunday Evensong

A very fruitful vine covered the south wall of my old Rectory and each year in September and October it produced increasing numbers of bunches of sweet red grapes which provided not only gifts for all kinds of people who called in but was also the dessert for many a healthy meal. In this diocese w… Read more

Sermon by Mavis Wilson on Sunday 29th March 2015

Choral Evensong - 22 March 2015

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 22nd March 2015

Cathedral Eucharist - 22 March 2015

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Sermon by Stuart Beake on Sunday 22nd March 2015

St Michael's, Llandaff

Laura? Yes, dear. Whatever your dream was, it wasn't a very happy one, was it? No. So begin the closing moments of Brief Encounter. It evokes an era which feels remote to us now. The defined gender roles, social conventions, style of dress and clipped RP accents become the stuff of parody. Yet… Read more

Sermon by on Tuesday 17th March 2015

Choral Mattins - 15 March 2015

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Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 15th March 2015