Sermons

Mothering Sunday 2014

Adam gets into the black cab; his Archdeacon is left uncharacteristically on the pavement. A baby... How adorable! Coos Jill the Area Dean. What a heavenly child; I love children. Intones Jerry, the Diocesan Secretary, flatly. May I touch her? Adorable. Heavenly child.   Just one of t… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 30th March 2014

Mothers' Union Lady Day 2014

The Mother’s Union is a force to be reckoned with.  I don’t need to tell you all that, but it may still be news to some. In most of the Anglican world the Mothers’ Union is THE organisation which gets things done.  When governmental agencies, aid agencies and others ar… Read more

Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Monday 24th March 2014

Evensong - 23 March 2014

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Sermon by John Mitchell on Sunday 23rd March 2014

Third Sunday of Lent 2014

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Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 23rd March 2014

Mattins 23 March 2014

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 23rd March 2014

O pray for the peace of Jerusalem

Some years ago now, at the end of summer, a group of people climbed to the Worcestershire Beacon in the Malvern Hills. It was almost at the time of year of the great autumn festivals reflected in the Psalms – the ‘hag’ or pilgrimage festival, known in Arabic as the haj. A new agr… Read more

Sermon by Katherine Dienes-Williams on Sunday 16th March 2014

Mattins 16 March 2014

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Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 16th March 2014

Cathedral Eucharist 16 March 2014

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Sermon by Nancy Ford on Sunday 16th March 2014

Evensong 9 Mar 2014

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Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 9th March 2014

The First Sunday of Lent 2014

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 9th March 2014

St Martha's 9 Mar 2014

Yes, I'm giving him up. The moving final words of Coetzee's novel "Disgrace".  David Lurie's academic and teaching career ended in disgrace following an impulsive affair with a student.  He refuses to repent publicly; instead he retreats to his daughter's smallholding.  He hopes pe… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 9th March 2014

Ash Wednesday 2014

+ In nomine Patris… Shortly we will be invited to receive on our heads the sign of the cross marked out in ash. Those ashes will connect us to our creation, our mortality, and will express the limitations of our neuroses, anxieties and efforts when they are evacuated of God’s grace.… Read more

Sermon by on Wednesday 5th March 2014