Sermons

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

Sunday before Lent

The God who said 'let light shine out of darkness' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.   Today's readings are full of light and glory;  we catch glimpses of the intense, illuminating and transformative presence of… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 2nd March 2014

The Transfiguration

+‘So Moses went up the mountain and a cloud covered it.’ Exodus, chapter 24, verse 15. ‘They spoke to him in a pillar of cloud.’ Psalm 99, verse 7. ‘While he was yet speaking, a bright cloud suddenly overshadowed them...but when they raised their eyes they saw Jesus… Read more

Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 2nd March 2014

The Sunday next before Lent

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 2nd March 2014

Cathedral Eucharist 23 Feb 2014

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 23rd February 2014

Mattins 23 Feb 2014

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Sermon by John Mitchell on Sunday 23rd February 2014

Wisdom

‘I, wisdom, was daily God’s delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race’. (Proverbs 8.30-31) + In nomine Patris… One aspect of Christian discipleship, and the ministry of this Cathedral, is the pursuit of wisdo… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 23rd February 2014

Cathedral Eucharist 16 Feb 2014

Last week shop windows were festooned with hearts, pink champagne, chocolates and flowers. Love on Valentine's Day is exploitatively overpriced.  It is marketed to us in pink: it's heart-shaped, sweet and sparkling. Love is more complicated than that. Around us in Chris Gollon's paintings w… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 16th February 2014

Evensong 16 Feb 2014

Texts: ‘Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is within me’: Psalm 7 verse 8. ‘Walk in the way of love as Jesus Christ loved us and gave himself up for us’: The Epistle to the Ephesians, chapter 5, verse 2. I love Anglican cha… Read more

Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 16th February 2014

Fourth Sunday before Lent

‘With you, O Lord, is the well of life and in your light do we see light’ Psalm 36 + In nomine Patris… In the book of Genesis we read that in the very beginning God spoke the words, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light (Genesis 1.3). Light was the first thing… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 9th February 2014

Evensong 9 Feb 2014

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Sermon by Steve Summers on Sunday 9th February 2014

Candlemas 2014

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Sermon by Stuart Beake on Sunday 2nd February 2014