Sermons

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