Sermons

Cathedral Eucharist Last after Trinity

Oscar Wilde’s story The Selfish Giant describes a garden of immense beauty, fecundity and joy.  The giant excludes children his garden. His selfishness is destructive. The world freezes over in a perpetual winter. Yet the children find a way of returning. They bring new life, fruit and… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 27th October 2013

Choral Mattins Last after Trinity

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Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 27th October 2013

Eve of St Simon & St Jude

In the letter to the Ephesians we read that we are no longer strangers and aliens, but ‘citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone’. (Ephesians 2.19, 20) As we… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 27th October 2013

Choral Evensong Trinity 21

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 20th October 2013

Choral Mattins Trinity 21

For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed...Isaiah, chapter 54, verse 10 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I ha… Read more

Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 20th October 2013

Cathedral Eucharist Trinity 21

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Sermon by Robert Cotton on Sunday 20th October 2013

Do we mean love, when we say love?

Do we mean love, when we say love? Samuel Beckett’s work often has a tragicomic edge to it; but in this deceptively simple question, he forces us to consider something complex and intimate. He names our deepest desire and our greatest fear: do we mean love?  He acknowledges our potenti… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 13th October 2013

Harvest Festival Eucharist

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Sermon by Nancy Ford on Sunday 13th October 2013

Choral Mattins Trinity 19

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 6th October 2013

Cathedral Eucharist Trinity 19

If the messages on Twitter over past days are anything to go by, then preachers up and down the land have been angsting over today’s gospel reading; for instance this Tweet, ‘Preaching on faith on Sunday, going to be tricky’. Why should preaching on faith be tricky? Surely it&rs… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 6th October 2013

Choral Evensong Trinity 19

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Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 6th October 2013

St Michael and all Angels - Evensong

The angel of the Lord encamps about them that fear him and delivers them. O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.Psalm 34, verses 7-8. The feast of St Michael and all Angels marks time. It tolls the curfew on departing summer and announces the advent of a… Read more

Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 29th September 2013