Sermons

Choral Evensong Trinity 19

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Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 6th 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

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

St Michael and All Angels - Eucharist

It was an imaginative or foolhardy ordinand who chose to play Robbie Williams’ rock ballad, Angels in the college chapel on the feast of St Michael and All Angels. However, his lyrics might say a lot about the hold that angels have on our cultural, social and emotional hinterland. ‘… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 29th September 2013

St Michael and All Angels - Mattins

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Sermon by Nancy Ford on Sunday 29th September 2013

Cathedral Eucharist Trinity 17

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 22nd September 2013

Choral Mattins Trinity 17

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Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 22nd September 2013

The Great Beauty

Paulo Sorrentino’s film The Great Beauty opens with a scene of tourists taking in the breathtaking panoramic views of Rome; before a gut wrenching scream catapults us into a delirious montage of gyrating disco divas, botox-ed socialites and frenetic electro pop.  The eternal city become… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 22nd September 2013

Cathedral Eucharist Trinity 16

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Upon my bed at nightI sought him whom my soul loves;I sought him, but found him not;I called him, but he gave no answer.I will rise now and go about the city,In the streets and in the squares;I will seek him whom my soul lov… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 15th September 2013

What, why and how?

Evensong - Installation Service The big news – history made today.  Guildford Cathedral now has the shortest Dean in the Church of England.  It’s not really news, is it?  It won’t make the papers – it won’t change many lives, the fact that I am short.&… Read more

Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 15th September 2013

St Mary's Thorpe

It is very good indeed to be able to join with you as you celebrate your patronal festival in worship and fellowship; and I bring warm greetings from your Cathedral Church as together we seek to share the love of God in this Diocese. In February 2012, five members of the Russian feminist punk-roc… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 8th September 2013