Sermons

Corpus Christi

Why couldn’t someone else have found it? I opened the box and saw the sacred host… I did not dare to put it back into my pocket. It seemed wrong company for lighter, keys, and dirty handkerchief… I had an outside pocket on the left of my thin jacket – near the heart, I th… Read more

Sermon by on Thursday 30th May 2013

Pentecost 2013

A single word from the Scriptures; a deeply moving experience in the slums of Rio de Janiero; and Pentecost Sunday – the traditional ’birthday of the Church’ and the dedication of this our Cathedral Church. Tucked away in Paul’s second letter to the Church in Corinth there… Read more

Sermon by Christopher Hill on Sunday 19th May 2013

Ascension Day Eucharist

The art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seemed filled with intentto be lost that their lost is no disaster. In her poem 'One Art', Elizabeth Bishop confronts the reality of loss in human life.  Her words speak of the inevitability of loss – of door keys and wasted tim… Read more

Sermon by on Thursday 9th May 2013

Evensong Sixth Sunday of Easter

Those who go out weeping bearing the seed for sowing Shall come home with shouts of joy carrying their sheaves. Psalm 126.6 Today is the Sunday commonly known as Rogation Sunday. I have to confess that it is something that has previously passed me by in my Christian life. Maybe it’s b… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 5th May 2013

Evensong at Selwyn College, Cambridge

Given the clichéd title, you’d expect Love is all you need to be a rom com.  There’s a family wedding in an Italian villa and the sound track is That’s Amore! So far, so predictable; it’s Mamma Mia! minus the Abba songs – it even stars Pierce Brosnan, thou… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 5th May 2013

Mattins Sixth Sunday of Easter

So God created man in his own imageGenesis, chapter 1, verse 27 Glorious things of thee are spoken, o city of God;Psalm 87, verse 3 Your life is hid with Christ in GodColossians, chapter 3, verse 3 The Bible is a storybook with pictures, a narrative with illustrations. My three texts offer… Read more

Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 5th May 2013

The Fifth Sunday of Easter

It is very instructive to spend a little time observing children playing. It is extremely good for adults: the sheer joyfulness, imagination and exuberance of play. Would that many adults could recapture that playfulness in life and faith: but we ‘grown ups’ become experienced in the w… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 28th April 2013

Feast of St George, martyr, patron of England

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I wonder what colours you most associate with St George’s Day. Red, white and… green? Red for the blood of the martyr, white for the resurrection of Christ and the triumph George now shares in, and green…… Read more

Sermon by on Tuesday 23rd April 2013

Second Sunday of Easter

You had to be there. It was amazing. No really, I can’t describe it. You had to be there. We’ve all joined the conversation 30 seconds after the funniest anecdote. Or got stuck in traffic and missed the gig; or spent ages trying to book tickets for the Olympics only for the website to… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 7th April 2013

Easter Day Festal Evensong

The Risen Christ came and stood among his disciples and said, ‘Peace be with you’. Then were they glad when they saw the Lord. Alleluia. † In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. In my last church the principal entrance and exit was a great no… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 31st March 2013

Good Friday Three Hours

Let me go there, he said. I want to begin this time of reflection with a word about Nic Fiddian-Green’s sculpture, Christ Rests. Throughout Lent we have perhaps been taken aback by the scale of this creative work, the starkness of the thorns and the curl of the hair; perhaps we have been d… Read more

Sermon by on Friday 29th March 2013

Good Friday Addresses

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT IN THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST JOHN Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing… Read more

Sermon by on Friday 29th March 2013