Sermons

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

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

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

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

The Tenth Sunday after Trinity

For those of you who know the musical “Joseph”, you’ll recollect that it ends with the following reprise: May I return to the beginningThe light is dimming, and the dream is tooThe world and I, we are still waitingStill hesitating, any dream will do. Give me my coloured coat,My… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 4th August 2013

The Ninth Sunday after Trinity

I’ve got a crush on the Archbishop of Canterbury. That’s not a personal confession, much as I admire him; rather it is the by-line of an op ed piece by Marina Hyde in yesterday’s Guardian. It might sound like a surprising expression of admiration from a journalist; but it’… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 28th July 2013

The Eighth Sunday after Trinity

Sisters, sisters,There were never such devoted sisters,Never had to have a chaperone, no sir,I’m there to keep my eye on her.Caring, sharingEvery little thing that we are wearing.When a certain gentleman arrived from RomeShe wore the dress, and I stayed home.All kinds of weather, we stick… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 21st July 2013