• Homily for Midnight Mass

    We’ve made it. We’ve got here. We’ve made the journey of Advent. We’ve arrived with Mary and Joseph. Here we are at midnight in the bright stable of our church, […]

  • Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent

    ‘Christ could be born in Bethlehem a thousand times – but all in vain until he is born in me.’ So said a German mystic, Angelus Silesius. Here we are […]

  • Homily for Penitential Service

    This is the time of year we’re focussed on Christ’s coming. God has come close to us. In a quite new way, God has become God-with-us, Emmanuel. He has entered […]

  • Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent

    In the middle of today’s readings, there’s a two-word phrase. It passes so quickly we can miss it altogether. It came in the second reading. It’s from St Paul. It’s […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

    ‘O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your Son…’ So begins today’s Opening Prayer or Collect.

  • Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent

    ‘And what I say to you, I say to all: Stay awake!’ Today Advent begins. It begins with a shout, with a cry – with Christ crying out: ‘Stay awake!’ […]

  • Sermon for Remembrance Sunday

    Today is Remembrance Sunday. It falls, as we are all vividly aware, during the centenary of the First World War,. This takes our memories in a certain direction. That war […]

  • All Souls Day

    Why has God given us faith? Certainly, we may feel it’s wobbly at times. But let’s forget that for a moment. We do have faith. And faith is a gift […]

     

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