The Third Sunday of Advent
What the recipe needs is not more sugar, but to have followed the instructions in the first place.
The Second Sunday of Advent
So when we look at the baby in the manger we can marvel at God’s plan.
The First Sunday of Advent
We do not know what the future holds, but we do know who holds the future.
The Second Sunday before Advent
Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable
Remembrance Sunday
Every Remembrance observance gets meaning and significance from this remembrance. And every two-minute silence is charged with our repentance, our prostration in sorrow.
The Last Sunday after Trinity
Conversion isn’t a momentary experience, begun and ended at our baptism, started and completed in one life-changing prayer or moment of spiritual epiphany.
The 21st Sunday after Trinity
So be kind to yourself; the human mind is wired to think we are the centre of the universe, and it is oh-so-easy to misinterpret the data all around us in order to reach that conclusion. Thanks be to God, however, that we are not the centre of the Universe.
Harvest Festival 2024
As we gather today to celebrate the good things of God’s green earth, Jesus calls to set us free from anxiety so that we are free to worry about justice.
Dedication Festival
Francis always held a reverence for church buildings. Being places where the saving mystery of Christ death and resurrection was celebrated, they were to be kept clean. He told his brothers to sweep a church if they found it to be neglected and unkempt; both the scriptures and the sacrament were to be carefully reverenced; the sanctuary was to be honoured.
Michael and All Angels
There are angels all about us, messengers beyond our mortal ken, ascending and descending, as busy and invisible and implausibly constructed in the divine plan as muons and quarks are in the material realm of this creation, as the silent owls are wonders in the night-time world of nature
The Seventeenth Sunday of Trinity
A sign to say this church is where all can come for safety; where all are not merely welcome, but vitally part of our common life, our common ministry, a nurturing church where we serve one another that we might serve Christ.
The Sixteenth Sunday of Trinity
Take up your cross and follow me, he asks us, and the journey we are invited on is a journey to life --not to death, but to life. You need both your hands to carry this journey with me, he teaches us.
The Institution and Induction of the Reverend Devin Shepard McLachlan
The primary call to Christian ministers, and all Christian people, is to be formed in the likeness of Christ-crucified. This entails a daily living under the shadow of the cross, which, for all its sweet blessings, is inescapably rough and biting too. Christ and his cross provoke us as much as they console us.
The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
We know it is costly to enter into, tempting to avoid yet another account of what is being suffered in so many parts of the world; tempting to enlist the triumph within Christ’s suffering and so avoid ‘walking in another’s moccasins’.
The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
Jesus’s mission, then, was to bring the love of God to the poor, the sick, the maimed, the downtrodden. To reassure the orphan and the widow, the excluded and the vulnerable, that no one was outside God’s love, and that the laws of religion were a human construct obscuring God in favour of maintaining the institution.
The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
How many indeed have received Holy Communion week in and week out for the past year and a half, one of the most difficult periods this parish has gone through? A great many of you. And after eating and drinking, you prayed together Sunday by Sunday: ‘Almighty God, we thank you feeding us with the body and blood of your Son Jesus Christ. Through him, we offer you our souls and bodies to be a living sacrifice. Send us out in the power of your Spirit to live and work to your praise and glory.’
The Twelth Sunday after Trinity
In 2007, when I was just retired and luxuriously church-shopping, I walked into St. Benet’s and saw our very rare if not unique central window: was there ever a pull, a message for someone just retired?
The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity
So this bread, this simple nourishing meal, this transformation of grain and yeast, this proved and risen and baked food – this is more than a metaphor. The bread of the Eucharist is more than bread, for it conveys Jesus.
Patronal Festival The Feast of St Benedict
When I joined St Bene’t’s, a priest friend came up to me and asked what it was like to be responsible for the most prayed for congregation in England.