Holy Saturday: Father Gethin
All things here, in this silent hour, are reduced to their simplest, and their most profound, for all things are here described only by hope and faith and charity…
Read moreGood Friday: Father Gethin
Come and see, see how gracious is His love for us, and see too, how willful and wretched is our disobedience, our selfish disinterest in love; and be changed by the vision. Be loved.
Read moreMaundy Thursday: Father Gethin
“This is my body, given, this is my blood shed, for you.” In this way He fulfills the Father’s goodness, and reveals the meaning of His Passion: it is not merely a murderous scheme, perpetrated upon the innocent, patiently suffered; it is His free gift of himself, precisely in spite of the violence, because of His love for us.
Read morePassion Sunday: Bishop Michael Hawkins
You are free children, not bound servants. In Jesus Christ, God has redeemed you from slavery and adopted you as his children. This is the Gospel of the Incarnation, Death and Resurrection of the Son of God…
Read moreLent 4: Bishop Michael Hawkins
There is in all and each of us a hunger and a thirst, which nothing in this world can satisfy. The things of this world will either disappoint or addict us.
Read moreLent 3: Bishop Michael Hawkins
We are confronted this morning by another hard saying of our Lord: Whoever is not with me is against me. Jesus equates mere tolerance of himself, and his work and mission, as open opposition. Neutrality is effective opposition…
Read moreLent 4: Father Gethin
Jesus is indeed healer, and teacher, and the very image of heaven, but He is more than these: He is truly, utterly, and profoundly, with us. He is the teacher who also has pity and compassion, and who provides for the life of His disciples out of His own substance.
Read moreLent 2: Bishop Michael Hawkins
We live in a time and place which winks at sexual sins on the false pretense of Christian charity… Someone once suggested that the State has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, and we have come now to presume, that neither does the Church have any business in the bedrooms of her faithful…
Read moreLent 3: Father Gethin
This Sunday, as we witness the power of our Saviour over the demons, as we watch the ‘stronger man’ come and proclaim the Kingdom of God with a divine might and authority, our sense of conviction, our Christian calling to ‘draw near to God,’ also receives a new and clearer focus.
Read moreLent 1: Bishop Michael Hawkins
The story of Jesus’ temptation is the story of power unexercised. It is hard for us to understand, because we live so much in a day when “just because I can” is justification for any action at all.
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