Advent 3: Bishop Michael Hawkins (Sermon 2)
Do not pronounce judgment. That is the message that you and I, in this congregation, need to hear and to heed. Paul gives us three reasons why we are to suspend our judgment…
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We seem to swing back and forth, from a kind of crazed megalomania, to dreadfully tormented low self-esteem, unable to get it right… But who do we think we are? So often by our thoughts and words and deeds, we proclaim and we pretend that we are the one and only, the Lord…
Read moreNext Before Advent: Bishop Michael Hawkins (Sermon 1)
Is there any echo of that sentiment in your heart and life? I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Who is it, that can satisfy the longings of our hearts? What is it, that can quiet the storm inside?
Read moreNext Before Advent: Father Gethin
Today is sometimes called ‘Stir Up Sunday’, because of the wonderful opening line from our collect: ‘stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people.’ We pray, in other words, for zeal…
Read moreTrinity 25: Bishop Michael Hawkins (Sermon 1)
The second coming of Jesus Christ is meant to fill us not with anxiety, but finally with hope. But we must heed all of Jesus’ warnings, and especially that which is given to us today…
Read moreTrinity 24: Father Gethin
We who were once lost and blind are made the cause of thanks and prayers in our fellow-Christians, who find in our faith, bearing its fruit in love, encouragement for their own spiritual journey.
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We note how often this reversal of the order of contagion occurs in Jesus’ healing miracles. We assume that when a well person comes into contact with a sick person, the contagious disease passes from the sick to the well. But here the opposite occurs.
Read moreTrinity 23: Father Gethin
The twenty-third Sunday after Trinity marks the official finale of this long green season, which has served to guide our passage out of our fallen, worldly, confusions and predicaments, and into the marvellous light and life our resurrected Lord and Saviour…
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Jesus implies that they and we have a dual citizenship, earthly and heavenly. At times, there is no conflict between these, but we must remember that they do at other times come into the strongest of conflict…
Read moreAll Saints: Father Gethin
The feast of All Saints crowns the Christian year with a renewed vision of our heavenly life and calling, tried and purified by our faithful passage through the story of this Trinity season…
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