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  • Love: a Christian reflection

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Lent 2024

    Sunday, 10th March 2024

    God is love.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 9th June 2024

    To love is to be vulnerable.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2022

    Sunday, 2nd January 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2022: God is love, and love is his first gift to us. As the procession of choir and clergy entered the Abbey.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on Ash Wednesday 2024

    Wednesday, 14th February 2024

    ‘What’s love got to do with it?’

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Easter 2022

    Sunday, 1st May 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2022: Love bade me welcome. Someone I knew was recovering from an operation. They were not an easy patient, being.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday before Lent 2019

    Sunday, 3rd February 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday before Lent 2019: 'There are two eyes of the soul, reason and love.' The Feast of Candlemas, which the Church celebrated yesterday, depicts one of.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2023

    Sunday, 5th November 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2023: Many of us don’t love ourselves nearly enough. The greatest love of all, according to George Benson, later Whitney.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2018

    Sunday, 4th November 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2018: Love God; love neighbour. Jesus’ greatest words are foundational to the life of the Christian community. Love God; love neighbour..

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2023

    Sunday, 14th May 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2023: ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.’ ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.’

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2019

    Sunday, 9th June 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2019: 'Time is how you spend your love.' At the beginning of her novel On Beauty, Zadie Smith quotes a line from a poem.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2020

    Sunday, 30th August 2020

    February, I think it was one of those cold, February nights when it goes dark early and London hunkers down over a mess of puddles and umbrellas.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2019

    Sunday, 26th May 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2019: ‘Those who love me will keep my word.’ We all believe that words matter. They are memorable, they build connections,.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2018

    Sunday, 29th April 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2018: There is no greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 8 years ago, at the.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022

    Sunday, 9th January 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022: You are precious in my sight, and honoured, and I love you. I was fortunate to be.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Trinity Sunday 2022

    Sunday, 12th June 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Trinity Sunday 2022: The difficulty about that trinitarian doctrine is the difficulty of comprehending a love that goes so deep. For much of the last.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2022

    Sunday, 30th October 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2022: ‘The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end.’ ‘The steadfast love of the Lord.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2021

    Sunday, 25th July 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2021: The song that Jesus sings is a redemptive song—a song of love and mercy. You will have noticed we.

  • Sermon at a service to mark the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior

    Wednesday, 11th November 2020

    Come Holy Spirit and fill our hearts afresh with the fire of your love.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the feast of Christ the King 2018

    Sunday, 25th November 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on the feast of Christ the King 2018: Divine love and justice has begun to erupt into the world we know. For a number of weeks, the UK has.

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