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• Sermon given at Midnight Mass, Christmas 2019

  Tuesday, 24th December 2019

  It is my first Christmas in the Abbey, I have been here a month. Kind people keep asking me if I am looking forward to my first Christmas here.

  Midnight Mass

• Sermon on The Feast of the Presentation of Christ 2020

  Sunday, 2nd February 2020

  Vicars live in Vicarages, Rectors live in Rectories and Deans live in Deaneries. This is important; it assures us we've put them in their place.

  Candlemas

• Reflection: Christmas Day

  Monday, 1st January 0001

  Watch or read the reflection from Christmas Day, Peace on earth

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Lent 2025

  Sunday, 16th February 2025

  Blessed are you who are poor.

• Advent II Reflection: God who wants to be known

  Sunday, 8th December 2024

  "God wants to be known in history" says The Reverend Canon Mark Birch, as he reflects on the Luke's gospel for the Second Sunday of Advent.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Lent 2025

  Sunday, 23rd March 2025

  Unless you repent...

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Advent 2021

  Sunday, 5th December 2021

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Advent 2021: Memory and hope belong together. St Luke has quite a number of accolades to his name in popular tradition. First, of.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Sunday next before Lent 2025

  Sunday, 2nd March 2025

  We must live it all, offer it all, pray it all.

• A Reflection for the First Sunday of Christmas: God who is being revealed to us

  Sunday, 29th December 2024

  Ponder the meaning of young Jesus' teaching in the temple with The Reverend Amanda Bourne in a reflection for the First Sunday of Christmas.

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Trinity 2016

  Sunday, 5th June 2016

  Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon Treasurer and Almoner.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Annunciation of Our Lord 2024

  Monday, 8th April 2024

  If we can but bear it, we will see that all around are the fields of paradise.

• Sermon Given at Matins on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2017

  Sunday, 25th June 2017

  Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon in Residence.

• Sermon at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2019

  Sunday, 7th April 2019

  Sermon at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2019: Today is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end Today we mark the beginning of Passiontide and it.

• Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Easter 2019

  Sunday, 28th April 2019

  Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Easter 2019: ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us?’ St. Luke approaches the end of his gospel with.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2024

  Sunday, 1st December 2024

  'Year passes year, silently; Christ’s coming is ever nearer.'

• Third Sunday of Lent

  Sunday, 23rd March 2025

  The Reverend Catherine Williams discovers the meaning of Jesus' parable of the fig tree, and how we grow in faith through our repentance. We welcome Catherine Williams - an Anglican priest, spiritual director, and writer - as a guest contributor to our reflections throughout this season.

• Sermon Christmas Day 2023

  Monday, 25th December 2023

  Sermon Christmas Day 2023: In the beginning was the Word. Now, I need some room, some leeway. this morning. Perhaps, and please, you might be patient? I do know it is Christmas.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Baptism of Christ 2025

  Sunday, 12th January 2025

  In the font we learn that water is thicker than blood.

• Sermon given at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2019

  Sunday, 14th April 2019

  Sermon given at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2019: Above all, this coming week is all about grace. Today is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week, the week in which we.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2024

  Thursday, 9th May 2024

  ‘While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.’