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  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2017

    Sunday, 5th November 2017

    Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White Sub-Dean and Canon Theologian.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2017

    Sunday, 24th December 2017

    Sermon given by The Reverend Mark Birch, Minor Canon and Sacrist.

  • 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: In this new era of moral challenge, do we, as Christians, have anything to offer? According to the gospel of.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2019

    Sunday, 3rd November 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2019: The dignity of each person is the foundation of a moral vision for society. If one walks around the more.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Advent 2019

    Sunday, 17th November 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Advent 2019: ‘See, the day is coming, burning like an oven.’ ‘On the 8th of the Jewish month of Ab, in late.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2021

    Sunday, 31st October 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2021: As the clocks go back and COP26 begins... I hope you enjoyed your extra hour—the time the clocks go.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2021

    Sunday, 7th November 2021

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2021: ‘Why pray when you can worry?’ ‘Ah yes, why pray when you can worry?’ said my husband as I fretted. ‘Why pray.

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

    Sunday, 14th November 2021

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Advent 2021: We often fail to get angry about the right things, in the right way. The email arrived whilst I was on.

  • 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 Fourth Sunday before Advent 2022

    Sunday, 30th October 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2022: Forgiveness isn't fair. Zacchaeus, in the gospel reading we just heard, was a traitor to his people—not just a.

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

    Sunday, 6th November 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2022: ‘O where shall wisdom be found?’ More years ago than I would care to admit, I was as chorister in a.

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

    Sunday, 13th November 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2022: The unknown warrior's burial somehow represents us all. When the Unknown Warrior was buried here in 1920, he was to commemorate.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Advent 2017

    Sunday, 12th November 2017

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Advent 2017: Remember to live God says of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt, and I will raise up their.

  • 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 at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Advent 2019

    Sunday, 10th November 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Advent 2019: We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come I recently conducted the.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of St Michael and All Angels 2025

    Monday, 29th September 2025

    The angels are at the service of the living God, whom they worship day and night.

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

    Sunday, 26th January 2025

    To speak is holy. To listen is holy.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2023

    Sunday, 5th November 2023

    Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2023: Naming God When I was interviewing potential undergraduate students to study theology, I would quite often ask them ‘How useful is.

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