Monthly Archives: June 2014
Feast of St Peter & St Paul, Apostles, Sunday 29 June 2014, St John’s & St Mary’s, morning
Readings Acts 12.1–11, Matthew 16.13–19 Preacher Canon Robert Titley Today we celebrate St Peter. We have heard about his moment of insight with Jesus and his remarkable escape from prison. But we celebrate not just Peter but also Paul, … Continue reading
First Sunday after Trinity, 22 June 2014, St Mary’s, evening
Reading Luke 16.19-31 Preacher Canon Robert Titley What is hell? Hell is a state of being apart from God. And what would that feel like? The Jewish imagination looked to Gehenna, the municipal rubbish tip, sited safely outside the … Continue reading
First Sunday after Trinity, 22 June 2014, St Matthias, morning
Readings Jeremiah 20: 7-13; Romans 6: 1b-11; Matthew 10: 24-39 Preacher Revd David Gardiner To watch this sermon on YouTube, please click here. May the words of my lips, and the meditations of all our hearts, be forever pleasing … Continue reading
Corpus Christi (Thanksgiving for the gift of the Holy Communion), Thursday 19 June 2014, St John the Divine
Readings 1 Corinthians 11.23-26 John 6.51-58 Preacher Canon Robert Titley To listen to this sermon on YouTube, please click here. You will have heard of the so-called Trojan Horse controversy, and the allegations that conservative Muslims have taken over the governing … Continue reading
Trinity Sunday, 15 June 2014, St John the Divine, morning
Reading Matthew 28.16-20 Preacher Revd Neil Summers On Trinity Sunday we try to talk about God. That is very difficult. All our language about God is picture language. The abstract language used by philosophers and theologians is just as … Continue reading
Trinity Sunday, 15 June 2014, St Mary’s, morning
Readings Isaiah 40.12–17, 27–end; Matthew 28.16–20 Preacher Canon Robert Titley There is a new digital channel, ITV Encore, showing the best of ITVs drama output. It launched last week, and so I was able to catch up with a series … Continue reading
Pentecost, Whit Sunday, 8 June 2014, St Mary’s, morning
Readings Acts 2.1–21 John 7.37–39 Preacher Canon Robert Titley For the Baptism of Oliver Ransom Two and a half thousand years ago, Greek philosophers like Empedocles believed that everything that exists comes from four things: earth, air, fire … Continue reading
Sunday after Ascension, 1 June 2014, St Mary, evening
Reading Ephesians 1.15–end Preacher Canon Robert Titley Spring, according to the Second Book of Samuel, is the time when kings go out to battle (2 Samuel 11.1). Spring is also the season when politicians often go out to fight elections … Continue reading
Sunday after Ascension, 1 June 2014, St John the Divine, morning
Readings Acts 1.6-14, John 17.1-11 Preacher Revd Neil Summers Whoever coined the phrase ‘Things ain’t what they used to be’ – the inspiration for a number of songs from the 1940s onwards – never spoke a truer word, because … Continue reading
Sunday after Ascension, 1 June 2014, St Mary, morning
Readings Acts 1.6-14, John 17.1-11 Preacher Canon Robert Titley There are rumours going round. There is talk of doing a Passion play in Richmond in 2015. A certain city in the North West did it in 2006, so why can’t … Continue reading