Sermons

The Eighth Sunday after Trinity - Evensong

I saw the industrial scene said Lowry and I was affected by it. I wanted to get a certain effect on canvas. I couldn't describe it, but I knew it when I'd got it. I've got a one-track mind, he said, I only deal with poverty. Always with the gloom. And for 40 years, he never tired of paining the ur… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 21st July 2013

Evensong at Loxwood and Alford

I tend to operate quite close to the wire in many things, including packing. I end up throwing at the last minute without recourse to a list or the weather forecast. Consequently, I arrived in a rain swept Derbyshire for a clergy conference with 4 pairs of shoes but no umbrella. Add to that my pro… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 7th July 2013

Eucharist at St Andrew's Farnham

This week it was announced that Girl Guides will no longer pledge their loyalty to God and country. Instead the promise will include a commitment ‘to be true to myself and develop my beliefs’.   Some will argue that this reflects society, making Guides open to all by extendin… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 23rd June 2013

Cathedral Eucharist Trinity 3

The one to whom little is forgiven, loves littleLuke 7.47b If you are wise…you will show yourself as a tank, and not a pipe. For a pipe pours out as fast as it takes in; but a tank waits till it is full before it overflows, and so communicates its surplus without loss to itself. We hav… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 16th June 2013

The First Sunday after Trinity

‘Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today’  ‘Legislation is not primarily for the use of people who have common sense; it is to regulate people who have not got a great deal of common sense.’ That thought, of one of our current leg… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 2nd June 2013

Corpus Christi

Why couldn’t someone else have found it? I opened the box and saw the sacred host… I did not dare to put it back into my pocket. It seemed wrong company for lighter, keys, and dirty handkerchief… I had an outside pocket on the left of my thin jacket – near the heart, I th… Read more

Sermon by on Thursday 30th May 2013

Pentecost 2013

A single word from the Scriptures; a deeply moving experience in the slums of Rio de Janiero; and Pentecost Sunday – the traditional ’birthday of the Church’ and the dedication of this our Cathedral Church. Tucked away in Paul’s second letter to the Church in Corinth there… Read more

Sermon by Christopher Hill on Sunday 19th May 2013

Ascension Day Eucharist

The art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seemed filled with intentto be lost that their lost is no disaster. In her poem 'One Art', Elizabeth Bishop confronts the reality of loss in human life.  Her words speak of the inevitability of loss – of door keys and wasted tim… Read more

Sermon by on Thursday 9th May 2013

Evensong at Selwyn College, Cambridge

Given the clichéd title, you’d expect Love is all you need to be a rom com.  There’s a family wedding in an Italian villa and the sound track is That’s Amore! So far, so predictable; it’s Mamma Mia! minus the Abba songs – it even stars Pierce Brosnan, thou… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 5th May 2013

Evensong Sixth Sunday of Easter

Those who go out weeping bearing the seed for sowing Shall come home with shouts of joy carrying their sheaves. Psalm 126.6 Today is the Sunday commonly known as Rogation Sunday. I have to confess that it is something that has previously passed me by in my Christian life. Maybe it’s b… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 5th May 2013