Sunday before Lent - Choral Eucharist
Ever since I was a boy, I have always been an avid reader of detective fiction, and, in common with many of my friends at school, Sherlock Holmes was one of my literary heroes
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Second Sunday before Lent - Choral Eucharist
I’m not sure that the pulpit is the place for confessions, but I have one, so here goes: when I was, I think, seven years old, I borrowed a book from the small selection available in the corner of the Sunday School I attended
View sermonCandlemas - Choral Eucharist
On the back wall of the Welsh Chapel in the Borough, not far from the Cathedral, there’s a fantastic plaque which says ‘Commit no Nuisance’. It’s like those rather forbidding notices that we sometimes see that say loudly and boldly, ‘No loitering’. But, you know, not all loitering is bad or creates nuisance
View sermonThird Sunday of Epiphany - Choral Eucharist
We’ve learnt so many things over these last almost ten months of lockdown and restrictions. I’ve learnt more than how to organise a meeting on Zoom, you may have learnt how to make bread, or knit or work your way through Netflix
View sermonSecond Sunday after Christmas - Choral Eucharist
Happy New Year! I don’t know whether you bothered to see in the New Year the other day. No fireworks to lure you outside, no crowds to become part of, no Auld Lang Syne to sing
View sermonSecond Sunday after Christmas - Choral Evensong
There have been so many casualties during this pandemic, individual and community – some deeply significant and others, well, less significant
View sermonThird Sunday of Advent - Choral Eucharist
Who would have imagined at the beginning of the year that so many of our social encounters and conversations would begin with ‘You’re muted’
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