I don’t’ know what your experience of opening presents on Christmas morning is, but for our family it tended to happen in one of two ways. Sometimes we’d come downstairs and find everyone’s presents arranged in groups, one for each member of the family. But at other times we’d find lots of presents all piledContinue reading “Sermon for the Nativity of the Lord, 2024”
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Sermon for Advent 4, 22nd December 2024
Every year on the late May Bank Holiday, the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham takes place. If you ever visit Walsingham for ‘The National’ as it’s often called, you’ll find that, as well as the thousands who are there to give thanks to God for the life, work and exampleContinue reading “Sermon for Advent 4, 22nd December 2024”
Sermon for Advent 3, 15th December 2024
Today, the third Sunday of Advent, is one of only two Sundays in the Church’s year when we use rose as a liturgical colour, the other being the fourth Sunday of Lent. It’s no coincidence that both of these days are towards the end of these two great penitential seasons of the Church’s year. TheContinue reading “Sermon for Advent 3, 15th December 2024”
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