Just over five weeks ago we began our journey through Lent and now, on Palm Sunday, we come to the final stretch of the journey as we enter the season of Passiontide and the start of Holy Week. As the name Passiontide suggests, this is the time of the Church’s year when our thoughts turnContinue reading “Sermon for Palm Sunday Year B, 24th March 2024”
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Sermon for Lent 4 (Mothering Sunday) 10th March 2024
Secular culture tells us that today is Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is an American day of thanksgiving for mothers that dates back a little over 100 years, to the early years of the 20th Century. The Church, on the other hand, says that today, the 4th Sunday of Lent, is Mothering Sunday and that isContinue reading “Sermon for Lent 4 (Mothering Sunday) 10th March 2024”
Sermon for Lent 3, 3rd March 2024
When we look at the history of the Church, there can’t any doubt that two of the landmark moments in that history both occurred in the 4th Century. The first was the Edict of Milan in the year 313. This was actually an imperial order about general religious freedom but because the Emperor Constantine wasContinue reading “Sermon for Lent 3, 3rd March 2024”
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