Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

If someone were to ask us to sum up, in a few words, what it means to be a Christian, what would we say? We might think that’s quite a hard thing to do but I think we could do that very easily in just three sentences . First of all we must pay attentionContinue reading “Sermon for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 13) 25th August 2024”

I’m sure that anyone who’s read the Gospels will have noticed that the fourth Gospel, St John’s Gospel, is quite different to the other three. The Gospels of Ss Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as the Synoptic Gospels because they tell much the same stories and, taken together, they form a synopsis, a generalContinue reading “Sermon for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 11), 11th August 2024”

As many of you will know, one of my favourite TV programmes was, and still is, the 1990s sitcom, Father Ted. For me, one of the things that makes Father Ted so funny is that, like all good comedy it simply takes real life and exaggerates it’s silliness, the eccentricities of people and so onContinue reading “Sermon for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 10), 4th August 2024”