Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

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”

Anyone who’s ever been to Walsingham on a weekend pilgrimage will know that one of, if not the highlight of the experience, is the candlelit procession round the Shrine grounds on Saturday night. And it is quite something to experience. The church is always packed with several hundred pilgrims for the service, and all ofContinue reading “Sermon for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 9) 28th July 2024”