Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

One of the great traditions of our Christmas celebrations is the singing of Christmas Carols. It’s a tradition that most people I know thoroughly enjoy and in fact, over the years I’ve met more than one person who feels that it isn’t really Christmas until they’ve heard and sung Christmas Carols. And because it suchContinue reading “Sermon for the Nativity of the Lord, 24th and 25th December 2023”

Although it often has been, and still can be controversial, for many reasons, no one can really doubt that, for most of the past 2,000 years, the Church, and individual Christians have had a very great love of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a great devotion to her. Much of that love and devotion stemsContinue reading “Sermon for Advent 4 24th December 2023”

Today, 17th of December, is the day in the Church’s year when, regardless of what day of the week the 17th of December falls on, we start to use the Advent Antiphons at Evening Prayer. Antiphons, as I’m sure many of you will know, are the sentences, usually from scripture or based on scripture, thatContinue reading “Sermon for Advent 3 17th December 2023”