Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

Lent is the great penitential season of the Church’s year. So we’re now in that time of year when we’re called more than at any other time, to think about our own sinfulness. To think about our own lives and how far short of the teaching and example of Christ we fall. To think about how we might do better inContinue reading “Sermon for Lent 1, 22 February 2026”

Today we’re celebrating one of the great feasts of the Church’s year. To give the feast it’s proper name, we’re celebrating the Presentation of the Lord because, as we’ve just heard in the Gospel, what we celebrate today is that day when Jesus, as a first-born son, was taken to the temple 40 days after his birthContinue reading “Sermon for The Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas) 1st February 2026”

I don’t know if anyone watched it, but during the past week the 1971 film Mary Queen of Scots was shown on TV. I only managed to catch a few minutes of it here and there myself, but I have seen it before and it is a film I quite enjoy, as did many other people as is shownContinue reading “Sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 18th January 2026”