Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

The first US President that I remember was Richard Nixon. I’m sure many of you will remember Nixon and some who don’t remember him will have heard of him because of the nature of his downfall, his resignation to avoid impeachment for of his attempted cover-up of the Watergate affair. Perhaps because he is theContinue reading “Sermon for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 6th July 2025”

One of the problems I’ve spoken about in the past is that of trying to really understand what’s going on in a Sunday Gospel reading when we read them as we do, that is, taken out of the context of the Gospel as a whole. And I think today’s Gospel reading is a good exampleContinue reading “Sermon for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, 29th June 2025”

One of the most well-known of all prayers is the Serenity Prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. This is a quite modern prayer; it was only composed in the 1930’s, but it has become aContinue reading “Sermon for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 22nd June 2025”