Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

Anyone who’s ever taken up something as a hobby or pastime, or who’s taken up something for a more serious purpose such as a sport with the intention of entering into competition, will know that, in order to improve at what we’re doing requires at least some dedication to the activity in question. We mayContinue reading “Sermon for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 17) 26th September, 2021”

Last weekend, I had the pleasure and privilege to conduct a wedding at St Gabriel’s and, as is very often the case at Church weddings, the Bible reading we heard was chapter 13 of St Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. I’m sure that’s a reading that we’re all familiar with. In it, St PaulContinue reading “Sermon for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 16) 19th September, 2021”

  During the time that I was thinking about offering myself for ordination, the diocese of Blackburn, under whose jurisdiction and care I was then under, were running an educational course called God our Rock, subtitled, Foundations for Christian Living. It was a course that anyone could enrol on and take but it was especiallyContinue reading “Sermon for the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 15) 12th September, 2021”