Sermon for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 16) 19th 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”

Sermon for the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 15) 12th 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”

Sermon for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 14) 5th September, 2021

A few days ago, I had a visit from my daughter and her children. In many ways it was a visit that said a lot about how different generations of people like and do different things. When I used to visit my grandparents, myself and my sisters would talk to them and play board gamesContinue reading “Sermon for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 14) 5th September, 2021”