Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

The parable of the sower and the seed must be one of the most well-known of all Jesus’ parables. It’s so well-known in fact that part of it, at least, has passed into everyday speech through that very well-known saying, ‘Some fell on stony ground’. Actually, in the context in which it’s normally meant inContinue reading “Thought for the Day: 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 5) 12th July, 2020”

This morning’s Gospel reading can, I think, unless we pay close attention to what Jesus is saying, present us with something of a puzzle. In the teaching we read this morning, Jesus promises to give “rest” to those who come to him, in other words to give rest to his disciples, to Christians, to us.Continue reading “Thought for the Day: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 4) 5th July, 2020”

I’m sure that many of you will have heard of John Henry Newman. Newman was a 19th Century Anglican priest, and although originally an evangelical, he became one of the leaders of the so-called Oxford Movement, the group who brought about the Anglo-Catholic revival in the Church of England in the early-mid 1800’s. Later, NewmanContinue reading “Thought for the Day: 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 2) – 21st June, 2020”