Sermon – 19th July 2026 – 7th Sunday after Trinity – Patronal Festival Isaiah 12:2-6 Matthew 20:20-28 Agatha Christie wrote that ‘A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no laws, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that sticks in its path.’ Which …
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Sermon 2026-07-12
Sermon – 12th July 2026 – 6th Sunday after Trinity – Choral Evensong Isaiah 55: 10-13, Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 As some of you know I have recently been on holiday for a week and in my absence my lovely neighbour had been watering all my pots. However, she also went off on holiday before …
Sermon 2026-07-05
Sermon – 5th July 2026 – 5th Sunday after Trinity Matthew 11:16-19 and 25-30/Romans 7:15-25a. Feeling frustrated is a very human emotion. I am sure we can all remember feeling frustration at some point with something or someone in the last couple of weeks. Last Saturday morning, I chose the slowest self-scanning till at the …
Sermon 2026-06-28
Sermon – 28th June 2026-Fourth Sunday after Trinity A Joint Service of Sung Mattins I’m sure I’m not the only one who is happily transported by that beautiful anthem of Howard Goodall’s to the very funny television series ‘The Vicar of Dibley’; familiarly set in a rural parish, with a full-of-love-and-faith female vicar juggling the …
Sermon 2026-06-07
Sermon – 7th June 2026 1st Sunday after Trinity Mathew 9:9-13 There is so much that I could focus on in our readings this morning – I was spoilt for choice! But these words struck me as I read Matthew – “Go and learn what this means,” Jesus says in today’s gospel reading, “‘I desire …
Sermon 2026-05-10
Sermon – 10th May 2026 John 21:1-14 In the Gospel, the disciples worked hard the whole night—and caught nothing. They were not lazy. They were not careless. They were not doing something wrong. They were trying. And yet… nothing happened. And this is where the Gospel becomes very real for us. Because many of …
Sermon 2026-05-03
Sermon 3rd May 2026 John 14:1-14 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” (14:6-7) The passage, unique to John’ Gospel, in which …
Reflection May 2026
Reflections from the Rectory – May 2026 There is a lot going on in our world isn’t there? Sometimes it’s hard to sustain our hope and sense of ‘okayness’. I was struck, as so many were, with the recent space mission and in particular with the sense of unity that they expressed when looking back …
Sermon 2026-04-05
5th April 2026 – Easter Day Acts 10:34-43, John20: 1-18 Many of you, I am sure, saw at least some of the some of the service in Canterbury Cathedral when Archbishop Sarah was installed in the episcopal chair of St Augustine. A service of magnificent impeccably choreographed …
Sermon 2026-03-08
8th March 2026 Evensong – Sermon When I was strong armed into giving a short talk today, by David John, I didn’t realise at the time just how foolhardy it was, as I can’t pronounce any of the Welsh words! Be that as it may, as an English imposter, I am delighted to talk to …
