Advent 2: 8 December 2019 Isaiah 11.1-10; Romans 15.4-13; Matthew 3.1-12 When was the last time you got really excited about a promise someone had made to you? This is, after all, a time of year when people − especially young people − get excited about promises: mostly promises about what they’ll find under the […]
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The four weeks of Advent are a curious time in so many ways. As we perform the Church’s ritual of awaiting the birth, a birth that happened some 2020 years ago or so, we live in a world of Carol services and Christmas lights and acquisitive shopping entirely at variance with what is supposed to […]
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Revd Jeremy Fletcher Ask the animals and they will teach you Job 12. 7 -13 Luke 12. 16 – 32 ASWA at St James Piccadilly, 6.10.19 I am here because of a donkey. There’s much more to it than that, of course, but the donkey was pivotal. Cathedral Precentors get to help shape all sorts […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Psalm 144; Nehemiah 6:1-16; John 15:12 -27. ‘If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you’. [John 15:19]. +In the name of the Father and of the […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Psalm 121; Isaiah 43:14-44:5; John 5:30-47. I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild beasts will honour me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert…. [Isaiah 43:19-20]. +In the name of the Father and of […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Psalm 107: 1-16; Genesis 50:4-26; Mark 6:45-52. But Joseph said to them, ‘Fear not, for am I in the place of God? [Genesis 50:19]. …they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, ‘Take heart, it is I; have no fear’. [Mark 6:50] +In the […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Acts 5: 27-32; Psalm 150, 14-24; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you’, [John 20:21]. +In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. You do […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Psalm 35; 2 Chronicles 35:1-6, 10-16; Luke 22:1-13. Now the feast of unleavened bread drew near, which is called the Passover [Luke 22:1] +In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is the beginning of Passiontide, a season at which we begin […]
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