Extract from a sermon by the Dean on the First Sunday in Creation: Ocean Sunday (1 September 2019): On this first Sunday of Creation we...

190825 Pentecost 11C Jeremiah 1:4-10 Ps 71:1-6 Hebrews 12:18-29 Luke 13:10-17 + In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy...

An extract from the Dean's sermon for Sunday, 18 August 2019: We look to Jesus as we find ourselves ‘running the race’ with all those...

190728 Pentecost 7C: Hosea 1:2–10; Psalm 85; Colossians 2:6–15; Luke 11:1–13. + In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy...

An extract from a sermon by the Dean on Sunday, 21 June 2019. Mary’s story is the story of so many women in the church over the past 2000...

An extract from the Dean's sermon for Sunday, 7 July 2019: We’ve come a long way. And it is not all good. The distance between the...

An extract from the Dean's sermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost (30 June 2019) The call of God on our lives invites us to see...

A sermon preached at Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday, 23 June 2019, during the meeting of Diocesan Synod. Friends, how wonderful to be...

190616 Trinity C, Proverbs 8 1-4, 22-31 Psalm 8, Romans 5.1-5 John 16: 12-15 + In the name of the holy Trinity. Amen When Moses led...

An extract from the Dean's sermon for Pentecost Sunday (9 June 2019) Here we are, seeking to love God with all our soul, with our...

An extract from the Dean's sermon for Sunday, 2 June 2019: A life centred around love for God cannot be a selfish life. We choose no...

An extract from the Dean's sermon for Sunday, 26 May 20129: The Table stands at the centre of our worship today. It is always so for...

An exact from the Dean's sermon for Sunday, 19 May 2019: Jesus did not give many commands. He was invitational rather than dictatorial....

An extract from the Dean's sermon for Mothers Day 2019: Like a mother whose ear is attuned to the call of her own infant, or an infant...

Easter 3 John 21:1-19 Revelation 5:6-14 Psalm 30 Acts 9: 1-6 X In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Amen. We...

Extract from the Dean's sermon for Easter 2C (28 April 2019): I love the ancient Christian story of the risen Jesus appearing to Thomas a...

An extract from the Dean's sermon for Easter 2019: Jesus demonstrated total trust in God even to the point of death. Never seeking to be...

An extract from a sermon preached by the Dean on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, 7 April 2019: In each version of this story, the woman with...

Lent 4 Mothering Sunday. Joshua 5:2-12 Psalm 32, 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, Luke 15:11-32 + In the name of the Father and of the Son and of...

190324 Lent 3C The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Isaiah 7: 10-14, Psalm 40 6-13, Hebrews 10: 4-19, Luke 1:26-38 + In the name...