Sermons

Our worship is a part of a cosmic liturgy of praise to the One who was slaughtered in reconciling a suffering universe to God.

Locating our struggles within the bigger picture of God’s purposes can give hope and purpose, but it also places us in a challenging place of priestly mission.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son may really be intended by Jesus as the Parable of the Loving Father and the Angry Brother.

The beatitudes proclaim God’s preferential love for the poor and challenge us to rethink our own dependence on financial security.

A modern paraphrase of a Homily from St Gregory Nazianzus for the Feast of the Nativity

Although the coming Christ is brings our deepest hopes to fulfillment, the transition will be traumatic and we still fear his coming because of our unhealthy investments in the present.

When we call Jesus King, we may not know what we’re saying.

Jesus calls us to accept forgiveness and get on with a life and faith that do not revolve constantly about trying to make up for mistakes.

Love is both command and promise and is what gives meaning to all our offerings to God.

Summing up the previous section of the gospel, Bartimaeus is a model disciple – one who sees who Jesus is, has no pretensions to power, leaves everything, and follows Jesus on the way.

Christ is our high priest, the sole mediator between the world and God, but as the body of Christ we share in Christ’s task of reconciling earth and heaven.

Because of who Jesus is, we are both naked and vulnerable before him, and confident to approach God. Our only fear is of ourselves!