Short Talks
This section of the website comprises short stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals. More talks/sermons/homilies/articles will be added in due course.
The section of the website entitled The Christian Faith provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments.
The Babe of Bethlehem
“God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him” (1 John 4:9)
When on a clear and frosty night we look up at the sky sparkling with stars and strewn with the stardust of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, we sense the wonder of it all but we do not really comprehend it. It seems vast indeed, but not unimaginably so; remote yet friendly and secure. And it is easy to forget that there are hundreds of millions of other galaxies far beyond the range of human sight, so that for all the vastness of what we see, it is only a relatively minute part of the whole.
The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus
The Holy Name of Jesus
“…he was called Jesus” (NRSV, Luke 2:21)
Such was the Name which God the Son chose for himself when he became Man. And he chose it because it summed up the whole sublime purpose of his coming into the world – Jesus, Saviour. So the angel announced to St Joseph, “…you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” (NRSV, Matthew 1:21, our emphasis).