02 May Sermon: Easter 3 (Year C)
As Benedictines, we take three vows at our profession: obedience, stability and conversion of life. Each of them echoes something...
21 Mar Sermon: Lent 3 (Year C)
Since joining the Community here and getting involved in the Kitchen Garden, as well as seeing the growth and development...
09 Mar Sermon: Lent 1 (Year C)
In our gospel reading this morning we hear the familiar story of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. Amongst the...
06 Mar Sermon: Sunday before Lent (Year C)
I confess that I find myself somewhat lacking in words this week; I like many have been following the news...
07 Feb Sermon: 4th before Lent (Year C)
As a teenager, one of the more mortifying routines I had to endure – at that time in life when...
07 Feb Sermon: Epiphany 4 (Year C)
Exegesis changes. Just as our human relationships can only grow through interaction and attention to the different views and responses...
26 Jan Sermon: Epiphany 3 (Year C)
I find that it’s all too easy to come to a service intending, wanting, even trying, to listen to the...
23 Jan Sermon: Epiphany 2 (Year C)
There is the saying, ‘you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family’; which expresses perhaps the mixture...
15 Jan Sermon: Baptism of Christ (Year C)
A few days ago, some of us were discussing the appropriate date to celebrate the incarnation of Christ: was it...
27 Dec Sermon: Christmas Day (Year C)
In 1566, following one of the harshest winters in living memory, the Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel produced a work entitled...