Category Archives: Sermons

A little over eleven hundred years ago, in the north of France, a scribe whose name we don’t know sat at a desk in a place which probably no longer exists, and laid out a fairly simple set of tools. … Continue reading →

A sermon preached at Holy Rood, Oxford, by Fr Gregor Lenzen, CP, sometime Provincial of the South German-Austrian Viceprovince of the Congregation of the Passionists, 7 July, 2012. Dear Brothers and Sisters! it is a great honour and pleasure to … Continue reading →

A sermon preached by the Rev’d Prof. Allen Brent at Blackfriars, Oxford, Wednesday, 30th May (Wednesday in Whitsun-week), 2012 Readings: Pss 147-150 OT Wis 9:1-18 NT 1 Cor 3:1-23 ST PAUL, in our New Testament reading, addresses the Church at … Continue reading →

Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the … Continue reading →

A sermon preached by Fr Daniel Lloyd at Holy Rood, 28th April, 2012, Easter IV, Year B When that totem of the Enlightenment Immanuel Kant wanted to try and prove that there were some things about the universe which you … Continue reading →

A sermon preached by the Rev’d Daniel Lloyd at Solemn Evensong, Blackfriars, Oxford, Wednesday 29th February 2012: ‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for … Continue reading →

A sermon preached by Mgr Andrew Burnham at Holy Rood, Oxford on Ash Wednesday, 22 February, 2012 Inter vestibulum et altare plorabunt sacerdotes, ministri Domini dicentes: parce, Domine, parce populo tuo; et ne des haereditatem tuam in opprobrium. Between the … Continue reading →

A sermon preached by Mgr Andrew Burnham at Holy Rood, Oxford, on 11th February 2012: Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offence to Jews or to Greeks or … Continue reading →

A semon preached by the Rev’d Daniel Lloyd on 4th February, 2012 (Sunday 5, Year B): And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her; and she served them’. The introit … Continue reading →

A sermon preached by Mgr Andrew Burnham, Candlemas, 2012: The light has come and has shone upon a world enveloped in shadows; the Dayspring from on high has visited us and given light to those who lived in darkness. This, … Continue reading →