Sermon for the 6th Sunday in Easter and the Annual Meeting of Parishioners
29 May 2011
Good Friday 2011
Triduum Good Friday 2011 With a kiss….
Easter 2011
The resurrection according to Matthew
2And suddenly there was a great earthquake;
for an angel of the Lord,
descending from heaven,
came and rolled back the stone
and sat on it.
sermon The angel laughed
Christmas
Sermon preached by the Reverend Christine Simes Christmas 2010
2010
Sermon preached by Mother Joanne on her last day in the parish, on the 4th Sunday of Easter. Joanne becomes the parish priest at Kensington on June 15th 2010. Easter 4 2010
The Baptism of Our Lord sermon preached 10th January 2010
Sermon collections from other times and other places
These are sermon series preached for Passion Sunday and the Triduum, that is the Three Great Days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day.
2004 year C
This series focuses on the symbolic world of John’s gospel…….
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2005 year A
If you go to Canterbury Cathedral you will see a plaque on the wall listing all the archbishops of Canterbury. It begins with Saint Augustine in 597. At about 1093 you find the name Saint Anselm. He is remembered for a piece of writing he did called Cur Deus Homo meaning ‘Why did God become human?’ This is still an issue for us today. What is it that Jesus has done for us? What difference does it make that he lived and died? Some Christians have a simple explanation for this which goes like this: ‘Jesus became human so that he would die for us and we would be saved.’ Saved in this scheme means saved from God’s punishment, saved from hell. The whole mechanism all requires that we believe in Jesus. If we don’t we’re not saved.
Beginning today I want to give some alternatives to this crude and often well publicised view……….
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2002 Year A
“Rowan Williams refers to Jesus as ‘the pure victim’. He is the victim who suffers innocently but does not respond with violence, hatred or a will to destroy those who have hurt him. The trial of Jesus is the trial of the victim who simply will not retaliate. The resurrection is the story of restoring to friendship those who have betrayed, denied and deserted him. In this way we see that human beings always live with hope. Jesus shows that salvation is in the hands of the victim.”
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Lent Series:
Lent 2003 year B
Advent series 2006
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