Thought for the Day - The Beginning and the End

The Course of Empire: Destruction, Thomas Cole, 1836

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 29th April 2025 based on the text of Mark 13.5-13

Our gospel reading today forms the start of what some call the “Little Apocalypse”. As well as recording the longest speech by Jesus in the whole of Mark’s gospel, it’s a passage that may reveal something about the people who first heard the text, whose writer the church remembers today.

Sermon - The Risen Christ in our Midst

Jesus Appears to the Disciples After the Resurrection by Imre Morocz, 2009

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields at 11am on Sunday 27th April 2025, prior to the Annual Parish Meeting and based on the texts of 1 John 5.4-12 and John 20:19-23

“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”

Thought for the Day - The Road to Everywhere

Emmaus by Janet Brooks Gerloff, 1992

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St-Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 23rd April 2025 based on the text of Luke 24.13-35.

Sermon - Seeing Salvation

Michael Cook, Noli me tangere, 2016

A homily given during Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 20th April 2025 (Easter Sunday) at 6.30pm based on the text of John 20.11–23

Thought for the Day - Love and Betrayal

The Wounded Deer, 1946 by Frida Kahlo

Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion on Wednesday 16th April 2025 at St Giles-in-the-Fields based on the text of Hebrews 12.1-3 and John 13.21-32.

Sermon - Word Made Flesh

Aaron Douglas, The Creation, 1935. Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

A sermon given during the Choral Eucharist at St Olave Hart Street, City of London on Palm Sunday, 13th April 2025 based on the text of the Palm Gospel (Luke 19.28-40) and the Passion Gospel (Luke 23.1-49)

Thought for the Day - Tested by Fire

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Burning Fiery Furnace, J.M.W. Turner, 1832 - Tate Gallery

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields based on the text of Daniel 3.14-20, 24-25, 28.

Thought for the Day - Who, What and Why

Carmen Lomas Garza, La Curandera, 1989, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

A Thought for the Day given during the lunchtime Eucharist at St Mary le Bow on Wednesday 2nd April 2025 based on the text of John 5.17-30.

Thought for the Day - A Mighty River

Olafur Eliasson's ‘Waterfall’ at Versailles, 2006

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street, City of London on Tuesday 1st April 2025 based on Ezekiel 47.1-9, 12