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Wednesday, 21 October 2026

A Beacon of Thy Charity - A Grace for the Trinity House Civic Lunch on Trafalgar Day 2026

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Anton Melbye, The Eddystone Lighthouse, 1846 A grace offered before the Civic Lunch at Trinity House on Wednesday 21st October 2026. The pra...
Sunday, 27 September 2026

Sermon-Who is Jesus? Who am I? Who am I becoming?

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Georges Rouault, Christ (1925–27) A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 27 th September 2026 (Year A, Seve...
Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Thought for the Day-Our Family of Faith

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Egon Schiele, Mother with Two Children III, 1915–17. Oil on canvas, Belvedere, Vienna. A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of...
Saturday, 19 September 2026

Baptism Homily-Another verse in an ancient song

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State Baptism of a Child of Noble Blood, Anonymous, c1612, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A homily given on the baptism of [N] by The Rever...
Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Thought for the Day-Individual but not Independent

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Dance (I), Henry Matisse, 1909 A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 15th ...
Sunday, 13 September 2026

Sermon-I Look Up to Him. I Look Down on Him.

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  Contempt of Hatred (Expressive Head), by Ernest Joseph Bailley, c1792 (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent) A sermon given during Holy Communion at ...
Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Thought for the Day-God Save our Gracious Church

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King Charles III (b. 1948) by Peter Kuhfeld (b. 1952), Royal Collection Trust. A meditation drawing on the imagery of Proverbs 8.1-17 and Re...
Sunday, 6 September 2026

Great Fire Anniversary Sermon-Stirring Up Old Coals

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The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the...
Thursday, 20 August 2026

BOOK REVIEW- Lady Fanshawe’s Receipt Book: The Life and Times of a Civil War Heroine by Lucy Moore

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It is a nice change to reada book about the record of a life of a woman connected to the church. Ann Fanshawe left a memoir and a ‘receipt b...
Saturday, 8 August 2026

BOOK REVIEW- Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their Friends by Daphne du Maurier

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Daphne Du Maurier’s account of the lives of Anthony and Francis Bacon ends with a description of her visit to St Olave Hart Street in Octobe...
Wednesday, 5 August 2026

BOOK REVIEW-Barabus by S.J. Fowler

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So far a unique way for me to discover a book - from a link in the footer of an email sent to me by the author; the title caught my eye. Unl...