Showing posts with label The Rookeries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Rookeries. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 October 2024

Sermon-Unto thee shall all flesh come


A sermon given at Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 6th October 2024 inspired by the life and writings of abolitionist and radical Robert Wedderburn one of the ‘St Giles Blackbirds’ and readings from Deuteronomy 26.1-11 and John 6.26-35. This sermon was given on Harvest Sunday and during Black History Month.

Sunday, 12 May 2024

Sermon - Blackbirds, Pigeons, Doves & our Wings of Faith

Charles McGhee - One of the St Giles' Blackbirds (1824. Painting by John Dempsey. National Portrait Gallery)

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 12th May 2024 based on the text of 1 Peter 4.7-11 and John 15.26-16.4. You can listen to an audio recording of this sermon at this link.

Sunday, 5 May 2024

Sermon - Wings of Faith

Gin Lane 2016 by Thomas Moore

A sermon given during Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 5th May 2024 based on the text of Song of Solomon 4.16-5.2 and Revelation 3.14-end.

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

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