Sermon-Images of Unity

Celtic Knot on a Cross

A sermon given during the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 19th January 2025 (Epiphany 2, Year C) based on readings from Isaiah 62.1-5, Psalm 36.5-10, 1 Corinthians 12.1-11 and John 2.1-11. The sermon was given on the morning of the first day of the proposed ceasefire between Israel and Gaza and at the start of Christian Unity Week.

Sermon - Jesus' Wedding Sermon to Us

Louis Kahan, The Wedding Feast at Cana, 1949 

A sermon given at the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 21st January 2024 – The Third Sunday of Epiphany (Year B) based on readings from John 2.1-11. You can listen to an audio recording of this sermon in the video clip below:

Sermon - An un-miraculous miracle?

Miracle at Cana, collage, by the artist Diamond.

A sermon preached at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 20th January 2022 (Epiphany 2, Year C) based on readings from Isaiah 62.1-5 and John 2.1-11

Good News in 100 words 
The gospel records few eye-witnesses to the miracle at Cana. On paper it seems a most un-miraculous miracle! Yet it’s a story that is part of the DNA of our lives, a story to which generations of people have added their own detail to fill in the gaps. That is our Epiphany. The seemingly unnoticed but life-changing revelation of Christ into our hearts, minds and bodies; whose miraculous love draws us ever closer to him and slowly transforms us from water into wine. 

Prayers of Intercession - The Wedding at Cana

Miracle at Cana, Wilson Bigaud, 1951 

Prayers written for The Second Sunday of Epiphany (Year C) based on readings from Isaiah 62.1-5, 1 Corinthians 12.1-11 and John 2.1-11 and the text of The Marriage Service

Almighty God, you blessed the wedding at Cana with your presence

and bless all who have vowed to follow you. 

By your Spirit, unite your church, that it might be a sign of your transforming love to all people.

We pray for our Bishops, Priests, Deacons and all who serve in your name;

for those preparing to make or renew vows of commitment and for those experiencing relationship difficulties.

We give thanks for the gifts of faith, hope and love.

May we use them to reveal a foretaste of the riches of your kingdom on earth.

Tribus miraculis - For these three miracles so wondrous