Thought for the Day-My peace I give to you

Dove, Pablo Picasso, 1949

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime sermon of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street, City of London on Tuesday 5th May 2026 based on the text of John 14.27-end.

Thought for the Day – Spiritual Friendship: Barnabas and the Holy Trinity

Friendship, Pablo Picasso, 1908

A Thought for the Day given at St Giles-in-the-Fields on the Feast of St Barnabas the Apostle, Wednesday 11th June 2025 at 1pm based on the texts of Acts 11.19-30 and John 15.12-17.

Sermon - Sing that Bittersweet Symphony

Marian Anderson by William H. Johnston, 1945 (Smithsonian Museum)

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 21st April 2024 (The Third Sunday after Easter) based on the text of 1 Peter 2.11-17 and John 16.16-22. You can listen to an audio recording of this sermon at this link.

More Music and Poems for Corpus Christi

Francis Newton Souza, The Last Supper, 1990

It was a great joy to lead Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook on the Feast of Corpus Christi, which you can watch at this link. Preparing for Choral Classics involved finding out a lot about music and poems related to Corpus Christi. This post contains some of the information I didn’t have enough time to share in the service!