Thought for the Day-Doorway to the Sublime

Rene Magritte – The Improvement, 1962

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 6th August 2025 - The Feast of the Transfiguration based on the text of Luke 9.28-36 

Sermon - Standing at the Threshold

Woman Standing in a Doorway, Edvard Munch, 1906

Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 19th February 2023 (Year A, Next before Lent) based on readings from Exodus 24.12-end, 2 Peter 1.16-end and Matthew 17.1-9-end.

You can watch a recording of the sermon (cropped and clipped from the church private facebook group) below:

Start:Stop-The Transfiguration

The Transfiguration - Sieger Koder

Good morning and welcome to Start Stop. Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration when we remember that moment when Peter, James and John are called up to the top of a mountain where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory. Today we will read the account in Mark's Gospel: