Short Talks
This section of the website comprises short stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals. More talks/sermons/homilies/articles will be added in due course.
The section of the website entitled The Christian Faith provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments.
Trinity Sunday
God the Father made the world, God the Son came to save us from our sins, and God the Holy Spirit gives us the power to become holy. And yet we know that these Three Persons are together One God, and we call them the Holy Trinity. We remember this truth on Trinity Sunday, which is the Sunday after Pentecost.
The Trinity
“…in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” (NRSV, Matthew 28:19)
One of the great mistakes we all make at one time or another is that we expect to understand the mystery of the Trinity. Yet if our minds could really grasp the mind of God they would have to be on a level with God’s mind – which is an obvious absurdity. So it is that the more we explain the doctrine of the Trinity, the more we explain it away. But we should always remember that God has revealed to us the mystery of the Trinity, not for the sake of satisfying our curiosity, but rather that, by the knowledge he gives us about himself, we may be drawn closer to him and be enabled to worship and obey him with greater understanding.
Worship
“…the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever…” (RSV Catholic edition, Revelation 4:10)
Among the great tourist attractions of England are its medieval cathedrals, and each year hundreds of thousands of visitors both from home and overseas look round them. But the last thought which entered the heads of the men who designed and built them was that they were constructing a tourist attraction. They did not even build them as the great places of pilgrimage which they quickly became.