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.
Holiness and love
“…You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” (NRSV, Leviticus 19:2)
Trinity Sunday turns our minds to the ultimate mystery of the Universe, to the nature and being of the Eternal God. This is the most fundamental fact in religion and one which more than any other determines the kind of person each of us is and the kind of life he or she leads. For we shall never strive to reach beyond the highest we know.
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi is Latin for ‘Body of Christ’.
Our Lord instituted the Eucharist on Maundy Thursday. The words which he has commanded the Church to use in the Eucharist, “This is my Body, This is my Blood”, are called the Words of Institution and they are recited at the Consecration of the Bread and Wine. When the priest, acting as Our Lord’s own representative, says these words, then the forms of Bread and Wine on the altar, and Our Lord’s Risen and Ascended Body and Blood in Heaven, become one. The consecrated Bread and Wine which hide Our Lord’s Body and Blood, we call the Blessed Sacrament.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
“Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him…And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, ‘All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.…and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world’ “ (Matthew 28:16-20)
This was the last of Our Lord’s Resurrection appearances before his actual Ascension. The disciples were now in Galilee where they were taking the opportunity to say goodbye to their relations and friends before going out to preach the Gospel and establish the Christian Church among all nations.