The Christian Faith

This section of the website provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments. It begins with Introduction·to the Christian Faith.  More content will be added in due course.

The section entitled Short Talks comprises 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.· 

 

In the power of the Holy Spirit: Pentecost

If we had friends who had let us down badly at the very time when we most needed their help, we should wonder whether we could ever trust them again.  We might take to heart the proverb, “Once bitten, twice shy”.  But no friends let anyone down as badly as the Apostles let Jesus down.

Read more: In the power of the Holy Spirit: Pentecost

The Saints

St Polycarp

In the year 155 A.D. in the sports stadium of Smyrna in Asia Minor, St Polycarp, the 86-year old Bishop of Smyrna, died as a martyr for Our Blessed Lord.  St Polycarp had been taught the Christian Faith by no less a person than St John the Apostle himself.  The Christians who were present at the time wrote an account of his holy courage.

Read more: The Saints

God's greatness and love: Harvest Thanksgiving

God’s greatness

Big things and little things

At Harvest Thanksgiving, especially in country parishes, we decorate the church with flowers and fruit and vegetables.  And you will often see one particular vegetable and the larger it is the better.  I mean, of course, the vegetable marrow, and those who grow them pick out the biggest and the best for the Harvest Festival.  In fact, you will often hear a really big one called a ‘Harvest Festival marrow’.  And yet, although marrows are such fine and comfortable-looking things, and we love to see them growing larger and larger in the garden or allotment until they look as though they will burst, they are really no more wonderful than a little flower like a daisy.

Read more: God's greatness and love: Harvest Thanksgiving