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12 Aug. 2020

If stars shine then so can we - The Reverend Canon Michael Smith (Pastor)

...just a reflection, God’s light reflecting off our lives, no, the light comes from the inside out, we are not simply reflectors of God’s light, we are sources of God’s...

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01 Nov. 2024

Sermon: Solemn Eucharist on All Saints' Day - The Reverend Dr Alan McCormack, Dean of Goodenough College, London

...a commonality of sin in the New Testament (‘All have sinned and fallen short’) so there is a commonality of sainthood, or perhaps more simply of ‘holiness’, among those who...

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11 May. 2020

The God who longs to be 'at home' with us - The Revd Canon Maggie McLean

...his freedom. Given what’s about to happen the teaching at first seems to be about the afterlife. About a place where, after all the suffering that is to come, the...

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22 Sep. 2019

Time and Eternity – The Reverend Canon Peter Moger (Precentor)

...it, and we are always, and increasingly, aware of the pressure of time. Today marks – for Heather and for me – the end of 9 happy years at York...

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14 May. 2018

I am sending upon you what my Father promised - Reverend Dr. Rowan Williams

...and now. All the ways we have of understanding how time and space work are simply too small to comprehend how God can be both human and divine. We’re confronted...

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29 Apr. 2018

Arise, shine, for your light has come - Canon Dr Christopher Collingwood (Chancellor)

...least from Handel’s oratorio, Messiah. Take this, for example: Comfort, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished,...

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18 Jun. 2023

How to be good - Canon Victoria Johnson, Precentor

...does it make us good? On the panel, we talked about the good that religion can do- the grass roots ‘good’ of kindness, compassion and community- the practical ‘good’ that...

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06 Apr. 2023

Maundy Thursday: Love's Last Word - The Very Revd Dean Dominic Barrington, Dean of York

...is the fire of God’s love – a love that only comes to us, a love that only comes to you and me, a love that only comes to the...

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20 May. 2018

Godquake - The Reverend Canon Michael Smith (Pastor)

...to pursue the ministry of Jesus and to build communities from which the Church, from which this church community, grew. Pentecost is about remembering that the Church was born in...

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19 Aug. 2018

Do you believe and trust in God?- the Reverend Canon Michael Smith (Pastor)

The Reverend Canon Michael Smith (Pastor) Sunday 19 August 2018 – Trinity 12 – Matins Jonah 1 & 2 Peter 3.14-end There are many great prophets in the Old Testament....

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13 Mar. 2022

Suppose a King is about to go to war - Canon Maggie McLean, Missioner

...kingship amounts to having finer buildings than those of his father. The son has missed the point. In Old Testament times, Kings were a separate kind of human being. They...

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05 Apr. 2023

Judas' Last Word - The Very Revd Dean Dominic Barrington, Dean of York

...Judas story is a sad one, and a complicated one. The sadness is obvious enough, I guess – the complexity harder to deal with. For it is not enough to...

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