May
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1 May 2011 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 1 May 2011
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Sub-Dean and Canon Treasurer and Almoner
An examination of what the resurrection might mean for living today.
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1 May 2011 Sermon given at Evensong on Sunday 1 May 2011
The Reverend Dr Peter Doll, Canon Librarian, Norwich Cathedral
It is commitment and faithfulness that will bring us all through the lions’ den, through the tomb, to new life in the power of Christ’s Resurrection.
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1 May 2011 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 1 May
The Venerable Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
During May at her sermons at Matins, Canon Hedges is preaching on five of the seven sacraments. This sermon introduces the sacraments in general and then focuses on marriage, looking at why the Church regards marriage as important and asking, what are the gifts God pours out through this sacrament and what is our response to these gifts?
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8 May 2011 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 8 May 2011
The Venerable Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
In this second sermon in a series on the sacraments, Canon Hedges looks at the subject of Confession, examining Anglican practice and concluding that this sacrament has the power to release people from their burdens and to transform lives at an individual level and in wider society.
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15 May 2011 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 15 May
The Venerable Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
In the third in this series of sermons on the sacraments Canon Hedges looks at the subject of Anointing the sick; describing how the sacrament is administered and looking at the question of whether God does really heal us.
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7 May 2011 Address given at The Installation of The Reverend Professor Vernon White as Canon of Westminster
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
'Pray, and then, like the twitch of a curtain in what you thought was an empty house, the hidden hand of God will quietly move something into place.'
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15 May 2011 Sermon given at Sunday Eucharist on Sunday 15 May 2011
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
Our Lord is able through his ministers to exercise his own eternal ministry as the Good Shepherd, who knows his flock, lays down his life for the flock, and wants to unite the flock bringing all the sheep together.
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22 May 2011 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 22 May
The Venerable Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
In the 4th sermon in the series on the sacraments, Canon Hedges describes what happens at a confirmation and discusses the relations of this sacrament to those of Baptism & the receiving of Holy Communion. She concludes by looking at the question of why this sacrament is administered by a Bishop and what it means to belong to the universal church.
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25 May 2011 Address given at the Thanksgiving Service for The Right Honourable Lord Bingham of Cornhill KG
The Right Honourable The Lord Mackay of Clashfern KT, Lord Chancellor 1987–97
On behalf of all the rest of us here today I wish to express to Elizabeth and all the family our deep sympathy in their sad loss and may the future hold for each of them all that Tom would have wished for them.
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29 May 2011 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 29 May
The Venerable Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
In this final sermon in the series on the sacraments, Canon Hedges looks at Ordination asking three questions: First, why do we ordain at all? Second, does this sacrament make ordained people special and perhaps different from other Christians? And third, does every Christian have a vocation?
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29 May 2011 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 29 May
The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon Theologian
The ascension of Jesus was a kind of bereavement for his early disciples. They would have to do without the certainty of his visible presence with them. But this is to prepare them to find Him elsewhere, throughout the whole of life. We too can experience a similar kind of religious bereavement when immediate religious securities are removed. If so, this too can be journey to a fuller faith for us too.