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As
you will gather when wandering about this site, or will already know if
you worship with us, this is a very large 'parish'. We are well-served by
retired or visiting priests, by our Assistant Curate the Revd June
Hutchinson based in Cahors, and by a number of qualified lay Readers.
Each of these prepares a sermon on Sundays when they are preaching, and
one of these sermons appears here on this website for each Sunday. This
provides a wide range of viewpoints and styles, which is appropriate in a
chaplaincy with worshippers from such a variety of backgrounds and
traditions.
We
also have a goodly number of 'Congregational Worship Leaders', who
frequently find themselves leading worship on their own, and this has
increased since October 2009 as we are without a full-time chaplain. They
are able to use sermons prepared as discussed above as a 'homily' or
address which they can use in place of the sermon which a priest or lay
reader would prepare and deliver.
For
those of you unable to get to a service on a particular Sunday, or just
looking to start your week with a spiritual perspective, this page points
to the homily for last Sunday and to earlier ones if you wish to see
them. We welcome feedback or comments from you via our webmaster
- not always possible during a sermon!
Please click on the links below to bring up a printable version of this
week’s homily or those for earlier Sundays.
On
30 March 2008, we were blessed by the visit of Bishop David Hamid, our
Suffragan Bishop, for the confirmation of a number of young people and
adults from across the Chaplaincy in Toulouse. His sermon on that special
day is HERE.
You
may also be interested in some ‘Reflections on Prayer’ which resulted
from a call from our Bishop Geoffrey Rowell for all of us to go deeper in
our praying: click HERE to
see more.
Finally,
click HERE for
some thoughts on the role of the Bible in the Anglican Church which our Chaplain
for the period August 2006 to September 2009 Father Charles Howard wrote
for the newsletter of the (Catholic) Archdiocese of Albi at the request
of the Archbishop.
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