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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
our Chaplain the Revd Canon Andrew Hawken, by
our Assistant Chaplains the Revd June
Hutchinson based in Cahors and the Revd Tony Jewiss based in Limoux, by retired or visiting
priests, 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 (once put on the site!) 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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