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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', and it is not possible
(even for 'Superchaplain'!) to be in every location every Sunday. We are
well-served by retired or visiting priests, by our Assistant Curate the
Revd June Hutchinson based in
Cahors, and by a goodly number of 'Lay Assistants', who frequently find
themselves leading worship on their own. I try to lighten their load by
as often as possible preparing a short (mercifully!) '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. I will welcome feedback or comments from you via our webmaster - not always
possible during a sermon!
Until
January 2008. apart from an occasional one from June
Hutchinson, kindly standing in for me when I’m on
holiday or otherwise absent, I prepared the weekly homily. As a result of
qualified lay Readers moving into the chaplaincy over the last few
months, I now share the task. This is for me a welcome lightening of
workload: but more importantly, it provides a wider range of viewpoints
and styles, which is appropriate in a chaplaincy with worshippers from
such a variety of backgrounds and traditions.
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, 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.
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