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Preached by Canon Rolan Riem using scripture Luke 14.25-33 at the Eucharist on 5th September 2010, Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity. I’ve been away for three weeks crossing a valley called Half-a- Century. Usually birthdays come and go, providing an excuse for a little treat, but 50 years did feel like a threshold, which I approached [...]
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Preached by Canon Roland Riem using scripture Isaiah 12.1-6 at Mattins on 8th August 2010, Tenth Sunday after Trinity. I leap at the opportunity to preach about ‘The Song of Deliverance’, which formed the second part of our first lesson and which we say regularly at Morning Prayer. I must confess that I’m not always [...]
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Preached by Canon Roland Riem using scripture Colossians 3.2 and Luke 12.13-21 at Evensong on 1st August 2010, Ninth Sunday after Trinity. The joy of undefended living Holiday season may be the time to enjoy well-worn stories. Like the one about the fisherman who is dangling his fishing rod out the side of his boat [...]
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Preached by the Bishop of Winchester using scripture Colossians 1.15-28 at Sung Eucharist on 18th July 2010, Seventh Sunday after Trinity; Liturgy of the Foundation. This service, and the part given me in this Liturgy as Bishop and Visitor to the Cathedral, is one of the special privileges of my year. I have the opportunity [...]
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Preached by Canon Roland Riem using scripture Deuteronomy 28.1-14 at Evensong on 11th July 2010, Sixth Sunday after Trinity. Blessings – blessings from our Friends and to you all! That’s the sermon, so if you’ve had a hard Friends and Festival weekend celebration, you have my permission to take 40 winks. My wife and I [...]
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Preached by Canon Jeremy Davies, Precentor Salisbury Cathedral, on at Mattins on 11th July 2010, Sixth Sunday after Trinity; Winchester Festival Mattins. I shouldn’t lower the tone of this morning’s celebration of the arts, and in particular of the Winchester Arts Festival, as we gather here in a building which is itself an international festival [...]
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Preached by The Very Revd John Guille, Dean of Southwell, using scripture 1 Peter 2.2-10 and John 21.1-19 at Evensong on 10th July 2010, for the Friends Festival Evensong. “That’s what Friends are for”. I wonder how often we have said that or have heard it said by others. Not surprisingly perhaps I would like [...]
Over 400 children from five different schools in the Meon Valley will be coming to take part in a special concert in Winchester Cathedral on Monday 28 June at 1.30pm. Aged between 10 and 11, they will be joined by pupils from two schools in Andover who took part in a similar event last June, as [...]
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Preached by the Bishop of Winchester using scripture Ephesians 6.10-20 on 23rd June 2010 at a Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving for 11 Light Brigade on return from operations in Afghanistan. It is a great privilege, and a large responsibility, for the City of Winchester and for its Cathedral, that you have asked us to [...]
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Preached by Canon Roland Riem using scripture Deuteronomy & Acts 27 at Evensong on 20th June 2010, Third Sunday after Trinity. From a distance, the world looks blue and green And the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance, the ocean meets the stream And the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, we all have [...]