Categories: Sermons
Preached by the Revd. Gregory Clifton-Smith, using scripture Exodus 12: 1-13; 1 Peter 1: 3-12, at Evensong on Sunday 7th April 2013, the second Sunday of Easter. We live in very fast times, when everything we do seems to need to have been done yesterday. We rush from here to there, often not even having time for lunch breaks. If we eat [...]
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Preached by the Reverend Lionel Stock, using Isaiah 53 and Luke 24:13-35, at Mattins on Sunday 7th April, the second Sunday of Easter. We’d only been married three years. We’d moved house, there was a baby on the way, and I had a new job – much needed to pay the bigger mortgage. The change of employer was a [...]
Categories: Community, Sermons
The following is the text of a short biography which was printed in the order of service for her Thanksgiving Service on 18th March Sue was born in Sheffield where her father ran a Dr. Barnardos Home, but spent the war years in Kendal in the Lake District. Her parents then moved to London and [...]
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Preached by Canon Roland Riem, using Isaiah 35 and Romans 7.21-28, at Evensong on Sunday 17th March 2013, the fifth Sunday of Lent, Passion Sunday. Lent is the springtime of the liturgical year, when we see blossoms and buds of grace not yet in full bloom. Easter, when it comes (and it will come soon), is the Day of the [...]
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Preached by Canon Michael St.John-Channell, using scripture Isaiah 43.16-21; John 12.1-8, at Mattins and Sung Eucharist on Sunday 17th March 2013, the fifth Sunday of Lent, Passion Sunday. Many of you may recall the release of the film “The Passion of the Christ,” in 2004. Both Directed and Produced by Mel Gibson, and spoken mostly in Aramaic, it is perhaps the most [...]
Categories: Announcement, Community, News
We are pleased to be able to announce that the Deanery Book Sale, which raises funds for Boy Chorister scholarships, will reopen on Tuesday 26th March in the Prior’s Hall lobby from 10am to 4pm each day, when deliveries of books will also be welcome, again inside the lobby please. Due to recent events, it [...]
Categories: Events, Media, Music, News, Press releases
Winchester Cathedral has today released information of its 2013 series of organ recitals. Starting on 1 April (Easter Monday) at 4pm with recently arrived Assistant Director of Music, George Castle, in his first series at Winchester Cathedral. This year, most of the recitals are on Bank Holiday Mondays at 4pm, with two in the middle [...]
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Preached by the Reverend Lionel Stock, using Genesis 37:3-4,12-End and 1Peter 2:16-End, at Evensong on Sunday 10th March, the fourth Sunday of Lent, Mothering Sunday. It’s a rags-to-riches story, so the lower the starting point of the hero, the more glorious the ultimate turnaround. And Joseph’s transformation could hardly begin any lower than the bottom of a pit. [...]
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Preached by the Revd. Gregory Clifton-Smith, using scripture Colossians 3: 12-17; John 19: 25b-27, at Mattins and Sung Eucharist on Sunday 10th March 2013, the fourth Sunday of Lent. It may come as no surprise that in our Lenten theme of 21st centuary discipleship, on this Mothering Sunday I would like to suggest that we look again at the person of Mary [...]
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12 March to 22 April, Cathedral opening hours. Winchester Cathedral is delighted to welcome an exhibition of sculpture by Edward Hopkins for a Lenten exhibition in the Retrochoir. Hopkins was an established furniture maker before turning to devotional work. This shows in his understanding of his chosen material, together with the clarity of design in [...]