Categories: Sermons
Preached by the Reverend Lionel Stock, using Jeremiah 3.11-18 and Jude 1-4, 17-25, at Mattins on Sunday 28th October 2012, the Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity. Last Tuesday was the end of an era. The analogue TV signal was turned off in the last region of the UK. If you want to watch TV from now on, it’s digital [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by Canon Richard Lindley, using Luke 6.12-16, at Evensong on Sunday 28th October 2012, the Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity. In the first episode ever of ‘Yes Minister’, Jim Hacker, played by Paul Eddington, has just been re-elected to Parliament, and is sitting at home, fingers drumming, waiting for the phone to ring, desperately hoping for a cabinet post. There’s [...]
Categories: Events, News, Press releases
Special Tours: 19 and 26 November 2012, 13.30 The Friends of Winchester Cathedral’s colourful new history book Heroes & Villains of Winchester Cathedral is being launched with two Special Tours on 19 and 26 November at 1.30pm. The tour, like the book, will take people on a whirlwind journey from the building of the Cathedral [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by John Roper – Gideons International in the British Isles, using Joshua 14.6-15, at Mattins on Sunday 21st October 2012, the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. Caleb was numbered among the people of God. Is that the story of your life? Have you received God’s spirit of adoption? This morning I should like you to note 4 things [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by the Reverend Lionel Stock, using Isaiah 54.1-14 and Luke 13.31-end, at Evensong on Sunday 21st October 2012, the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. This is the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Steven Spielberg’s film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”. Just in case any of you do not remember the plot – and if you have just bought the [...]
Categories: Announcement, Community
This year’s Carol Services will be held on Wednesday 19 December Thursday 20 December Saturday 22 December First Carol Service (19 December) As in previous years the First Carol Service will be all-ticketed. Some of the tickets available will be for standing to the rear of the Nave and in the North and South Nave [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by the Right Reverend Sandy Millar, at Choral Mattins, attended by Her Majesty’s Judges, Magistrates and Representatives of Civic and Legal Bodies in Hampshire and the Channel Islands, on Sunday 14th October 2012. Let us pray: Lord Jesus Christ….what we know not, teach us: what we have not, give us: what we are not, make us…for your [...]
Categories: Community, Events, News
The Marketing Team have been busy making a Cathedral Lantern which will be used in the performances of Winchester: Chronicles of Light. The Lantern will also be lit up on Thursday 22 November to lead the Christmas lantern procession from the Great Hall to the Cathedral to mark the opening on the Christmas Market and [...]
Categories: Sermons
Preached by the Dean, theVery Revd James Atwell, using scripture Genesis 12: 1 – 5, Matthew 5 : 43 – 48, at the Sung Eucharist on Sunday 7th October 2012, Harvest Sunday, the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. I hope it is not telling tales out of school to say that the Bishop’s Staff have been doing an exercise in personality profiles. [...]
Categories: Events, Music, News, Press releases
Winchester: Chronicles of Light, 12 – 28 October, 2012 Since its launch in February this year, work has steadily been progressing on a once-in-a generation event – the sound and light extravaganza, Winchester: Chronicles of Light. The show explores over a thousand years of history in the City through the characters and events that have [...]