Sermons & Articles
Good Friday – Sermon/Meditation – The Wounds of Jesus
Good Friday 2020 The Wounds of Jesus 10 April 2020 Introduction Strange as it may sound, in our recognition of the truth that Jesus is God, we sometimes forget that Jesus was also a real physical person...
Sermon for Maundy Thursday 09/04/20
1 Corin 11:23-26; John 13:1-17, 31b-35. Darkness has fallen on the city of Jerusalem. Thirteen men move quickly and quietly through the narrow streets, one of them leading the way. “That’s him”, says a guard. “That’s who”? says another. “Jesus of Nazareth, of...
Palm Sunday Sermon 05/04/20
Palm Sunday 5 April 2020 Matthew 21:1-11 Now Jesus comes on public display. The triumphal entry into Jerusalem, this Palm Sunday story was the only occasion that Jesus deliberately drew attention to himself. And so he fulfils the...
Sermon for 29/03/20
John 11:1-45 Fifth Sunday of Lent 29 March 2020 Passiontide begins today. This is the name for the last two...
Sermon for Mothering Sunday 22/03/20
Mothering Sunday – 22nd March 2020 Our Family Eucharist on Mothering Sunday is a Service with many children and Uniformed Organisations present. Children give posies of flowers to all the ladies in Church, and we all enjoy a piece of Simnel...
My Rule of Life – Alison’s Lent Talk, April 2019
My rule of life and vocation in the Celtic tradition I grew up with a lot of discipline, which I chafed against. I wanted to choose what to do, whenever I felt like doing it. But as an adult, I began to value routines to keep me clean, fed, and healthy. This meant...
Pray As You Go – Sue O’Neill’s Lent Talk, March 2019
Pray As You Go Continuing on the talks during Lent about prayer, Mark asked me to speak about a prayer tool that I find really helpful. I know many of you as I do, still remember when telephones were for making calls and you had to walk to a red box at the end of the...
Cursillo – Trudi’s Lent Talk, March 2019
Mark has asked me talk a little bit about Cursillo, and I am pretty sure some of you will be saying ’what on earth is that’. Well the starting point is ‘Cursillo is a movement within the church which provides a method by which we can learn to know, love and follow...
Advent Letter from Gemma Green, Parish Ordinand
College of the Resurrection Advent 2018 To all at Pagham Church Greetings from West Yorkshire! I can’t believe we are already in the season of Advent; the time has flown by! It has been a fantastic ten weeks so far at Mirfield. There is an amazing team of tutors here...
Remember, Recall, Reflect, 1918-2018
Following a particularly well-attended Remembrance Sunday morning service, here in Pagham we also marked the Centenary of the Armistice with a second event, “Remember, Recall, Reflect, 1918-2018”. As people arrived in church they were met with the...