March 2, 2025
Feeling overwhelmed by life’s challenges? This sermon, delivered on the Sunday before Lent, focuses on the Transfiguration of Jesus as described in the Luke’s gospel and the Epistle of 2 Peter. Just like the disciples on the mountaintop, we can find moments of divine illumination and transformation. This Lent, join us at St Barnabas as we journey towards Easter, exploring the rich traditions of Anglo-Catholic worship and discovering how faith can bring light to our own lives. Experience the power of scripture, the sacraments, music, and community to guide you through darkness and towards the “Daystar” within.
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February 23, 2025
The Light of the World, a painting (1903) by William Holman Hunt has been called ‘a sermon in a frame.’ It illustrates the gospel truth that God reveals himself, God makes himself known to us…wanting and waiting for us to respond. One of the great truths of the painting is the truth at the heart of human experience. It is God who makes himself known! God seizes the initiative, reveals himself and we, by grace, encounter him.
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February 9, 2025
God reaches into and disrupts the lives of Paul and Peter. They recognize their unworthiness but, by God’s grace and their willingness, they follow God’s call. Christians down through the ages, when the world around them was in tumult, follow the example of Jesus’, of the disciples, and of the saints who have gone before. They chose to build a community with love as its core value, caring not just for themselves but for their neighbour, the stranger, even their enemy.
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February 2, 2025
February 2nd’s multifaceted feast day (Candlemas, Purification of the Virgin Mary, and the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple), invites us to see and reflect Christ’s light, to ask for God’s purifying grace, and to present ourselves and our possessions with gratitude to God’s service.
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December 29, 2024
This sermon by our lay reader Roger Tulk explores the visit of Jesus to the temple at the age of 12. We discuss what this story tells us about Jesus as a Young man entering upon adulthood and what he might have been going through and whether he fully appreciated his mission. He would go on as an adult to preach the Gospel of love. We benefit from his example.
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December 24, 2024
The Incarnation which we celebrate as a historical event is also to be celebrated as an event that occurs again and again in the hearts of men and women. The eternal Word becomes flesh and encamps among us.
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December 22, 2024
The fourth Sunday of Advent features the Visitation (Luke 1:39-55) in which Mary hurries to help her cousin Elizabeth. Both women play key roles in Jesus’ birth and ministry. The love they share bears witness to the divine presence within and between them. Our love reveals God’s presence in and among us.
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December 15, 2024
St. Paul, despite being in prison, commands the faith community in Philippi to do as he does “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.” (Philippians 4:4). Rejoicing is a powerful way to both express and enhance the joy we feel within. Paul reminds us that the Lord is near, for this, let us rejoice always.
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December 8, 2024
Discover the peace of Jesus Christ and answer the call to love and generosity as we await His glorious return with confidence and faith.
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December 1, 2024
On this first Sunday in Advent we focus on hope – the confident expectation and desire for a future good.
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