Included as one of the crowd
We gather tonight in what is described as fashionable or exclusive Mayfair, and in the smartest quar...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 25/12/2006
The lowest point
Though having lead a pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine ten years ago amidst signs of political hope...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 24/12/2006
Last Things - Judgement
Even back in the early 70s the theologian Norman Pittenger recalled hearing only one sermon on death...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 17/12/2006
The Mystery of Death
There are always mixed feelings on Remembrance Sunday when we honour and salute courage, heroism, st...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 12/11/2006
Desirability Gap?
'Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses…let us look to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our f...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 05/11/2006
More than we ask or deserve
In St. Mark's version of the gospel for today, Jesus' own town (Capernaum) is named, and more detail...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 22/10/2006
Gee, Thanks
"The atheist's most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful for something, but can'...
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Fr. Reginald Bushau| 24/09/2006
Windows of Redemption
Many of you probably heard the parable of the Good Samaritan at such an early age that, like me, you...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 10/09/2006
Of the earth - earthy
There are all sorts of subtle ways to assert our superiority over others, whether intellectually, fi...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 27/08/2006
Temples, tents, and car parks
I have a Welsh friend, whose name I really cannot pronounce, who wakes up each day and has to decide...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 20/08/2006
Divine Shiatsu
From today’s Prayer Book Collect ‘Increase in us true religion’
…published in the 17th...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 30/07/2006
Going further
'Pour into our hearts such love toward thee' we pray in today's collect, that desire to both possess...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 23/07/2006
Pray for me a sinner too
The tut tutting murmerers are looking down their respectable noses at the bad company Jesus is keepi...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 02/07/2006
‘I couldn’t have liked it more’
Noel Coward in explaining the inspiration behind his song ‘I went to a marvellous party’ talks of a ...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 25/06/2006
The rich are strangers
The Pharisees and their successors have been the target of the lead up to today’s Gospel passage fro...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 18/06/2006
'Confidence in our credo'
Trinity Sunday tends to be regarded as a time to rehearse dusty old doctrines about the nature of Go...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 11/06/2006
'Holding and moving'
People are inclined to think of Whitsun as a festival of the Holy Ghost…a jamboree of the Spirit, bu...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 04/06/2006
'Points of view'
I love the way the Church often provides two bites at the cherry, in her liturgical provision. The L...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 28/05/2006
Easter 3 BCP
'A little while' is a little phrase that punctuates today's Gospel. I am reminded of one of those fa...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 07/05/2006
Being led to pastures new
The driver and guide who showed me around Sri Lanka nearly ten years ago seemed to have extra powers...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 30/04/2006
St. George the fruitful branch
Today is our feast of title when we give thanks for the example, the martyrdom, the courage, and pat...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 23/04/2006
'Boundaries'
Rogationtide is these days an option in the Church of England and no longer part of Roman Catholic o...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 21/04/2006
Pointing to Resurrection
We are taught very early on that it is rude to point – though, rather dimly, I forget why, and can o...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 16/04/2006
The score
On returning from a sojourn in his house in France with mutual friends, I enquired of a friend how i...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 14/04/2006
The score
On returning from a sojourn in his house in France with mutual friend...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 14/04/2006
Painstaking patience and persistence
To the normal round of Lenten disciplines was added a remarkable Lenten gift for me this year – a so...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 09/04/2006
'Before Abraham was, I am.'
These are the remarkable words on Jesus' lips in his discourse in today's Gospel. 'Before Abraham wa...
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Fr. Simon Farrer| 02/04/2006
‘Unexpected delights flowing from irreverent risks’
Greetings from Hinde Street Methodist Church where, as Fr. Roderick has already mentioned I am based...
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The Revd. Cathy Bird| 26/03/2006
‘Reverence and glory’
In considering what to say this morning I have found myself carried back some twenty years. In my mi...
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Fr. Robert Harris | 19/03/2006
‘With pity not with blame’
From today’s Collect: ‘Almighty God, you see that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves’.<...
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Fr. Dominic Fenton| 12/03/2006
Bright the Vision Restoration: speaking truth: seizing the moment
‘Bright the vision that delighted once the sight of Judah’s seer’. I chose the title ‘Bright the Vis...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 05/03/2006
God’s generosity
There are many situations in life, which cause people to feel mildly aggrieved, and which are percei...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 12/02/2006
He will raise us up
Living in a so-called civilised society, and worshipping in a respectable part of Mayfair, means we ...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 05/02/2006
Calming our Fears
Sailing out into the peace of the Sea of Galilee and singing the hymn 'Dear Lord and Father of manki...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 29/01/2006
Healing our Divisions
On Tuesday I went to a lovely 70th birthday party for a piano teacher friend, who has occasionally g...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 22/01/2006
The Bridegrooms Feast
'In olden days a glimpse of stockings was looked on as something shocking, now, heaven knows, anythi...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 15/01/2006
His Wondrous Childhood
Regardless of alternative lifestyles and arrangements, or responding to a vocation to the monastic l...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 08/01/2006
A Holy 'Yes'
The history of today's Feast of the Circumcision of Christ dates back to the middle of the ...
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Fr. Roderick Leece| 01/01/2006