Sermon for the 7th Sunday after Trinity: ‘Be still and know that I am God’: preached at the Eucharist, Sherborne Abbey, on Sunday, 18 July 2021 by The Reverend Robert Green. (Ephesians 2: 11 – 22; Mark 6: 30 – 34, 53 – 56) There is an old adage which…

Sermon for the 6th Sunday after Trinity: John the Baptist and Herod the Tetrarch: preached at the Eucharist, Sherborne Abbey, on Sunday, 11 July 2021 by Canon Charles Mitchell-Innes. (Ephesians 1: 3 – 14; Mark 6: 14 – 29) Today we have our sights on two towering figures of 1st…

Dream dreams: a sermon for the Parish Eucharist on the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, our patron saint, preached in Sherborne Abbey on Sunday 4 July 2021 by the Reverend Lesley McCreadie, Team Vicar. (Galatians 4: 1 – 5; Luke 1: 39 – 45) Many Anglicans are a little…

Sermon for the 3rd Sunday after Trinity: Muzzling the raging storm: preached at the Eucharist, Sherborne Abbey on Sunday, 20 June 2021 by The Reverend Christopher Huitson. (2 Corinthians 6: 1 – 13; Mark 4: 35 – 41) The skipper of a tramp steamer was a stickler for the facts.…

Sermon for the 1st Sunday after Trinity, preached at Sherborne Abbey on Sunday 6 June 2021 by the Reverend Christopher Huitson. (2 Corinthians 4: 13 – 5:1; Mark 3: 20 – end.) I heard an interesting variation of the half full, half empty glass of the optimist or pessimist the…

A sermon for Holy Communion, preached on Wednesday, 2 June 2021 by Canon Charles Mitchell-Innes. On a walk through the Dorset countryside yesterday, some friends and I found ourselves on a track rather romantically named Gipsy’s Drove.  The name and the rural scenery put me in mind of the old term…