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Sermon preached on the fifth Sunday of Easter (6 May 2012) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel looks at God’s love and mercy through imagination and poetry.

Sermon preached on 2 May 2012 by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Richard Chartres
St Paul's Cathedral –350th anniversary of the 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer.

Sermon preached on the fourth Sunday of Easter (29 April 2012) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel looks at the 'conversation' we have with God using the three best known sets of text in the Church of England

Sermon preached on the First Sunday after Easter (15 April) by Prof Peter McCullough, Lay Canon
Professor Peter McCullough, Lay Canon, looks at 'Low Sunday', and why we should 'savour' the Easter peace in the weeks following all the drama of Holy Week.

Sermon preached on Easter Day (8 April 2012) by The Reverend Canon Mark Oakley
The Reverend Canon Mark Oakley looks at the modern gods of Gloss, Obese, Instantaneous and Punch, and how Christians should speak out for their faith and their belief in the true God.

Sermon preached on the fourth Sunday of Lent (18 March 2012) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel, Precentor, looks at the mystery surrounding Jesus' preaching in the temple at a young age

Sermon preached on the third Sunday of Lent (11 March 2012) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel looks at King Zedekiah's 'strategy and realism' and St Paul's 'opportunism and joy' and whether tragedy and comedy together make up the reality of the world.

Sermon preached on the third Sunday of Lent (11 March 2012) by The Reverend Dominic Barrington, Rector, St Peter and St Paul, Kettering
The Reverend Dominic Barrington looks at Christian mission and Christian ministry, believing: 'I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.'

Sermon preached on the third Sunday of Lent (11 March 2012) by The Reverend Andrew Hammond
The Reverend Andrew Hammond, Succentor, looks at a 'rampaging' Jesus and how his instruction to ‘destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up' was far from literal.

Sermon preached on the second Sunday of Lent (4 March 2012) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel discovers the strength of prophecy when combined with humility and how those of us who have faith in Christ Jesus should all ultimately be prophets.

Meditations preached on Ash Wednesday (22 February 2012) by Reverend Sarah Eynstone, Chaplain
On Ash Wednesday, Rev Sarah Eynstone held a series of four liturgies and meditations. In these, she contemplated how poverty, chastity and obedience can give us the freedom to grow into the full stature of our humanity through following in the way of Christ.

Sermon preached on the third Sunday before Lent (5 February 2012) by The Reverend Andrew Hammond, Succentor
The Reverend Andrew Hammond, Succentor, tackles the tangle that is Faith vs Works, and finds the knot had already been cut by St Paul.

Sermon preached on the fourth Sunday of Epiphany (29 January 2012) by The Right Reverend Michael Colclough, Canon Pastor
  The Right Reverend Michael Colclough, Canon Pastor, looks at a gift given to him by a South African widow and how it relates to the transforming effect of God’s love.

Sermon preached on the fourth Sunday of Epiphany (29 January 2012) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel discovers rich symbolism in the Book of Revelation and how giving our minds to Christ allows us to reach our full potential.

Sermon preached on the fourth Sunday of Epiphany (29 January 2012) by The Right Reverend Michael Colclough, Canon Pastor
  The Right Reverend Michael Colclough, Canon Pastor, looks at a gift given to him by a South African widow and how it relates to the transforming effect of God’s love.

Sermon preached at Westminster Cathdral (27 January 2012) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
As part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, St Paul's took Choral Evensong to the Catholic Westminster Cathedral. Here, the Reverend Canon Michael Hampel speaks about the continued draw of Evensong in a broad church.

Sermon preached on the third Sunday of Epiphany (22 January 2012) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel looks at the humour and teachings in the Book of Jonah - a sermon given on the third Sunday of Epiphany.

Sermon preached on New Year's Day (1 January 2012) by The Right Reverend Michael Colclough
The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus At Mattins. Readings: Genesis 17: 1-13; Romans 2:17-end Today we celebrate the naming and circumcision of Jesus – eight days after his birth. It shows that Mary and Joseph were devout Jews.

Sermon preached on The Second Sunday of Advent (4 December 2011) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
Isaiah 40: 1-11 Mark 1: 1-8 Today, on the Second Sunday of Advent, we consider the role of prophecy in bridging the gap between an old relationship with God based on law and a new relationship with God based on grace.

Sermon preached on The First Sunday of Advent (Sunday 27 November 2011) by The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel
Isaiah 1: 1-20 Matthew 21: 1-13 In Ancient Greece, in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, was inscribed the Greek aphorism, ‘Know thyself'. And, inevitably, down the ages, philosophers have debated what this great saying means and have posited several very attractive interpretations: do not let your boasts exceed what you are; the better you know yourself, the better you can understand other people; pay no attention to the opinion of the multitude.

Sermon preached on Remembrance Sunday (13 November 2011) by the Right Reverend Michael Colclough
"We will remember them”. Memories are both personal, individual and communal. Memories – both happy or sad, painful or joyful – are an important part of who we are as individuals and as communities. Memories, well used, hopefully inform our present decisions and give us courage to face the future. Someone very aptly said, "To remember is to be human” (Philip Luscombe).

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