Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 30 March 2025. ‘Always there, always on the look-out, always ready to draw us close with His strength and reassurance.’
Archives for March 2025
Lent 3: All should repent from self-serving agendas
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 23 March 2025. ‘And yes, the holiness and purity of God is not the length of a measuring rod: it is the width of the universe. In this none may assume that there are aspects of their own lives that do not demand to be assessed and amended’
Lent 2: In it but not of it
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 March 2025. ‘And so they are urged to stand firm. To stand in their faith, their confidence in Jesus Christ, in the glory of the scriptures and the sacraments.’
Lent 1: The atoning sacrifice of Jesus
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 March 2025. ‘And so Paul stresses that if we believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, and confess with our mouths that this is so then we shall be saved.’
Ash Wednesday: It is His agenda that matters
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Wednesday 5 March 2025. ‘For us the starting point is not our own perception or convenience. It is the total and utter purity of God, without any suggestion of compromise.’
Lent Prose: a haunting hymn with its roots in 10th century Spain
‘Hear us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we have sinn’d against thee.’ This moving piece derives from a hymn composed in the 10th century by Mozarabs, Iberian Christians living under Islamic rule in Andalusia.
Diocesan Synod 2025
Reports plus video message from Bishop-Elect Nicholas Bundock in Uganda.
Epiphany 8 / Quinquagesima: The salvation of all people
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 March 2025. ‘So there could never be any kind of substitute for that personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. No amount of right thinking or fashionably up-to-date demonstrating on current issues was ever going to substitute for that faith.’
