Here’s one of those nativity sets that I was talking about in my Midnight Mass sermon the other night.
8 responses to “Passion Sunday Sermon”
-
Thank you for this excellent sermon.
-
Thanks for this sermon Kelvin. I now know more about spikenard than I did (which was nothing much!). And I also like the Gandhi reference.
-
Very thoughtful.. Love the Quote on the smell of justice.. Love etc. thank you!
-
According to my sources spikenard is a sharp smell, somewhere between mint and ginseng. Now you see, I had it more myrrh like, more heady. But I can see that mint and ginseng would be better at covering up rotting body smells.
-
Our associate priest (Bryan Owen) managed to get a spikenard candle for his sermon on Sunday
-
AND WHAT DID IT SMELL OF, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE?
-
As it’s the same family as Valerian, it may smell strongly of smelly feet – and (like Valerian) send cats into a state of frenzy…..
-
-
Previous Posts
-
O Adonai
O Lord and Ruler of the House of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush and gave him the law on Sinai: come, and redeem us with outstretched arms. Amen.The same one who is known as Lord, flickers in an unsteady fire – a fire extinguished neither by our own…
-
Advent
I am indebted to Maggi Dawn for reminding me of this poem which makes me quiver. It will be one of the readings at the Carol Service on Sunday evening at St Saviour's. The Scottish Vienna Horns will be playing, the choir have prepared carols, the church will be decorated and I will be singing…
-
O Sapienta
O Wisdom, who came from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from end to end and ordering all things mightily and sweetly: come, and teach us the way of prudence. I intended at one point to put some kind of Advent calendar on my blog, or on the church website, but somehow that did…
-
Music – what's playing on planet Holdsworth
Dusty Springfield: Son of a Preacher Man [Sing it sister!]Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mass in B Flat and Mass in D [Easter next year?]Jim Moray: Sweet England [Though I don't like Jamie Calum]The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Urban Spaceman [Produced by Paul McCartney – did you know?]Supertramp: Breakfast in America [No I don't know why either]Beatles: Here…
Leave a Reply