Sermon preached by the Bishop of Clogher, the Rt Rev Dr Michael Jackson at the Confirmation Service on Sunday 18th February:
2 Corinthians 3.12-4.2 and St Luke 9.28-43
Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.
I had never heard of ALISTAIR HUMPHRIES until one day I heard him being interviewed when I was listening to the car radio. What emerged in the course of the interview was that he had cycled round the world in four years. To complete this epic journey, he had needed three bicycles; five wheels; twenty tyres and he had quite a tale to tell of adventures he had had and people he had met. He was innocent enough to tell two stories against himself ? and he was happy enough to let anyone listening laugh at him because he had the good sense to laugh at himself. The first thing he told was that, as he left home setting out, his mother called him back, shouting after him that he had forgotten his bicycle helmet. Hardly the best of a start for someone hoping to cycle round the world! The second thing was that, as he left the village in which he lived, he took the wrong road. Again, hardly the best way to begin! BUT there he was, four years later, telling the tale of how he had cycled round the world and it was a magnificent achievement.
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