Sermon preached by the Rt Revd John Pritchard at his inauguration:
HERO, SAINT OR SERVANT (both Church and Bishop)
Well, so far so good.When I got to the great west door I was remembering Archbishop Stuart
Blanche who when he got to a similar point, and was about to knock boldly on the door with his
pastoral staff, whispered to his chaplain: ‘Are you sure we’ve got the right place?’
Having established that I was indeed expected, you might be wondering ‘what sort of bishop are we
getting?’
full text here:
InaugurationSermon
Sermon preached by Nicholas King SJ on Trinity Sunday:
You do me a very great honour in inviting me here to preach for your patronal feast, and I thank you for it. There is, however, something of a problem in attempting to talk about the Holy Trinity, namely that it is quite difficult to do so without lapsing into heresy; for one can end up either by talking as though there are three gods or by saying that there is indeed one God, but that it has three modes or masks or different faces, and the Church has discovered down the millennia that we have to steer between those two opposed shoals on which we might get ship-wrecked.
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