Sermon preached by the Revd Dr Margaret Whipp:
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”
Today we wear red to honour St. Bartholomew, apostle and martyr. Throughout the year, the feasts of the martyrs in our liturgical calendar jolt us back into a remembrance of the cost and seriousness of Christian faith. So today on a quiet Bank Holiday weekend in England we honour the death of an obscure disciple who lived as a witness to the resurrection and died a horrible death, according to tradition, where he was martyred by being flayed alive. A very bloody end, even by apostolic standards.
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