Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington on Sunday 10th December at St Mary’s, Garsington. Readings: Isaiah 40:1-11, Mark 1: 1-8. A few years ago Jonathan and I went to see the Welsh National Opera’s production of Tristan and Isolde. …
The Folly and Wisdom of Passchendaele
Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at the Commemoration of the Centenary of Passchendaele on Remembrance Sunday 12th November 2017 at St Mary’s Garsington Readings: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Matthew 25: 1-13. On the 10th November 1917 one of…
Cairns in the Fog
Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at All Saints’, Cuddesdon on All Saints’ Sunday 2017. Readings: 1 John 3: 1-3, Matthew 5: 1-12. The gentle season of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’ has this week taken a colder turn…
Living by the Golden Rule
Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at St Mary’s Garsington and St Giles’ Horspath on Sunday 29th October 2017. Readings: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 and Matthew 22: 34-46. One of the things I used to love doing as a child…
Embodied Angels
Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington in the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford on Sunday 29th October. Readings: Ecclesiastes chapter 11 and 2 Timothy 2:1-7. One of the many things which I love about this Chapel of Magdalen is…
The Coinage of Christ
Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at All Saints’ Cuddesdon on Sunday 22nd October 2017. Reading: Matthew 22: 15-22. Museums are wonderful places. You never know what you might come across. This summer after a hot morning lying on…
Drawn by the Gravitational Pull of Christ
Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at All Saints’ Cuddesdon on Sunday 8th October. Reading: Matthew 21:33-46. This week it was announced that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics had gone to three physicists in the US for their…
Where Angels Dare to Tread
Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at the Benefice Service in St Mary’s Church, Garsington on Sunday 1st October 2017. Do you believe in angels? I think I met an angel once. I was travelling round Europe on my…
Setting our bearings
Preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at the Welcome Service to the new staff and students of Ripon College Cuddesdon on Sunday 24th September at All Saints’, Cuddesdon. Readings: Philippians 1:21-30, Matthew 20: 1-16. ‘“Bilbo used often to say that…
Benedict’s guide to living well together
Sermon preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at St Mary’s, Garsington on 10th September 2017. Readings: Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20. Some of the funniest and most memorable moments I have had whilst staying as a guest at a Benedictine monastery…