Monthly Archives: April 2010

"I will trust in the Lord…"

a song gifted to us by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove W hen the writer and new monastic Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove was with us back in November, he taught us a song from the slave church tradition that his own church in Durham loves

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Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

a sermon preached by Jamie Howison on Easter Day A lleluia Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia! “…and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was

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From Good Friday

A Good Friday liturgy is always a strangely spare event in a sacramental church.  How often do we gather and not celebrate communion together?  And where is the colour, the candles and incense, the pieces of visual art that usually

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the scum of the earth… a sermon for Good Friday

a sermon preached at saint benedict’s table by Chris Holmes I saiah is the fifth Gospel, so says the Christian tradition. One of the principal reasons for this is the presence of the four servant songs. A few minutes ago

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