Cathedral Notes – February 2016
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Cathedral Notes February 2016
Sunday Eucharist Sermon – 24 January 2016
Preacher: The Very Rev’d Frank Nelson, Dean
In April last year, while on holiday in South Africa, Christine and I had a few days in the Addo Elephant National Park. My first visit there was as […]
Sunday Eucharist Sermon – ‘They have no wine’
Preacher: The Rev’d Jenny Wilson, Canon Precentor
In the name of God, creating, redeeming, sanctifying, … Amen.
“They have no wine.”
Wine symbolises life.
“The life source is gone.” The source of life, of joy, of exuberance, has dried […]
Sunday Eucharist Sermon – 10 January 2015 – The Great South Land of the Holy Spirit – Really?
The Great South Land of the Holy Spirit – Really?
Preacher: The Rev’d Dr Lynn Arnold AO, Assistant Priest
May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be worthy in your sight, O […]
Choral Eucharist Sermon – 3 January 2016 – Epiphany of our Lord
‘Unwanted Gifts and Epiphany’
Preacher: The Very Rev’d Frank Nelson, Dean
On Christmas Day I began my sermon by gasping at the thirty-seven billion dollar spend by Australians in December. Today I begin with an equally astounding, […]
Sunday 10.30am Sermon – Christmas 1
Preacher: The Rev’d Canon Jenny Wilson, Canon Precentor
In the name of God, creating, redeeming, sanctifying, … Amen.
I love the nativity story. In recent days we’ve heard it, read it, sung it, gazed at it. We’ve […]
Archbishop’s Christmas Sermon – ‘GOD’S STRANGE WAY TO PEACE’
Preacher: The Most Reverend Dr Jeffrey Driver, Archbishop of Adelaide
This year again we have been confronted with the savagery of people who believe they have a right to inflict their view of God on others, […]
The Dean’s Christmas Sermon – ‘The Price of Christmas’
Preacher: The Very Reverend Frank Nelson, Dean of St Peter’s Cathedral
Thirty-seven billion dollars! I was staggered when I heard that figure given the other day – the amount of retail spending in Australia over the […]
Funeral Homily: John Bannon
Preacher: The Very Rev’d Frank Nelson, Dean
In a few days’ time Australia, like much of the world, will stop for Christmas. For those who come to churches and cathedrals like this one it will be […]
Choral Eucharist Sermon – 20 December 2015 – Advent 4
Preacher: The Very Rev’d Frank Nelson, Dean
“The God of Israel is a God of shimmering surprises, of outlandish innovation and renewal.” So begins one commentator’s words on Micah 5: 2. (Texts for Preaching, Year C: […]