You will find here the Sunday sermons. Each sermon is posted in English and in French.

Sermon, Veille de Noël | Christmas Eve

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Christmas EveDecember 24, 2025 The ancient world’s epics start with a dramatic appeal to a transcendent authority – as if the story to be told is too huge to be told by a human voice alone. Homer’s Iliad begins with the words: ‘Sing, goddess, the rage of Achilles’. Virgil’s Aeneid begins with the words: ‘I…

Sermon , le 4e dimanche de l’Avent | Advent IV

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Advent IVDecember 21, 2025Isaiah 7:10-16Romans 1:1-7Matthew 1:18-25 When I was a child, I developed a somewhat all-consuming passion for stick insects… I had several species in terrariums in my room until the day I learned (thanks to my sister’s screams) that some of them had escaped, causing a domestic commotion! Stick insects have several surprising…

Sermon | 2e dimanche de l’Avent | Advent II

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Advent IIDecember 7, 2025Isaiah 11 :1-11    Romans 15 :4-13    Matthew 3 :1-12 Joris mentioned last week that one of the major themes of Advent is watchfulness – a sort of heightened awareness of the circumstances and events that are around us, with the expectation that if we look carefully, we will see signs both of God…

Sermon | 1er dimanche de l’Avent | Advent I

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Advent INovember 30, 2025Isaiah 2:1-5 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24 :36-44 How do we initially react when we hear the words “judge” and “judgment”? It depends greatly on our personal experience (even professional experience, for some) with courts, justice, and judges. It also depends on how we have used the justice system. A defendant, a victim,…

Sermon, Christ Roi | Pentecost XXIV

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Christ the KingNovember 23, 2025Jeremiah 23 :1-6   Colossians 1 :11-20   Luke 23 :33-43 Having spent the majority of my life as a British ‘subject’ of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II, it felt very strange to sing God save the King for the first time, and to see His Majesty’s name on my English tax forms. There…

Sermon | 23e dimanche après la Pentecôte | Pentecost XXIII

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Pentecost XXIIINovember 16, 2025Isaiah 65:17-25 ; II Thessalonians 3, 6-13 ; Luke 21:5-19 The French and American social security and welfare systems were created in the wake of enormous crises: situations that were nothing short of apocalyptic. The family, social, political, and economic devastation of the Great Depression prompted President Roosevelt to sign the Social…

Sermon, dimanche de la Toussaint | All Saints Sunday

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All Saints SundayNovember 2, 2025Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18   Ephesians 1:11-23   Luke 6:20-31 About twenty years ago, the first filmed documentary on the life and work of Dorothy Day appeared. It is famously titled, ‘Don’t call me a saint’. The title is part of a longer quotation attributed to her: “Don’t call me a saint. When they…