You will find here the Sunday sermons. Each sermon is posted in English and in French.
February, 9th 2025Isaiah 6 :1-8, 9-13; I Corinthians 15 :1-1; Luke 5 :1-11 Have you ever caught wild animals? Have you ever fished or hunted? How did you set about it? Apart from a few attempts at angling and fishing (which is more like picking fish up than going on a hunting safari!) I have…
Feast of the Presentation / Candlemas February 2, 2025 Malachi 3:1-4 Hebrews 2:14-18 Luke 2:22-40 This year, the Feast of Candlemas – or the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple – falls on a Sunday. It always falls on the fortieth day after Christmas – the second of February. It seems that the early Church…
Epiphany III January 26, 2025 Nehemiah 8:1-10 I Corinthians 12:12-31 Luke 4:14-21 Think about the first time you came across the Bible. Was it through a parent or relative? Was it in Sunday School? Was it in church? Was it at a secular school? Did you first think of the Bible as a book…
Epiphany II January 19, 2025 Isaiah 62:1-5 Ps 36:6-11 I Corinthians 12:1-11 John 2:1-11 Lack of wine can have dramatic consequences, as we well know at Saint-Esprit! I’m not talking about our receptions (I don’t think we’ve ever ran out of wine), but about what happened in 1919. At that time, supported by secular and…
Epiphany I | The Baptism of ChristJanuary 13, 2013Isaiah 43: 1-7 Acts 8 : 14-17 Luke 3 :15-17, 21-22 When I was first ordained, I used to baptize about four babies per month. I was serving in a poor parish in Birmingham, England when it was The Thing To Do to get your child baptized.…
Christmas I December 29,2024 Isaiah 61:10-62:3 Galatians 3:23-4:7 John 1:1-10 There are many traditions surrounding Christmas which have to do with flowers and foliage. We probably know about most of them – our traditional Christmas trees and wreaths for example, but there are many others also, from all around the world. We sing Christmas carols…
Midnight Mass – Baptism of Michelle Smith December 24th, 2024 If you are watching us today, live or in replay, it is somehow thanks to the dark period of the pandemic. When we couldn’t gather in the flesh, the church decided to develop its virtual presence. We were able to do so thanks to many…
ADVENT IV | December 22nd, 2024 Micah 5:2-5a Hebrews 10:5-10 Luke 1:39-45, (46-55) Canticle 15 (or 3) Today is the fourth Sunday in Advent, and it has been a long season of Advent waiting and hoping. We are so close to Christmas that we can hardly wait for Jesus to be born, and we probably…
December 17, 2024 It must have been quite a year to live in Paris! Together with the usual round of yearly events, the city hosted the Olympic games for the first time in one hundred years, and earlier this month, the reopening of the gothic cathedral of Notre Dame. The rebirth of that cathedral certainly…
Advent IIDecember 2, 2024Baruch 5:1-9, Philippians 1:3-11, Luke 3:1-6 How are you? I think we’re pretty patient people here? What do you think? Our 11:15am services, for example, would be quite early if they actually started at 11:15. But everyone waits patiently, and during this wait before the service, we take the opportunity to chat,…