Sermon preached in Lincoln Cathedral by The Very Revd Bob Hardy at the Sung Eucharist on Sunday 9th October 2011, 16th Sunday after Trinity It never ceases to amaze me that one usually discovers something new in the Scriptures each time one reads them.  Take today’s Gospel: the Parable of the Invitations to the Wedding.  I’d always regarded it as one story but all the commentators remark that it’s best understood, if we take the two parts of the story ...Read more →

Sermon preached in Lincoln Cathedral by Subdean, The Revd Canon Alan Nugent at the Sung Eucharist on Sunday 2nd October 2011 Presentation of a Gideon Bible The other week I saw something unusual. In a fairly modern Church in the port of Palau in northern Sardinia there was the reserved sacrament in a beautiful side chapel and yet, and this is what was so unusual, I don’t think I have seen it before, there was a copy of the Bible ...Read more →

The tradition of daily morning and evening prayer is one inherited from the Jewish tradition of both Temple and Synagogue, with which Jesus himself was familiar.  By the fifth century this had been adopted in a modified and extended form, by communities of monks and nuns, as well as by the bishops and clergy of cathedrals. The canons of Lincoln celebrate morning and evening prayer daily, continuing this long tradition.  Morning prayer is recited at St Hugh’s Shrine at 7.30 ...Read more →