Bishop John Sherrington Homilies and Addresses

As we prepare to head home, we celebrate this Mass at Emmaus. In the Judean desert, we saw the bedouin who are nomads. They move from oasis to oasis looking for water and pasture for their goats and sheep. Today many people are spiritual nomads lo...Read more

Given at the Mass of the Resurrection in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday 5 The women came to the tomb early in the morning bearing their grief, thinking over the painful events of Good Friday and the emptiness of Holy Saturday. They ca...Read more

On the solemnity of All Saints, could there be a better place on earth to celebrate the Mass? We gather on the Mount of Beatitudes where Jesus taught his disciples the Way in which they must live as his followers and that he is the Way, the Truth ...Read more

In the Book of Jeremiah we read, 'A voice is heard in Ramah, lamenting and weeping bitterly: it is Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more' (Jer. 31:15). These words describe the lam...Read more

This evening three strands of this celebration come together and invite our reflection: First, the opening of the centenary celebrations to mark the death of the Founder, Venerable Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan next year; Second, the birt...Read more

At the end of the first week of Lent, when temptations will be stronger and resolutions possibly weakening, it is important to remind ourselves of the invitation which we heard on Ash Wednesday, 'repent and believe in the gospel'. These words ...Read more

My brothers and sisters in Christ, to be confirmed this evening, The readings from this Sunday's Mass help us to understand the call of Christ to each one of you and the mission to which he invites you in the sacrament of confirmation. You are ...Read more

Christmas is a time of miracles. As a parish priest, I often found that the few hours between the incredibly busy and somewhat frenetic Vigil Mass and the Midnight Mass were fairly quiet. It was a time of waiting. One bitterly cold year, I reme...Read more

'Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee'. These words open the deeply loved prayer which many generations of pilgrims have prayed as they walked to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham over the centuries since 1061. They have brou...Read more

This evening we entrust our departed brother priests to the mercy of God and pray that the angels will lead them into paradise and to the company of the martyrs. May the choirs of angels welcome them home. There they will join Lazarus, who is poor...Read more

It is good to be speaking about God's mercy at the Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden, a holy place to which pilgrims have travelled for over a thousand years. When we are in need of help, it is so often to our mother that we look. In the gospel (J...Read more

We gather in this historic and wonderful Abbey Church of St Alban, the proto-martyr of England, for Evensong during our pilgrimage of mercy. The timing of our pilgrimage is providential as we recall that last Wednesday, Pope Francis and Archbishop...Read more

I visited Brazil in September in response to La Palavra Viva's invitation to teach for a week in their School of Evangelisation in Curvelo.  My theme, which was to be developed during the week was Evangelisation and Virtue, which would examine ...Read more