Weekly sermon podcasts are recorded by clergy and laity across the diocese.
You may download and use these as part of your Sunday service if you don’t have anyone to preach, or use them as a weekly reflection.
If you’re putting together an act of worship because of last minutes changes to the rota owing to illness or other emergency circumstances, then as well as this podcast page, you may find it helpful to look at the Worship Toolkit page.
This week’s podcast:
You can also find a series of reflections for Holy Week on this page.
Trinity 17_2026
Readings: Philippians 2.1-13 Matthew 21.23-32 Sermon: Today’s Gospel reading from Matthew Chapter 21 is set right near the end of Jesus’ ministry, the day after he had upset the tables
Trinity 16_2026
Readings: Philippians 1.21-end Matthew 20.1-16 Sermon: When we hear the story of the labourers in the vineyard it is only at the end that we have to question whether or
Trinity 15_2026
Readings: Romans 14.1-12 Matthew 18.21-35 Sermon: As I began to read this Sunday’s Gospel reading in preparation for offering you some reflection, my mind began to fill with remembrances of
Creation in Christ
Readings: Colossians 1.15-20 Matthew 8.23-27 Sermon: It doesn’t seem so very long ago that the environment and creation barely got a mention in church services, apart from the annual Harvest
Trinity 13
Readings: Romans 12.9-end Matthew 16.21-end Sermon: The gospel reading, taken from Matthew 16:21-28, is a passage often repeated – In part for the “get behind me, satan” comment towards Peter,
Trinity 12_2026
Readings: Romans 12.1-8 Matthew 16.13-20 Sermon: Have you ever been asked a question that changed everything? Not a question with a right or wrong answer. A question that revealed something
Trinity 11_2026
Readings: Romans 11.1-2a, 29-32 Matthew 15.[10-20] 21-28 Sermon: How do we want to be remembered? I am always fascinated by the inscriptions on gravestones. In one of my parishes I
Trinity 10_2026
Readings: Romans 10.5-15 Matthew 14.22-33 Sermon: In the midst of one of the driest and hottest summers for decades many are drawn to water to cool off, to enjoy a
Trinity 9_2026
Readings: Romans 9.1-5 Matthew 14.13-21 Sermon: Come without money or price. This is an invitation from God. Good news – gospel – from God. What a relief! Or is it?
Trinity 8_2026
Readings: Romans 8.26-end Matthew 13.31-33, 44-52 Sermon: Our Gospel reading this week is the third and final reading in a three part series of Sunday readings about Jesus’ so called