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23 December 2022

Shcho to za Predivo: What a wonder! Glad the news I bring you

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Every so often I find a carol or hymn in another language that appears not to have a translation that would enable it to be sung in English....
27 April 2022

The Great Martyr: Sermon on Low Sunday and the Feast of St George, Parish Church of St George, Hanover Square, London W1, 24th April 2022

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Christ is risen! So little is known of St George that in the 1960s his feast was downgraded in the Calendar of the Roman Church and it was e...
14 March 2022

Music: Prayer for Ukraine

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Here are again are the Latin-script transliteration and my attempt at a verse translation of the Prayer for Ukraine, Ukraine's national ...
10 March 2022

Glory to Jesus Christ: The Church in Ukraine and its faithfulness to the Eucharistic Lord, Homily for the Sodality of the Blessed Sacrament, Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Maiden Lane, 3rd March, 2022

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 + Glory to Jesus Christ! Father Alan, whose birthday it is today - and we wish you many congratulations - asked me some weeks ago to preach...
02 March 2022

The Prayer for Ukraine

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Visiting Lviv to give a lecture at the Ukrainian Catholic University in 2016, I was very moved to hear this sung in the midst of a concert o...
18 September 2021

To You, O Lord: the Direction of the Liturgy in Christ - Homily at the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, London Eucharistic Octave, Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Covent Garden, 16 September 2021

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It is claimed that the word Liturgy means the work ( ergon ) of the laos , the people of God. But its true sense is that of a public service...
14 September 2021

Reflection on St John Chrysostom on the Anniversary of his Death, for the Eastern Christians Prayer Group, Fellowship & Aid to the Christians of the East

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READING - Ephesians 4.1-7, 11-13 I, Paul, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been call...