Holy Trinity Church

Anglican worship in Geneva

Sermons on Psalms

Sermon for the second Sunday of Epiphany – 14th January 2024

Title: The mission to follow Christ without unwilling prejudices. Today we are celebrating the second Sunday of Epiphany after we remembered last Sunday the visit of the wise men to the Christ Child and the importance of Jesus’s physical manifestation to the Gentiles. In different ways, we are regularly following people, leaders, creators of public opinion. When I was a child, I…

Sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Epiphany – 21st January 2024

Transformations One of the joys in England which takes place in the long, dark period between Christmas and early February is the pantomime.  It is a quintessentially English style of play, usually based on one of the classic fairy stores such as Little Red Riding Hood or Jack and the Beanstalk, and characterised with its own very particular style of humour which…

Sermon on the Feast of the Epiphany – celebrated 7 January 2024

Taking another road Today we are celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany which in the Eastern Church focuses on the baptism of Christ whereas in the West, it focuses mainly but not exclusively on the visit of the Magi to Jesus and the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. It also brings the traditional twelve days of Christmas celebrations to an end…

Sermon for Sunday 10th December 2023 – the Second Sunday of Advent

One of my favourite memories of Christmas Eve when I was a child, was polishing silver.  It may seem an implausible pleasure but it is true.  My mother had about six silver bowls, some small and others medium-sized which were carefully stored away during the year.  On Christmas Eve, they would be ceremoniously brought out of the cupboard, wrapped in last year’s…

Remembrance Sunday – Sunday 12th November 2023

One of the most memorable stories in the Old Testament is that of Jonah and the whale.  But sometimes because of its powerful imagery we may overlook its deeper meaning for us.   For Jonah is someone who hates people other than his own people,  and he does not welcome the word of a universal God who has a love for the whole…

Sermon for Sunday 8 October 2023 – 18th Sunday after Trinity

Where there is no vision, the people perish: But he that keepeth the law, happy is he’. (Proverbs 29.18 KJV) Today is a milestone in the life of Holy Trinity as we are launching our Vision and Strategy, setting our plan for our church and chaplaincy for the next three years. It has been some time in gestation as we have discussed,…

Sermon on Sunday 30th April 2023

 Recognizing, listening, and following the voice of our shepherd as the pathway towards a really meaningful and everlasting life. As you know, every year Easter reveals the divine purpose to initiate a new resurrected world. As Daphne reminded us on Easter Sunday, Jesus is inviting us to celebrate with deep joy that He is risen from the dead. The cross of death…

Sermon on the Feast of the Epiphany 8th January 2023

Sermon for Holy Trinity on the Feast of the Epiphany   8 January 2023 at 9am and 10.30am (Transferred from 6 January) Texts: Isaiah 60.1-6, Psalm 72.1-5; Ephesians 3.1-12; Matthew 2.1-2 I had a slightly frustrating experience just before Christmas when I had an afternoon visit planned to take holy communion to one of our congregation.  Having failed to take with me one…