Author Archives: Gerry Lynch

Life Punishes the Late—Adapt or Die

This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. The old order is dead. Adapt or die. Continue reading

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A Faith for this World?: Sermon Preached on 16th February 2025 (Third Sunday before Lent)

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. Continue reading

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The Times Are Changing: Sermon Preached on 9th February 2025 (Fourth Sunday before Lent)

When you lose your illusions about this world, you might find all you dared hope about the world to come is true. Continue reading

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Never Mind the Bishops!: Sermon Preached on Candlemas (Sunday 2nd February 2025)

Renewal is unlikely to come from the top of the Church. Good leaders will almost certainly emerge as a result of renewal at the grassroots, not the other way round. Continue reading

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You Couldn’t Make It Up: Sermon Preached on 25th December 2024 (Christmas Day)

Imagine an obviously pregnant woman walked into your local and said she was still a virgin – she’d just been overshadowed by the Holy Spirit. Continue reading

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True Light and Deep Darkness: Sermon Preached on 24th December 2024 (Midnight Mass)

We live in a society surrounded by all sorts of light we have generated ourselves. But our souls are as dark as they ever have been. Continue reading

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Duty: Sermon Preached on 22nd December 2024 (Fourth Sunday of Advent)

Duty is a very unfashionable idea, but no society can function well without it, and in performing our duties we touch God’s nature. Continue reading

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You Brood of Vipers!: Sermon Preached on 15th December 2024 (Third Sunday of Advent)

Are you a viper? Have you, in the course of this year, exhibited any snake-like characteristics? Continue reading

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Requiem for a Dream

The EU is is dying as people mostly die, slowly and little by little, a cancelled election, an exiting member, some reimposed border controls… Continue reading

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The End of Our Era?: Sermon Preached on 8th December 2024 (Second Sunday of Advent)

We are living at the end of an era, something that always brings chaos in its wake. Yet all this feels a relief as much as a source of fear. Continue reading

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