Earthlings first and last
An extract from the Dean's sermon for Earth Sunday, 22 April 2018. We are children of Earth, fashioned from the Earth by the creative...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Apr 14, 20181 min read
Better than silver or gold
Extract from the Dean's sermon from Sunday, 15 April 2018. Sometimes it will be easy to have faith and sometimes it will be hard....
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Dean Greg Jenks
Apr 3, 20181 min read
April 2018 @ Christ Church Cathedral
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Dean Greg Jenks
Mar 31, 20181 min read
Witnesses to transformation
An extract from the Easter sermon of the Dean Despite the gaps and inconsistences in their stories our witnesses agree on a simple, yet...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Mar 30, 20181 min read
Rethinking the cross
What matters about the cross is that God honoured the faith of Jesus, and God did not allow violent political forces to stamp out his...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Mar 29, 20185 min read
At the Supper of the Lord
Maundy Thursday Exodus 12;1-4.. 11-14 Ps 116:1-2. 11-18, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, John 13:1-17, 31b – 35 + In the name of the Father...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Mar 28, 20182 min read
The Easter Mysteries
From next Sunday's pew bulletin ... It is an ancient Christian tradition to speak about the ‘Easter mysteries’. We can trace this...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Mar 17, 20181 min read
When words fail
An extract from the Dean's sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Lent (18 March 2018). The gospel of John offers us a third poetic image, and...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Mar 15, 20182 min read
Mindful of the Passion
From the Fifth Sunday of Lent—next Sunday—there is a discernible change of tone in our liturgies as we draw closer to the events of Holy...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Mar 10, 20185 min read
Turning to the cross
180311 Lent 4B Numbers 21.4-9 & Psalm 107.1-3, 17-22 Ephesians 2.1-10 John 3.14-21 [video] IMAGE AT LEFT: A bronze serpent that evokes...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Mar 4, 20181 min read
The cleansing of the church
We stand alongside Jesus, the Jewish prophet from Galilee as we call on our religious institutions to walk the talk, to serve always the...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Feb 24, 20185 min read
Covenant faithfulness
A sermon by the Revd Camellia Flanagan at Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton on Sunday, 25 February 2018. Lent 2 Genesis 17:1–7,15–16...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Feb 17, 20181 min read
Turning to life
An extract from the Dean's sermon on the First Sunday of Lent, 18 February 2018. The concept at the heart of repentance is turning. We...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Feb 11, 20181 min read
Gimpsing the way things are
Extracts from the Dean's sermon on the Last Sunday after Epiphany (11 February 2018). During the Epiphany season we reflect on those...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Jesus Then and Jesus Now
LENT, the period of 40 days prior to Easter, is a time when people like to make an extra effort to improve our personal spiritual...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Feb 4, 20182 min read
Discernment ... wisdom ... conversion
Extracts from the sermon preached at the Discernment Synod Eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday, 4 February 2018. Here today we...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Feb 3, 20182 min read
New Dean of Grafton Installed
Text of the response by the Eighth Dean of Grafton to the community welcome at the conclusion of the installation and commissioning...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Jan 28, 20182 min read
Rainbow faith in an ancient land
Excerpts from a sermon on the Australia Day weekend. Over this holiday weekend it is timely to reflect on what it means to be Australian,...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Jan 20, 20181 min read
The God who goes fishing
An extract from the sermon for Sunday, 21 January 2018 ... Today we are glimpsing an epiphany moment indeed. God has gone fishing, and...
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Dean Greg Jenks
Jan 13, 20185 min read
The God who calls
A sermon for the Second Sunday after Epiphany 2 (Year B) 14 January 2018 1Samuel 3.1-10 & Psalm 139.1-5, 12-18; 1 Corinthians 6.12-20;...
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