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	The Aumbry Door

Bp. Andrew St. Johns Sermon at Rev. Tim Gaden's Induction - 23 rd April 2001
"... may I say how good it is to have the name of Gaden associated with this diocese once again ..."
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Easter 3    Rev Tim Gaden - (29 April 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
The rhythm of eucharistic life
"Imagine how happy a new vicar in a new parish is to find this in his first Gospel . . ."

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Easter 4    Rev Tim Gaden - (6 May 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Patronal Festival
Peter and the Beloved Disciple
". . . If we learn those lessons, become less busy and forgive more, then I predict that we will have an awful lot to celebrate when the next patronal festival comes around."

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Easter 5    Rev Tim Gaden - (13 May 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
"One of the things that I would most like to have, but never will, is the experience of a convert-someone who once wasn't a Christian, and then had their life changed. . . ."

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Easter 7    Rev Tim Gaden - (21 May 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Thank God I'm an Anglican
"Once a year, I have been in the habit of celebrating 'Thank God I'm an Anglican' Sunday . . . ."

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Trinity Sunday    Rev Tim Gaden - (10 June 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Rublev's Icon of the Trinity
"To confess belief in the Trinity, is to confess that Christians are people committed to living in relationships made up of equal, loving and loved individuals."

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Third Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (24 June 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
The interpretations of Legion are Legion
"Imagine that you are Christians in the Second century, gathering to hear today's Gospel, the story of the Gadarene Swine. . . ."

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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (8 July 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Wiping the Dust off our feet
"I don't need to stand up here of a Sunday and tell you how to suck eggs. . . ."

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Sixth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (15 July 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
The Good Samaritan
"Like most teenagers, my father often drove me mad. . . ."

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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (22 July 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Mary Magdalene
"All Christians who like to think about their faith should chew on this one and come to some critical position on the dilemma it presents . . . ."

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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (29 July 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Jesus teaching about prayer
"In this morning's Gospel we hear it from the horse's mouth. . ."

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Feast of the Transfiguration 2001    Rev Tim Gaden - (5 August 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
The Trasnfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
"... Jesus does not sneak away behind a rock, nip into a phone box, only to re-emerge as a shining Superman . . ."

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Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (16 August 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
How Christians are meshed with eternity.
". . . I am dressed in a very fashionable set of fourth century roman street wear. No restaurant in fourth century Rome would be closed to me. . ."

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Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost     Helen Creed - (29 August 2001 - 10 am)
Healing on the Sabbath.
". . . 'I have spent my life in a state of . . . ' How would you finish that sentence? . . ."

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Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (2 September 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
The Motives of Charity.
"Suppose . . . you saw the vicar digging in the garden. What do you think he could be up to? . . ."

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Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (9 September 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
St Cyprian and Martyrdom Ancient and Modern
". . . When you stand up to sing "Take up your cross the Saviour said" what do you think you are doing? . . ."

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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (16 September 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Resisting the evils of the week
". . . An evil act like this is like a stone thrown into a still pond. . . . "

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Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (30 September 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Dives and Lazarus
"Jesus has a lot to say about money and wealth. . . . "

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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost    Rev Tim Gaden - (16 September 2001 - 8 and 10 am)
Resisting the evils of the week
". . . An evil act like this is like a stone thrown into a still pond. . . . "
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