
Lent 5 2024
This sermon was preached on the 17th of March 2024, the fifth Sunday in Lent, in the Anglican Parish of Kalamunda-Lesmurdie Text: John 12.20-33 I’m going to begin this sermon with a reading from the Confessions of Saint Augustine: “Anxiety was making my heart palpitate and perspire with the destructive fever of worry, when I passed through a Milan street and noticed a destitute beggar. Already drunk, I think, he was joking and laughing. I groaned, and spoke with the friends accompanying me about the many sufferings that result from our follies; in all our strivings … we ourselves had no goal other than to reach such a carefree cheerfulness. That beggar was already there before us, and perhaps we would never achieve it. ...