Adelphoi,

Hear Thomas Cranmer live!

The first official Homily of the Church of England, written by Archbishop Cranmer, is on Holy Scripture.

You can hear this live in two parts (each about 10 mins) on the web site of Christ Church, Biddulph.

To test your concentration I made one error in the 2nd half when I changed the pronunciation of one word by leaving out of the original noun one letter, a. In so doing I created another perfectly good word, but not the original. Can you spot it?

Please go and listen. It is a sermon with some moving and eloquent parts. Further, it gives a very good insight into how the English Reformers viewed the relation of ordinary people to sacred Scripture in the 1540s.

The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon