Sermons

 


  • Bishop Tom Brown. 19 February 2010

    Sermon from the Trinity Schools' Staff service. more»
    Chapel - the centre of school life.
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 10 February 2010

    The more perceptive of the students and staff who are returning may have noticed a small change that I made today to the words of the school prayer that we have just said together. Today we asked for more»
    Commencement Service 2010
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 13 October 2009

    I don't know how many times I can recall my mother saying, “Stand up straight! Hold your shoulders back!” For her, posture was a mirror of the soul. People learnt about you by looking at your posture. Nowadays we call it body language. more»
    What is your posture...
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 15 September 2009

    When I was young there was a singer called Bing Crosby who performed a song about “faraway places with strange sounding names.” Places that kept calling to the singer. more»
    O farther, farther sail...
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 26 August 2009

    It takes guts, it takes courage, to try to look the world in the face. Taking notice of the world is a courageous, moral act. more»
    Pay Attention...
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 11 August 2009

    Being gentle is to be considerate, kindly in disposition, tender and patient. more»
    Being gentle...
  • Chaplain Mr Ray Coats 28 July 2009

    Our community of faith has suffered loss. For some that loss is deeply personal. Aidan Konise died in Auckland last week. He was Head Boy here in 2005. His funeral will be held here in this chapel on Thursday afternoon. As is our tradition we have lit a candle in remembrance of him. more»
    Cornerstones...
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 9 June 2009

    This reading from Acts follows on from the reading Mr Kersten gave at the Trinity service about the beginning of the Christian church. It all sounds blissful. Living in harmony, sharing possessions, more»
    'Them' and 'Us'.
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 30 March 2009

    Except a grain of wheat is buried and is dead to the world there cannot be new life.   As we approach the last days before Easter these words of Jesus are a signal of his impending fate, more»
    There is always hope...
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 24 March 2009

    Welcome to this service this morning. We welcome those with questions, those with doubts, those with certainty of belief or unbelief. We welcome all from the diversity and comlexity that is Rathkeale more»
  • Bishop Tom Brown 9 February 2009

    Above all let us make the most of this time together today to recommit ourselves to the special character of the schools so that it may enrich the lives of those in the Trinity communities. May we also feel challenged as to how each us can uphold the special character in all its richness this year. more»
  • 18 November 2008

     The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want...I have everything I need. I am alive. I am at this school. I have parents who love me. I have friends. I have all I need to sustain life. I will not more»
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 16 September 2008

    My apologies to Mr McBride and the members of his department, but one of the significant learning experiences of my Secondary School education was the realization that Ray Coats and Mathematics were more»
  • Chaplain: Ray Coats 2 September 2008

    Throughout our lives we make and lose friends. The circumstances of loss are often beyond our control but at other times they come about because of our discovery of the real nature of that more»
    True friendship...
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 26 August 2008

    The lectionary reading from the Old Testament tells one of the stories of Moses, a man on the run because of committing an act of manslaughter. Having fled to a wilderness area called Horeb, one day more»
    Get along with everybody...
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 12 August 2008

    A remarkable story. One that stretches our credulity. To talk about feeding five thousand people with a few loaves and fishes. And have plenty left over. We could concentrate on the miraculous more»
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 24 June 2008

    There is a final prayer that we use in our Night Prayer service every Wednesday. It has become a favourite prayer for many of us. It talks of night and includes these words.'It is night after a long more»
    Matariki
  • Chaplain Ray Coats 18 June 2008

    There is a legend, a story, told by St Francis of Assisi . You may know him as the patron saint of animals. He lived in the 13th century. The town of Gubbio was being terrorized by a wolf who more»
    Ammaus...
  • Bishop Tom Brown 30 May 2008

    Have you been to the Weber Bros Circus? Everyone played more than role. It was very effective. When observed working the sideshows and ice cream stalls they were just like you and me.But when more»
    Trinity Schools' Service
  • Chaplain: Ray Coats 27 May 2008

    My wife and I like to travel and like many people we have stood on ancient walls. Walls like the Great Wall of China . Walls designed to keep people out or to protect those inside. When the black more»
    The Other Side Of The Wall ....
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