A Whitsunday address

I thought it possible that some readers might like to see, either for the first time or again,  an address I gave during Evensong at St Hugh's College, Oxford at Whitsun 2014: 

 

Here we are on the first of the great Christian festivals to have been abolished by the British secular state. Until 50 years ago, Whitsun - which everyone called it then - was a national holiday. Pentecost was a technical term, explained to me in the Scripture classes we still had in those days.

 

Tomorrow would ha...