The Presiding Bishop of the United States of America, the Most Revd Frank T Griswold, preached at the 11:30am Eucharist Sunday at St Paul's Cathedral, London, having some months ago accepted an invitation from the Very Revd John Moses, the Dean of St Paul's.

Readings: 1 Timothy 1: 12-17; Luke 15: 1-10

In this world of ours, beset by hostility and violence, mercy and compassion seem strangely out of place, if not altogether irrelevant. Today's readings invite us to ponder the surprising and insistent ways of God's mercy, and therefore to give root-room to the divine compassion in our own lives. In the context in which we find ourselves this invitation may seem remote or naive. And yet, compassion is God's very nature writ large in the person of Jesus, who is the embodiment of mercy, and calls us to be merciful, just as our heavenly Father is merciful.

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