On this page you will find a selection of the sermons preached at Southwark Cathedral by clergy from the Cathedral, Diocese of Southwark and further afield
Included with the transcripts are podcasts of the sermon which can also be found on the 
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Over the past three months we have perhaps become ever more familiar with the pomp and solemnity of state events with the proclamation of King Charles III and the funeral of Her Late Majesty the Queen. Memories of the seemingly endless stream of people paying their respects in Westminster Hall will live on in many hearts and minds.
View sermonThe air is crisp and quite cold and the sun rises gently behind the backdrop of smoking fires around which people are sitting and upon which some are cooking
View sermonI wonder what your reaction has been to the arrival of Gaia at the Cathedral? Although I had heard the experiences of other cathedrals and individuals I don’t think I was quite ready for the profound effect it has had on me or the vast majority of those coming to experience her.
View sermonMost people seem to know that I’m a huge fan of musicals, the big songs, the big numbers, the touch of romance and the tear jerker – I love all of it. But I actually have quite catholic tastes in music and what may come as some surprise to some of you is that in my youth I really liked Ska and 2-Tone music – and I still find it deeply evocative whenever I hear it.
View sermonWhen Mrs Alexander wrote her much loved hymn, ‘All things bright and beautiful’ in 1848 it was a very different world
View sermonI have to confess to some ambivalence when I realized that the Gospel passage set for today is Luke’s recounting of the dinner in Bethany, when Jesus and his friends come to the home of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus
View sermon‘Mary, why are you weeping? Mary, for whom are you looking? Why are you weeping; why are you searching?’
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