Choral Eucharist - All Saints
The 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 sermonOn 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
The Last Sunday after Trinity - Choral Eucharist
I 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 sermonChoral Eucharist - Harvest Festival
Most 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 sermonRequiem Eucharist for Her Late Majesty The Queen
When Mrs Alexander wrote her much loved hymn, ‘All things bright and beautiful’ in 1848 it was a very different world
View sermonChoral Eucharist - The Fifth Sunday after Trinity
I 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 sermonEaster Day - Choral Eucharist
‘Mary, why are you weeping? Mary, for whom are you looking? Why are you weeping; why are you searching?’
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