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 Soundcloud website here
Copies of the last four Sundays Notice Sheets are also available to download.
I often find, when reading the Bible, that little phrases jump out at me as being highly pertinent, whether or not they are in the context of the passage. Here is one that has struck me for today: ‘There shall be a time of anguish, such as has never occurred since the nations first came into being.’
View sermonI come from a long line of storytellers.
View sermonIf I had not got up this morning only in the nick of time to get here for my first service at 8.30 am, I would have completely rewritten my sermon in the light of the news from yesterday of the attack in Pittsburgh on a Jewish Synagogue in Squirrel Hill which left 11 people dead, numerous people injured and a community in utter shock and, I would imagine, immense fear.
View sermonI suspect I’m not the only person here who remembers the debates about Sunday trading in the run up to allowing shops to open on Sundays in 1994.
View sermonI wonder if you’ve ever been poor?
View sermonThat lovely French cinema actress of the last century, Simone Signoret, is said to have commented, ‘Nostalgia is not what it used to be!’. What a woman of wisdom!
View sermonNow, I’m going to start by making a confession, I have to confess that a lot of music is a mystery to me.
View sermon“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it".
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