Candlemas
According to a news report a couple of weeks ago last December was the darkest on record for Moscow with only six minutes of sunshine throughout the whole month
View sermonHere you can find Sermons from some of the special and civic services - including Holy Week and Easter and Carol services - which take place at the Cathedral
Christmas Day 2017
You’re visiting friends with a new-born baby. ‘So, who do you think he looks like?’ You stare into the cot and look at this sleeping baby. His mum, his dad, his grandad, the milkman? ‘Well he has your nose.’
View sermonA Service of Hope following the terror attack at London Bridge
Two weeks ago, this Cathedral, the area around it, bars and shops and streets, suffered appalling violence.
View sermonAscension Day
Behold, the Highest, parting hence away, Lightens the dark clouds, which He treads upon; Nor doth He by ascending show alone, But first He, and He first enters the way.
View sermonThe Funeral Service of PC Keith Palmer
In the shadow of one of the world’s best known clocks, in the shadow of a tower from which the chimes announce the passing of the hours and the days and the years, bells which herald news and mark new beginnings, Keith died, doing his duty and it was as if in that moment the clocks stopped
View sermonEucharist with Re-Licensing of Readers
“Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.” (John 15. 4)
View sermonEvensong with the Installation of Ecumenical Canons
It is a very great honour, on behalf of the Church of England in South London and East Surrey and all the parishes of the Diocese, which this Cathedral serves, to be able to pay tribute to four brothers and one sister in Christ newly installed as Ecumenical Canons.
View sermonThe Blessing of the Bells
‘High up in the steeple of an old church, far above the light and murmur of the town and far below the flying clouds that shadow it, is the wild and dreary place at night: and high up in the steeple of an old church, dwelt the Chimes I tell of'
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