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
You can’t escape the image, you can’t escape the message. For the next six weeks this cathedral is dominated by the installation of Mark Titchner’s street art which says to us, and you can read it for yourself, ‘Please believe these days will pass’
View sermonIt struck me as ironic that, on the very morning that the Church withdraws the common cup at the distribution of Communion, we gather around one of the only gospel stories in which a drink is requested. And although the woman Jesus approaches is not actually infectious, she would certainly have been viewed as ritually unclean – not the sort of person with whom you’d want to share your water jar
View sermonBehold, 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 sermonIn 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 sermonIt 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 sermon‘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'
View sermonI love Christmas, I mean I really love Christmas, but even so, in the run up to this great day, there’s one question I cannot bear – ‘What do you want for Christmas?’
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