Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Sunday Sermons from San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, home to a community where the best of Episcopal tradition courageously embraces innovation and open-minded conversation. At Grace Cathedral, inclusion is expected and people of all faiths are welcomed. The cathedral itself, a renowned San Francisco landmark, serves as a magnet where diverse people gather to worship, celebrate, seek solace, converse and learn.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Truth Hurts … and Heals
Jesus delivers a hard truth to the young man seeking eternal life: “Sell everything, give the proceeds to the poor and then come follow me.” We shouldn’t be surprised. Jesus’s words are often sharp …
How to Think about Divorce
Holy God so often we feel cut off from you and one another. Help us find our way to healing and hope, so that we can become new again. Amen.
Strikingly beautiful, Maria had deep dark eyes and long …
The Very Rev. Debbie Thomas
Genesis 28:10-17
Revelation 12:7-12
John 1:47-51
Making Greatness Great Again - Debie Thomas, Author
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and to forfeit his life?” (Mk. 7).
Proverbs 1:20-33
Psalm 19
James 3:1-12
Mark 8:27-38
What does it mean to lose our life in order to s…
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young
“Looking up to heaven [Jesus] and said… “Ephatha,” that is, “Be opened” (Mk. 7).
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E58
16 Pentecost (Proper 18B) 11:00 …
The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Greene
Song of Solomon 2:8-13
James 1:17-27
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young
“Once there were three baby owls: Sarah and Percy and Bill. They lived in a hole in the trunk of a tree with their Owl Mother…” [1] These are the first lines in the children’s picture book Owl Babies…
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young
“We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God” (Jn. 6).
1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11),22-30,41-43
Psalm 84
Ephesians 6:10-20
John 6:56-69
The Rev. Joe C. Williams
1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14
Ephesians 5:15-20
John 6:51-58
The Rt. Rev. Austin Keith Rios
In the crypt of the basilica in Assisi, there is a shirt made out of hair that once adorned the mortal body of St. Clare. Each time I visited that Umbrian mecca of a kind of sainthood that remains ad…
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young
“[B]e kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you” (Ephesians 4).
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E46 12 Pentecost (Proper 14) 11:00 a.m. Euchari…
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young
“Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee; joyless is the day’s return till thy mercy’s beams I see, till they inward light impart, glad my eyes and warm my heart.”
Why practice religio…
The Rev. Canon Anna E. Rossi
We gather today to celebrate with great joy the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women in The Episcopal Church. And precisely because of our joy, we keep in mind the long road that led to this o…
The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Greene
21 July 2024
2 Sameul 7:1-14a
Ephesians 2:11-22
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
The Rev. Joe C. Williams
2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19
Ephesians 1:3-14
Mark 6:14-29
Questions, Curiosity and Hope
Mark called it a Gospel, what he wove from sayings and parables of Jesus, scenes from Jesus’ ministry, and a Passion narrative. He set the Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan as the beginning and ended it …
The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Greene
As The book of Common Prayer offers, we pray:
O God, you have bound us together in a common life. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without hat…
The Rev. Joe C. Williams
1 Samuel 17:57-18:5, 10-16
2 Corinthians 6:1-13
Mark 4:35-41
The World is Satan's Home
“Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4).
1 Samuel 8:4-11, 16-20
Psalm 138
2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1
Mark 3:20-35