Sermons From Grace Cathedral

Bishop of California The Third Sunday after the Epiphany Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA January 26, 2025   Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 Psalm 19 1 Corinthians 12:12-13a Luke 4:14-21  

The Second Sunday after the Epiphany January 19, 2025 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA   Isaiah 62:1-5 Psalm 36:5-10 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 John 2:1-11

Isaiah 43:1-7 Psalm 29 Acts 8:14-17 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22   1. What stands in the way of having a deeper faith? On August 5, 1949 a crew of fifteen elite US Forest Service smokejumpers, or airborne firefighters, stepped out of their plane above a remote wildfire in Montana. Within an hour all but three of them were dead or mortally burned. They were caught by flames as they ran uphill through dried grass on a steep slope trying to reach a higher ridge. [1]   The University of Chicago English Literature professor Norman Maclean (1902-1990), who himself had experience as a fire fighter, happened to be in town and took the time to visit the fire even as it still burned. The men who perished were mostly in their early twenties and their stories haunted Maclean until he retired from teaching decades later and began writing about them.   He begins his book Young Men and Fire saying, “The problem of self-identity is not just a problem for the young. It is a problem for all the time. Perhaps the problem. It should haun

5 January 2025 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA   Jeremiah 31:7-14 Psalm 84:1-12 Ephesians 1:3-6, 15-19a Matthew 2:1-12    

The Rev. Joe Williams 29 December 2024 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA   Isaiah 60:10-62.3 Psalm 147:13-21 Galatians 3:23-25, 4:4-7 John 1:1-18

“How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heaven” (Phillips Brooks). Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E76 Christmas Eve 11:00 p.m. Eucharist Tuesday 24 December 2024 | Austin Rios’ First Xmas at GC Isaiah 9:2-7 Psalm 96:1-4, 11-13 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-20 What for you is god? By god I mean, your goal, where your life is going. I mean what is most real to you. The answer to this question is not theoretical or abstract. It will determine the entire character and direction of your life. It will dictate how you spend your time and what you think about.  

The Rt. Rev. Ausitn Keith Rios, Bishop of California   The Eve of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA   Isaiah 62:6-12 Psalm 97:1-2, 6-9, 11-12 Titus 3:4-7 Luke 2:8-20

The Eve of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ 24 December 2024 - 4 p.m. A Festival of Lessons and Carols Some early childhood Christmases in my native Ohio were spent at my aunt's home in Youngstown, where my father was born. His mother, Grandma Mary, was still on this side of heaven and holding forth from the kitchen, bracciole and hot sausages simmering in her pot. What I remember most after the smells, was the travel. An hour's drive in the snow and ice, my dad's hands flying from the wheel as he issued commentary on the evening, me braced between my younger sisters in adjoining car seats, and my mom pregnant with our next sister, calming us with songs of Judy Collins. All of us were draped with blankets, guarding us from the unreliable heat of an aging Volkswagen Rabbit.

The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Greene , Canon Pastor Eucharist, Advent 4, - December 22, 2024 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA   Micah 5.2-5a Canticle 15 (Luke 1:46-55) Hebrews 10.5-10 Luke 1:39-45 (46-55)

The Rev. Canon Anna E. Rossi Canon Precentor and Director of Interfaith Engagement Zephaniah 3:14-20 Philippians 4:4-7 Luke 3:7-18

“Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low… and all flesh shall see the salvation of God” (Luke 3).   Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E75                                      2 Advent (Year C) 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Eucharist                           Sunday 8 December 2024                                                                   Baruch 5:1-9 Canticle 16 (Luke 1:68-79) Philippians 1: 3-11 Luke 3:1-6

Advent 1 2024 The Rev. Cn. MC Greene 8:30 AM and 11:00 service 

Pope Pius IX instituted today's Feast of Christ the King, or the Reign of Christ, in a 1925 encyclical, a papal letter sent to the bishops of the Roman Church. The feast and its timing was incorporated broadly in Christian churches -- including ours -- through ecumenical and liturgical movements a few decades later. Even if we dismiss the notion of king as an outmoded overlord, we have taken that identity in Christ in baptism, and by virtue of that, must wrestle with that identity and the sacred principles that gave rise to today. In today's gospel, on the one hand, Pilate is trying Jesus: what have you done? And on the other hand, Jesus is recapitulating the trying question of the gospels: who do you say that I am?   The Rev. Canon Anna E. Rossi, Canon Precentor and Director of Interfaith Engagement The Reign of Christ, Year B: 2 Samuel 23:1-7  Psalm 132:1-13, (14-19) Revelation 1:4b-8  John 18:33-37

“God we are your children and you love us with a perfect love.” Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E73, P25                                      26 Pentecost (28B) 11:00 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eucharist                               Sunday 17 November 2024 | Stewardship Ingathering Sunday           1 Samuel 1:4-20 Canticle C Heb. 10:11-14, 19-25 Mark 13:1-8  

“[A]nyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has… passed from death to eternal life"(1 Thess. 4).   Sunday 10 November 2024 | Maurice Duruflé Requiem Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E72 Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 130 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 John 5:24-27