Sermons
Christmas 1 - Year A
Sunday, 28 December 2025
John Conway, Provost
A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.

Midnight Mass 2025
Wednesday, 24 December 2025
John Conway, Provost
What is given to us this night, in the birth of this child, in the communion we share, is the life of Christ that can form us, and shape us

Advent 3 Year A
Sunday, 14 December 2025
John Conway, Provost
The Jesus who comes at Christmas is not so much the answer to our questions, as the question itself that is addressed to us.

Advent 2 Year A
Sunday, 7 December 2025
Canon Professor Paul Foster
... at times we the church appear to be more concerned with our own institutional survival than with speaking out for the voiceless in society.
Advent 1 Year A
Sunday, 30 November 2025
Marion Chatterley, Vice Provost
This is God's story, not yours.

Christ the King Year C
Sunday, 23 November 2025
Marion Chatterley, Vice Provost
The kingdom of God isn't a destination but it can be a lived reality.

Stewardship Sunday Year C
Sunday, 16 November 2025
John Conway, Provost
A sermon unapologetically about money, and particularly the money that the Cathedral needs to sustain its life and mission

Remembrance Sunday Year C
Sunday, 9 November 2025
John Conway, Provost
Throughout the people of God’s turbulent history, the prophets evoke and remind the people of the original promise, blessing and covenant that defines who they are, and invites them to act in ways that lead to its, at least partial, fulfilment in their own time.

All Saints Year C (with adult baptism)
Sunday, 2 November 2025
Marion Chatterley, Vice Provost
I invite you to open the eyes of your heart and to respond fully, confidently and with an aspiration to find and inhabit that liminal space where you can know God and be known by God, where you too will be resourced to experience and share God’s unconditional and eternal love.

Pentecost 19 Year C
Sunday, 19 October 2025
John Conway, Provost
Through worship, through open, engaged hearts and minds, what we do here on a Sunday is not to be entertained but is to dare to listen and to receive and be transformed.

Pentecost 18 Year C
Sunday, 12 October 2025
Dr Esther Elliott
Perhaps nostalgia is one of the greatest unacknowledged sorrows, temptations, and forces of modern life.

Creation Time 5 Year C
Sunday, 5 October 2025
Marion Chatterley, Vice Provost
This is a narrative of faith. Faith in the God who never gives up on us. Faith in the God whose mercy was and is and is to come.

