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Sermons from Grace Cathedral

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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.

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The Fury of Jesus

March 03, 2024 23:49 - 15 minutes - 14.8 MB

Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22

The Only Act Worthy of You

February 25, 2024 21:12 - 11 minutes - 11.6 MB

For what would we give our lives? Peter fumbles this spectacularly in today's gospel. Jesus was teaching openly that he was going to suffer, it was a matter of fact, a condition of his — and our — living, The response of the Spirit to suffering is compassion, or presence and companionship with the one who suffers. Instead, Peter does something that may be intimately familiar to us: he tries to "fix" it. He wants to make it go away. He clings to his own ideas of what ought to be, and rather t...

Invitation to See

February 18, 2024 20:26 - 11 minutes - 11.2 MB

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

February 15, 2024 03:26 - 10 minutes - 24 MB

“We are treated as imposters, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying and see – we are alive; as punished and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything (2 Cor. 5)."   Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E11                                         Ash Wednesday (Year B) 6:00 p.m. Eucharist                                  2  Wednesday 14 February 2024 | Valentine’s Day        ...

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Marc Handley Andrus

February 14, 2024 21:00 - 10 minutes - 24.7 MB

The Very Re. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

February 04, 2024 21:00 - 13 minutes - 29.8 MB

“Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint” (Isa. 40). The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E8, P5 5 Epiphany (Year B) 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eucharist Sunday 4 February 2024 Isaiah 40:21-31 Psalm 147:1-12 1 Cor. 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39

The Rev. John Dear

January 21, 2024 21:00 - 17 minutes - 39.4 MB

The Rev. John Dear is an internationally recognized voice and leader for peace and nonviolence. A priest, activist, and author, he served for years as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. The author of forty books, including They Will Inherit the Earth and Lazarus, Come Forth!, Father John is founder and director of The Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus, where he hosts and offers virtual workshops on Jesus and nonviolence. He was nominated several times for the Nobel Pe...

The Rev. Dr. Laurie Garrett-Cobbina

January 14, 2024 21:00 - 2 minutes - 2.76 MB

The Rev. Dr. Laurie Garrett-Cobbina Dean of the San Francisco Theological Seminary, Shaw Chair for CPE Program, and Professor of Pastoral Care and Education at San Francisco Theological Seminary/University of Redlands, San Anselmo, CA. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King legacy we gather to celebrate today matters. Just as Jesus revealed the power and glory of God through how he acted, what he said, who he befriended, who he included, Martin Luther King’s prophetic ministry reveals somethi...

In the Beginning

January 08, 2024 17:39 - 9 minutes - 18.3 MB

The Rev. Canon Anna E. Rossi

December 31, 2023 20:30 - 13 minutes - 30 MB

The First Sunday After Christmas Day:  Isaiah 61:10—62:3  Psalm 147:13-21 Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7 John 1:1-18   Scriptural references to light, are about God-given wisdom and insight. They are about fearless searching for truth, about self-knowledge, unveiling what is hidden, and brightening the shadows. This is the light to which we are all end. Holding that commission and understanding tenderly, I need to now turn to the shadow cast by the Israel-Gaza war, and our own call to ...

The Rev. Canon Dr. Greg Kimura

December 25, 2023 21:38 - 18 minutes - 41.4 MB

A Christmas story of solidarity and eternity

The Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus

December 25, 2023 08:13 - 17 minutes - 33.1 MB

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA Christmas Eve 11:00pm Choral Eucharist Sunday 24 December 2023

The Rev. Canon Anna Rossi

December 25, 2023 03:26 - 5 minutes - 11.9 MB

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA Christmas Eve 4:00pm Festival of Lessons & Carols Sunday 24 December 2023

The Rev. Canon Dr. Greg Kimura

December 17, 2023 21:25

 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 

The Rev. Canon Dr. Greg Kimura

December 17, 2023 21:24

 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 

The Rev. Canon Dr. Greg Kimura

December 17, 2023 21:24

 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 

The Rev. Canon Dr. Greg Kimura

December 17, 2023 21:24

 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 

The Rev. Canon Dr. Greg Kimura

December 17, 2023 21:24

 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 

The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Greene

November 19, 2023 20:33 - 13 minutes - 25.7 MB

Having grown up in the military, packing up and moving every few years was part of my life as early as I could remember.     Our move to Illinois, though, the year I started third grade, wasn’t like the ones before it.     My mother didn’t stand in the rooms with the moving company ensuring that her china was wrapped just so, that the teak table and chairs remained unscratched, that her piano was moved gently.     And our things, she didn’t hear my stories about my stuffed animals a...

The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Green

October 15, 2023 19:30 - 12 minutes - 28 MB

Today is a day of invitations and explorations.   Throughout the day, during the service and beyond, we are invited to observe the Children’s Sabbath, a day inspired by the Children’s Defense Fund, when faith groups celebrate childhood and tune into the concerns of children, youth, and families.  We will celebrate our children in a few ways:  To begin, we remember the children of the previous generation in this altar frontal made by Grace Cathedral’s young people ~25 years ago.  And we...

Keeping Pure

August 20, 2023 22:09 - 9 minutes - 12.2 MB

August 20th, 2023 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

The Rev. Joe C. WIlliams

August 06, 2023 20:00 - 8 minutes - 19.9 MB

The Rev. Joe C. Williams, Succentor 6 August 2023 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA Exodus 34:29-35 Luke 9:28-36

The Rev. Dr. Greg Kimura

July 16, 2023 20:00 - 14 minutes - 32.9 MB

Genesis 25:19-34 Romans 8:1-11 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

The Rev. Canon Anna E. Rossi

July 02, 2023 22:18 - 11 minutes - 9.89 MB

In worship, God asks something of us: our time, our presence, our material resources; our imagination, our heart, our gifts, our loves. God calls to Abraham, who says "here I am." Abraham is not responding with GPS coordinates, but with self-offering — "Yes, you have me; all of me." Proper 8A: Genesis 22:1-14, Psalm 13, Romans 6: 12-23, Matthew 10:40-42 July 2nd, 2023

The Rev. Joe C. Williams

June 25, 2023 19:30 - 9 minutes - 22.4 MB

The Rev. Timothy Seamans

May 07, 2023 19:15 - 15 minutes - 34.7 MB

Chaplain, Cathedral School for Boys

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Young

April 23, 2023 20:00 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MB

The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Greene

April 17, 2023 14:57 - 10 minutes - 19.9 MB

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

April 09, 2023 16:16 - 15 minutes - 30.2 MB

“Your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col. 3). Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Colossians 3:1-4 Matthew 28:1-10 When are you most fully alive? My friend Rhonda Magee felt fully alive when she was sixteen years old. The world was opening up, college was around the corner. Life had not been easy but she had reason to hope. Rhonda and a boy named Jake were head over heels in love. Then just before she left town for a summer university course, he told her over the phone, “My fat...

The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Greene

April 07, 2023 02:45 - 9 minutes - 20.8 MB

The Very Rev. Malcolm Clemens Young

April 02, 2023 20:00 - 14 minutes - 33.9 MB

“When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil asking, ‘Who is this?’” Mt. 21 Matthew 21:1-11 Isaiah 50:4-9a Philippians 2:5-11 Matthew 26:14-27:66 What is God like? And how will we respond? Give me your hand and we will see. In December 1945, halfway up the Egyptian portion of the Nile River, a farmer named Muhammad ‘Alī al-Sammān made an extraordinary archaeological discovery. Thirty years later he told his story. Not long before he and his brothers avenged their fa...

Mary Lomax-Ghirarduzzi

March 20, 2023 20:44 - 29 minutes - 54.9 MB

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

March 12, 2023 20:00 - 16 minutes - 38.1 MB

“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done” (Jn. 4)! The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2D17 3 Lent (Year A) 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eucharist Sunday 12 March 2023 Exodus 17:1-7 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-11 Romans 5:1-11 John 4:5-42

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

February 26, 2023 21:00 - 14 minutes - 32.2 MB

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2D14 1 Lent (Year A) 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 26 February 2023 Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Psalm 32 Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11 Often I start with a question but today I want to finish with one. Sixty years ago President John F. Kennedy, full of confidence in modern science, made two predictions. First, that within a decade a human being would walk on the moon. And second, that science would, “make the remote reaches of the human mind accessib...

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

February 19, 2023 20:29 - 20 minutes - 38.4 MB

“And Jesus came and touched them, saying, ‘Get up and do not be afraid…” (Mt. 17). Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2D12 Last Epiphany (Year A) 11:00 a.m. Sunday 19 February 2023 Exodus 24:12-18 Psalm 99:1-8 2 Peter 1:16-21 Matthew 17:1-9 Last week in an email my friend Hugh Morgan observed that when it comes to social justice the Old Testament prophets sound strikingly modern to him. He wonders if the Old Testament has a stronger social justice message than the New Testam...

The Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson

February 12, 2023 20:30 - 17 minutes - 40 MB

Grace Cathedral is honored to welcome the Rt. Rev. Deon K. Johnson, the 11th Bishop of Missouri, and the first Black gay bishop in The Episcopal Church, to the pulpit. Bishop Johnson is passionate about justice and human dignity and reflecting those commitments in the church’s liturgy. Bishop Johnson has been a fierce advocate for LGBTQ inclusion and led nonviolent protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Most recently, he is among the 13 faith leaders to sue the State of Missouri ...

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

February 05, 2023 20:30 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MB

“[N]ow we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God” (2 Cor. 2:1). Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2D9  5 Epiphany (Year A) 11:00 a.m.  Sunday 5 February 2023                                       Isaiah 58:1-9a Psalm 112:1-9 2 Corinthians 2:1-12 Matthew 5:13-20    You are the salt of the earth. At 6:00 p.m., at the height of the century’s worst winter storm, I put on waterproof biking pants and a jacket to go walking in the darkness. Rain ...

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

January 22, 2023 20:30 - 13 minutes - 32 MB

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom then shall I fear” (Ps. 27)? Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2D6 3 Epiphany (Year A) 11:00 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. Eucharist Sunday 22 January 2023 Isaiah 9:1-4 Psalm 27:1, 4-9 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Matthew 4:12-23 What new season of life are you entering? How will you need to change? What relationship will you have with God?

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

January 15, 2023 21:00 - 16 minutes - 23.2 MB

“You are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 1). Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2D2 2 Epiphany (Year A) 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 15 January 2023 Isaiah 49:1-7 Psalm 40:1-12 1 Cor. 1:1-9 John 1:29-42

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

December 25, 2022 01:13 - 14 minutes - 27.6 MB

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2C54 Christmas Eve (Proper 1) 11:00 p.m. Eucharist Saturday 24 December 2022 (also preached a L&C at 4:00 p.m.) Isaiah 9:2-7 Psalm 96 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-20 Imagine your existence as an hourglass, the bottom globe filling with sand until the time appointed for your life has ended. We do not know how much sand the top globe holds, how much time we have left. On this holy night when we do not have to pretend let me ask this. How are you doing...

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

December 25, 2022 01:08 - 5 minutes - 11.6 MB

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2C53 Christmas Eve (Proper 1) 4:00 p.m. Lessons and Carols Saturday 24 December 2022 Also preaching at 11 p.m. Mt. 2:1-1, Jn. 1:1-18 Lk. 2:1-7, Lk. 2:8-20 Isa. 7:10-14, Lk. 1:26-38 Gen. 1:1-5, Isa. 35:1-10 Merry Christmas! When I have to say something difficult or controversial from this pulpit I often look up and draw courage from this stained glass window of the warrior St. Martin. It reminds me of the people at St. Martin’s Church in Davis,...

The Rev. Timothy Seamans

December 18, 2022 20:00 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MB

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

December 04, 2022 20:00 - 15 minutes - 35.7 MB

Malcolm Clemens Young                                                                        Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2C51                                            2 Advent (Year A) 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Eucharist                    Sunday 4 December 2022                                                                       Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 Are There Reasons to Have Hope? An Introduction to the Gospel of Matthew “What...

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

November 14, 2022 19:51 - 11 minutes - 21.6 MB

The Invisible Beauty “Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him” (Lk. 24). Forms of beauty exist that we are only dimly aware of. So much happens that we fail to notice. We never experience some of the most beautiful phenomena in nature. Have you ever been in the Pacific Ocean and seen the sun rise over the continent? The light creates a brilliant golden path over the water that seems to go right to you. Under certain conditions, when you are far out beyond the impact zone, a...

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

November 06, 2022 23:28 - 13 minutes - 25.9 MB

“Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to [God] all of them are alive” (Lk. 20). Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Psalm 149 Luke 20:27-38 What happens after you die? Jesus cares so intensely about the present moment that he does not say much about this, except that our fear of death influences how we live.   As a freshman at Harvard College my old teacher Cornel West hung two pictures on his wall: Malcolm X and Albert Einstein. His roommate James Brown, (not the singer but the ma...

Dolores Huerta

October 23, 2022 19:30 - 10 minutes - 24.1 MB

Dolores Huerta Civil Rights Activist October 23, 2022 Grace Cathedral San Francisco, CA 

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

October 16, 2022 19:30 - 15 minutes - 34.7 MB

“I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God” (Jer. 31).                                                                    Jeremiah 31:27-34 Psalm 119:97-104 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Luke 18:1-8 “When the Son of humanity comes will he find faith on earth” (Lk. 18)? These words from two thousand years ago are the defining question of our time. This week the House Committee on the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol concluded its hearings....

The Rev. Mary Carter Greene

October 02, 2022 23:20 - 9 minutes - 18.2 MB

The Very Rev. Malcolm Clemens Young, ThD

September 11, 2022 19:30 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MB

“Rejoice with me for I have found my sheep that was lost” (Lk. 15). Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 Psalm 14 1 Timothy 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-10 Mark Johnson and George Lakoff’s Metaphors We Live By is one of my favorite books. These authors point out that simple unexamined metaphors lie behind the very structure of our thought. The idea of “argument as war” is an example. We talk about winning an argument, an indefensible position, being right on target, shooting down an assumption, etc. We co...

The Rev. Canon Jude Harmon

June 26, 2022 19:00 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MB