The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA June 8, 2025 Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104::25-35, 37 Romans 8:14-17 John 14:8-17, 25-27
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The Rt. Rev Bavi (Nedi) Rivera
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Diocesan Ordinations of a Deacon and Priests Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA June 7, 2025 Isiah 6:1-8 Psalm 43 Ephesians 4-7, 11-16 John 6:35-38
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The Rt. Rev Bavi (Nedi) Rivera
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Diocesan Ordinations of a Deacon and Priests Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA June 7, 2025 Isiah 6:1-8 Psalm 43 Ephesians 4-7, 11-16 John 6:35-38
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The Rt. Rev Bavi (Nedi) Rivera
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Diocesan Ordinations of a Deacon and Priests Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA June 7, 2025 Isiah 6:1-8 Psalm 43 Ephesians 4-7, 11-16 John 6:35-38
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Pride Mass
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco June 1, 2025 - 6 p.m. Pride Mass 1 Corinthians 29:14b-19 Psalm 84 John 21:15-24
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Revelation: The Anti-Christ Today
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
“And let anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift” (Rev. 22). Acts 16:16-34 Psalm 97 Rev. 22:12-14,16-17,20-21 John 17:20-26
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The Rev. Joe C. Williams
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA The Sixth Sunday of Easter, 11 a.m. Eucharist May 25, 2025 Acts 16:9-15 Psalm 67 Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 John 14:23-29
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Changed by a Book: Malcolm X at 100
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2F16 5 Easter (Year C) RCL 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 18 May 2025 | Bay to Breakers Acts 11:1-18 Psalm 148 Revelation 21:1-6 John 13:31-35 Most holy God, make all things new. Make all things new, beginning with us. Amen. “People don’t realize how a [person’s] whole life can be changed by one book.” I came across this sentence at the age of twenty-two in a book that changed my life, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I put on his worldview like a pair of reading glasses that suddenly brought the truth about our society into...
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Resurrection is a Team Sport: What Will the Fossil Record Say About Us?
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco The Fourth Sunday in Easter, Mother's Day May 11, 2025 Acts 9:36-43 Psalm 23 Revelation 7:9-17 John 10:22-30
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Called by Name: The leader we need for a transformative social movement
Sermons from Grace Cathedral
This sermon explores what makes a true movement leader, building from the gospel passage from John 21 and scholarship of Raymond Brown. Love, vicarious authority, and sacrifice emerge as the Christlike qualities needed—not only in the church but in social movements today. From Occupy to Black Lives Matter, we see the power and risk of decentralized movements. Our call as people of faith is to recognize, support, and embody leadership that is loving, accountable, and willing to sacrifice for the common good. Easter 3C RCL: • Acts 9:1-6,(7-20) • Psalm 30 • Revelation 5:11-14...
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The Feast of the Presentation 11 a.m. Eucharist
Sunday 2 February 2025 | Displacing 4 Epiphany
Malachi 3:1-4
Psalm 24:7-10
Hebrews 2:14-18
Luke 2:22-40
What exactly is a sermon? What are we doing together and what do we hope happens?
This might seem like an unimportant question to ask. In the last two weeks 1500 January 6 rioters were pardoned or had their sentences commuted and many wonder if right-wing militias now regard themselves as immune to prosecution. $3 trillion dollars in federal grants were frozen and then unfrozen. A letter went out to 2 million federal employees (twice) asking them to resign. Hundreds of other government employees including civil servants at the highest level of our justice system have been fired. 25% tariffs are being imposed on our closest neighbors and trading partners.
We see preparations for mass deportations. We hear ominously repeated phrases like,“defending women from gender ideology extremism,” and, “restoring biological truth to the federal government.” The trans people in our congregation, among our clergy, and across the land are being singled out, when they are just the sort of humans Jesus loved the most and sought to defend.
“O God we long for your truth. Let your spirit help us to understand what we believe.”