Sermons by Washington National Cathedral

Evening Prayer - March 21, 2020

Members of our music team join the Cathedral clergy as they pray the daily office.

Morning Prayer - March 21, 2020

Members of our music team join the Cathedral clergy as they pray the daily office.

Evening Prayer - March 20, 2020

Members of our music team join the Cathedral clergy as they pray the daily office.

Morning Prayer - March 20, 2020

Members of our music team join the Cathedral clergy as they pray the daily office.

Sermon by the Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas

The story from the Garden of Eden? It's about so much more than Adam, Eve and a silver-tongued serpent.

“God’s human creation has been given the responsibility to partner with God in caring for that which God has created. This, my friends, is essentially what faith is all about.”

On the First Sunday in Lent, the Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas challenges us with the work that faith requires us to do. 

Sermon date: March 1, 2020

Sermon by the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith

As we gather this Ash Wednesday in preparation for a holy Lent, Dean Randy Hollerith asks that we remember who and what we are. Who we are is a group of fragile and imperfect people in need of love and forgiveness. What we are is the body of Christ and the children of God.

Remember that God loves you and gave himself to die on a cross so that you may be free. As we cross ourselves with the Ashes of Palm Sunday, let them also be the Ashes of Salvation, the marks of Christ himself and the marks of Christ's sacrifice given for us all.

Sermon date: February 26, 2020

Sermon by the Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope

“As tempting as it is stay on that mountaintop where the view is good, and to pitch tents like Peter wanted to do, we’re called to come off that mountain, to do the work that God has given us to do, knowing that we don’t do it alone.”

As we prepare to enter the season of Lent, the Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope challenged us to remember a time when we experienced the transformative presence of God.

Sermon date: February 23, 2020

Sermon by the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith

“God won’t be satisfied until our hearts are changed, until we root out the bigotry, and the anger and the hatred that is still so prevalent in our society.”

Dean Randy Hollerith preached this past Sunday, stressing the importance of letting go of anger and grudges so that we can come to the altar at peace with one another.

 

Sermon date: February 16, 2020

Sermon by the Rev. Canon Rosemarie Logan Duncan

“On this first Sunday in Black History month, I am reminded that those enslaved, those who lived under segregation, legal discrimination and Jim Crow waited in hope, much like Simeon for the consolation, for the end of suffering and sorrow and for the promise for the light to shine in what were some of the darkest times in our shared national life.”

The Rev. Canon Rose Duncan preached on the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple, encouraging us to take inspiration from Simeon and Anna, who waited in hope and trusted God’s promises.

Sermon date: February 2, 2020

Sermon by the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith

"Believing is important, but it is not discipleship."

Dean Randy Hollerith preached this Sunday on the value of Christianity as a living faith.

Sermon date: January 26, 2020