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If you have not been able to attend, or if you have enjoyed a particular sermon and wish to reflect on it further you will find transcripts and videos of some of the most recent sermons on this page.

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I wonder what, if anything, each of you have decided to do to mark Lent? I know many people have a standard Lenten discipline which they find fruitful. Equally, I am someone who changes practices each Lent, rarely choosing to do the same thing and using it instead as a time to experiment with new ways to pay deeper attention to my spiritual life and to God…

Sermon, Sunday 16 March 2025 – The Revd Canon Rowena King

Lilly and the Wave arrived in the nave of the cathedral in the middle of last week.  If you haven’t yet had a chance to look at this community art installation, let me encourage you to do so before you leave this morning.  Put simply, the story that has inspired it begins…

Sermon, Sunday 23 February 2025 – The Very Revd Dr Simon Jones

Today’s readings all invite us to reflect on what does and doesn’t lead to a flourishing life, and perhaps to even ask ourselves ‘How do we know if we are flourishing or not? What does flourishing actually look like?’…

Sermon, Sunday 16 February 2025 – the Revd Canon Rowena King

Epiphany, as its name suggests, is the season of revelations and revealings – a season in which each Sunday we unfold another story about who Jesus was and what he came to do. Each week we hear the story of a different place, a different context, and a different group of people …

Sermon – Sunday 26 January 2025, the Revd Canon Rowena King

‘You’re on mute!’  ‘You’re on mute!’  How many times a day have those words been shouted at a screens of various shapes and sizes since Zoom and Teams became part of our lives at the beginning of the pandemic? Christmas is a time to make some noise…

Sermon, Wednesday 25 December – The Very Revd Dr Simon Jones

Last week Historic England published the 2024 edition of its ‘Heritage at Risk Register’.  Once again Lincoln Cathedral was listed.  Once again, we were not the only English Cathedral to appear; but, once again, we were the only English Cathedral which, in its entirety, is considered to be at risk…

Sermon 18, November 2024 – The Very Revd Dr Simon Jones