Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Maybe God has been waiting on me more than I've been waiting on God.” A reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent by the Rev’d Matthew Lawrence , Canon for Spiritual Formation at Trinity Cathedral in Portland.   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5-10 min...

"What light can reach our watchful eyes?" A musical offering for the fourteenth day of Advent by Ross Martinie Eiler of the Bloomington Catholic Worker in Bloomington, IN, and Eli Schille Hudson, Instructor of Guitar at Western Washington University in Bellingham WA. Tracks are "Advent" and "Lamplighting Song," the first and last tracks from their forthcoming album Signs and Seasons - a song cycle...

"How do we experience the sacred in the ordinary?" A reflection for the thirteenth day of Advent by Steve Isaacson , author of Praying with Saint Benedict and co-coordinator of Trinity's Outreach Ministries .   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5-10 minut...

"To actively wait is to witness an unfolding.” A reflection for the twelfth day of Advent by spiritual coach and contemplative leader Jamie Deering.    Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5-10 minute episodes, original meditations on the theme of waiting by...

“What does it look like to wait when what we're waiting for may never come?” A reflection for the eleventh day of Advent by Callie Swanlund , a spiritual companion and co-dreamer based in Philadelphia.   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5-10 minute episo...

“Try to love the questions themselves.” A reflection for the tenth day of Advent by Jill Sajec , Missioner for Youth & Liturgical Assistant at Trinity Cathedral in Portland. Excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pa...

"He was early in the office the next morning.” A reflection for the ninth day of Advent by the Rev’d David Sweeney, Rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Seaside, OR. Excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5...

"I am desperately longing for a grownup hope." Sermon by The Rev'd Matthew Lawrence, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday December 4, 2021. View the video archive of this sermon on our YouTube channel's  Sermon Playlist . Be sure to like us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter , and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upcoming events, at  trinity-episcopal.org .

"Sometimes it feels like we’re moving in a circle.” A reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent by the Very Rev’d Nathan LeRud , Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Portland. Music from The Band’s Visit (Itamar Moses/David Yazbek).   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for...

Improvisation on Conditor alme siderum (Creator of the stars at night) for the seventh day of Advent, played by Katie Burk , Organ Scholar at Trinity Cathedral in Portland.   Conditor alme siderum (7th cent.) 1 Creator of the stars of night, your people’s everlasting light, O Christ, Redeemer of us all, we pray you, hear us when we call. 2 In sorrow that the ancient curse should doom to death a un...

"The system is broken - a token for your consideration." Spoken word reflection for the sixth day of Advent by Anya Pearson , playwright, poet, actress, and activist. [contains explicit language]   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5-10 minute episodes, o...

"Waiting is a frightening place to be." Reflection for the fifth day of Advent by the Rev'd Michael Ellick , Director of Public Engagement at Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon .   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5-10 minute episodes, original meditations...

"What if waiting is the gift of life itself?" Reflection for the fourth day of Advent by the Rev'd Regan Schutz , rector of Christ Church in Coronado, CA.   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5-10 minute episodes, original meditations on the theme of waiti...

"It's countercultural to observe Advent in a society that doesn't wait for anything." Reflection for the third day of Advent by the Rev'd Andria Skornik , Rector at All Saints Episcopal in Portland, OR.   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor for your Advent contemplation & reflection in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Pause each day for brief 5-10 minute epis...

"Surely,” a musical Advent reflection offered by the Rev’d  Matthew David Morris , Associate Priest/Digital Missioner at Grace Memorial in Portland and chaplain (aka Mother Superior) of The Chapel with Nadia Bolz-Weber. Text: Surely this world will be remade Surely the truth can be repaid Surely our suffering won't be in vain Surely the true King will come Surely the tears won't burn for long Sure...

"Don't be afraid to befriend the darkness." Sermon by Dean Nathan LeRud, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday November 28, 2021. View the video archive of this sermon on our YouTube channel's  Sermon Playlist . Be sure to like us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter , and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upcoming events, at  trinity-episcopal.org .

"May the holiness of Advent find us where we are." An introduction to Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar, a daily podcast to anchor your Advent contemplation in the midst of the hectic secular Christmas season. Reflection for the First Sunday of Advent by the Rev'd Shana McCauley , Canon for Cathedral Life at Trinity Cathedral in Portland.   Waiting: An Aural Advent Calendar is offered as an anchor...

"True power exists not in crowns and militaries, but in the act of giving it away." Sermon by Canon for Cathedral Life Shana McCauley, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday November 21, 2021. View the video archive of this sermon on our YouTube channel's  Sermon Playlist . Be sure to like us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter , and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upc...

"Hold fast to what you know to be true." Sermon by Dean Nathan LeRud, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday November 14, 2021. View the video archive of this sermon on our YouTube channel's  Sermon Playlist . Be sure to like us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter , and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upcoming events, at  trinity-episcopal.org .

"This is what it feels like when healing starts." Reflection by Trinity Dean Nathan LeRud, recorded live on Sunday, November 7, 2021, at the 5:00 pm service of remembrance Out of Darkness: Light. Watch the full service at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS3FRlE0_u0

"As we have known from our times of exile, there comes light. There comes hope. There comes healing." Reflection by Rabbi Michael Cahana, Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel, recorded live on Sunday, November 7, 2021, at the 5:00 pm service of remembrance Out of Darkness: Light. Watch the full service at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS3FRlE0_u0

"Death is the question that Baptism answers." Sermon by Canon for Spiritual Formation, Matthew Lawrence, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday November 7, 2021. View the video archive of this sermon on our YouTube channel's  Sermon Playlist . Be sure to like us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter , and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upcoming events, at  trinity-episc...

"Sometimes the holy sneaks up on us in the least likely places." Sermon by Dean Nathan LeRud, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday October 31, 2021.   View the video archive of this sermon on our YouTube channel's  Sermon Playlist . Be sure to like us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter , and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upcoming events, at  trinity-episcopal.org...

"Churches are not for the successful." Sermon by Dean Nathan LeRud, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday October 24, 2021. View the video archive of this sermon on our YouTube channel's  Sermon Playlist . Be sure to like us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter , and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upcoming events, at  trinity-episcopal.org .  

"It all comes down to this, Jesus loves you." Sermon by Canon for Spiritual Formation Matthew Lawrence, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday October 17, 2021. View the video archive of this sermon on our YouTube channel's  Sermon Playlist . Be sure to like us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter , and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upcoming events, at  trinity-episco...