Cathedral Church of St Luke - Homilies

Pentecost empowers us to be communally sensitive.

Sermon preached by the Rev. Canon Patricia Orlando on 19 MAY 2024.

Psalm 104:25-35,37;
Acts 2:1-11 or Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-11; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

Sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando on 12 MAY 2024.

Psalm 1;
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19

How is it that we move into this in-between time? We move into it by loving, by loving God, by loving one another, and remembering that we are called to love just as Jesus loved.

Sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Dr. Dan Smith on 5 MAY 2024.

Psalm 98;

Acts 10:44-48;  1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17

May you know personally that whenever the drowning waters threaten to overwhelm you, you know that he comes from the cross into the water to lift you up and give you life.

Sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando on 28 APRIL 2024.

Psalm 22:24-30; 

Acts 8:26-40;  1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8 

Consider yourselves, dead to sin and alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Sermon preached by the Rev. Canon Patricia Orlando on 21 APRIL 2024.

Psalm 23; 
Acts 4:5-12; 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18

“My God open my eyes, my God open my heart so that I may see how you want me to be your child.”

Sermon preached by the Right Reverend Dr. Dabney Smith on 14 APRIL 2024.

Psalm 4; 
Acts 3:12-19; 1 John 3:1-7; Luke 24:36b-48

Jesus has a way of showing up in his own and evoking a Thomas like “my Lord and my God.”

Sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando on 7 APRIL 2024.

Psalm 133;  Acts 4:32-35;  1 John 1:1-2:2; John 20:19-31

Because of the resurrection, that in the midst of death we’re actually in life, so live.

Sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Justin S Holcomb on 31 MARCH 2024.

Psalm 118:1-2,14-24; 
Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 25:6-9; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 or Acts 10:34-43; John 20:1-18 or Mark 16:1-8

A story of paradise, paradise lost and of paradise regained.

Sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando on 24 MARCH 2024.

Liturgy of the Palms:
Psalm 118:19-29; 
Mark 11:1-11 or John 12:2-16

Liturgy of the Word:
Psalm 31:9-16; 
Isaiah 50:4-9a; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 14:1-15:47 or Mark 15:1-39,(40-47)

Each of us has to hear that voice, “I was thinking of you”.

Sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando on 17 MARCH 2024.

Psalm 51:1-13 or 119:9-16; 
Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 5:5-10; John 12:20-33