Sermon by Charissa Simmons recorded August 18, 2024By Trinity Cathedral Portland

Sermon by Shana McCauley recorded August 11, 2024By Trinity Cathedral Portland

Recorded at the 10am service on Sunday, August 4, 2024By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"We are in the season of miracles." Sermon by Liz Harlan-Ferlo, Canon for Education & the Arts, recorded live at the 10:00 service on Sunday, July 28, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"What does it mean to sit down at the table with your enemy?" Sermon by Nathan LeRud, Cathedral Dean, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, July 21, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Jesus' clear instruction is to love one another." Sermon by Charissa Simmons, Canon for Spiritual Formation, recorded live at the 10:00 service on Sunday, July 14, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Talk less. Pray more." Sermon by The Very Rev'd A-Too Williams BA, M.Th, M.A Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Monrovia, Liberia. Recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, July 7, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Can healing still happen here?" Sermon by Nathan LeRud, Cathedral Dean, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, June 30, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Our country is complicit in so much violence." Sermon by guest preacher Melissa L. Bennett, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, June 23, 2024. Melissa Bennett (she/her) comes from Umatilla, Nimiipuu, Sac & Fox, Anishinaabe, Nordic, and Celtic ancestors - all of whom have a plethora of stories to tell. She is a transracial adoptee who g…

"When they rely on might and violence, the empires of the world fall." Sermon by Vijendran Sathyaraj, Assisting Priest, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, June 16, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Why is division so much more common than inclusion?" Sermon by Vijendran Sathyaraj, Assisting Priest, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, June 9, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Work will not save us from death." Sermon by Liz Harlan-Ferlo, Canon for Education & the Arts, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, June 2, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"I think to have faith is to engage a kind of irrationality." Sermon by the Rt. Rev'd Diana Akiyama, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Western Oregon, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Trinity Sunday, May 26, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"There's such a sweet, sweet spirit in this place." Sermon by Nathan LeRud, Cathedral Dean, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, May 19, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Fire is not always as it seems." Sermon by Liz Harlan-Ferlo, Canon for Education & the Arts, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Palm Sunday, May 12, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Wherever you are on the spectrum of human gender, God is big enough to meet you there." Sermon by Charissa Simmons, Canon for Spiritual Formation, recorded live at Choral Evensong on Sunday, May 5, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"God's breath brings life." Sermon by Vijendran Sathyaraj, Assisting Priest, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, May 5, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"What does it mean to encounter someone who is different?" Sermon by Nathan LeRud, Cathedral Dean, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, April 28, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"We love diversity, except when it comes to other people." Sermon by guest preacher KyungJa Oh, the first Korean American woman ordained in the Episcopal Church, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Part of the Michael B. Curry Distinguished Preachers Series. About Dr. Oh: KyungJa Oh (KJ) is a retired Episcopal priest and…

"How did you meet Jesus?" Sermon by Shana McCauley, Canon Vicar, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, April 14, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Do not doubt but believe." Sermon by Vijendran Sathyaraj, Assisting Priest, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, April 7, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"We refuse to let them be forgotten." Sermon by Nathan LeRud, Cathedral Dean, recorded live at the 11:00 service on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"This isn't the end of the story." Sermon by Charissa Simmons, Canon for Spiritual Formation, recorded live at the Great Vigil of Easter on Saturday, March 30, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"All that he is, he offers to us" Sermon by guest preacher Roger Ferlo, recorded live at the 7:00 pm service on Maundy Thursday, March 28, 2024 About the preacher: Roger Ferlo is president emeritus of Bexley Hall Seabury Western Theological Seminary Federation and Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He holds an AB from Colgate …

"This Holy Week, will you respect the dignity of every human being?" Sermon by Liz Harlan-Ferlo, Canon for Education & the Arts, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Beauty is worth everything we have to spend." Sermon by Nathan LeRud, Cathedral Dean, recorded live at the 10:00 am service on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 17, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"God is writing a new verse in your life every day." Sermon by Roy Cole, Assisting Priest, recorded live at the 10:00 am service on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, March 3, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"We can find Jesus wherever we are but the act of 'Christianing' is a group activity." Sermon by Shana McCauley, Canon Vicar, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, March 3, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"We can always begin again." Sermon by Roy Cole, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, February 25, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"How much are we missing by staring down?" Sermon by Nathan LeRud, Cathedral Dean, recorded live at the 10:00 am service on the First Sunday of Lent, February 18, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"You don't have to perform for God." Sermon by Liz Harlan-Ferlo, Canon for Education & the Arts, recorded live at the 12:00pm service on Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Do you think Jesus was up there screaming in the wind?" Sermon by Shana McCauley, Canon Vicar, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, February 11, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"What does healing mean if you don't even know that you are sick?" Sermon by Vijendran Sathyaraj, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, February 4, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

Cathedral Dean Nathan LeRud reports on the past year in the life of this community, and helps us look forward toward the future. View the Annual Report at https://www.trinity-episcopal.org/annual-reports Delivered at the 173nd Annual Meeting on Sunday, January 28, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Conscience can be a messy thing." Sermon by Roy Cole, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, January 28, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"We can accept the mystery of God as surpassing the reach of our understanding." Sermon by Vijendran Sathyaraj, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, January 21, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"This country only likes dead radicals." Cathedral Dean Nathan LeRud preaches on the lasting legacy of the Rev'd Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, January 14, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"We preach inclusion and we live mystery." Sermon by Liz Harlan-Ferlo, Canon for Cathedral Arts, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, January 7, 2024.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"The light shone in the darkness and the darkness could not overcome it." Sermon by Matthew Woodward, Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento, CA, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, December 31, 2023.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"This complex, layered meaning is how we can understand joy." Sermon by Diana Akiyama, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, recorded live at the 8:00pm Christmas Eve service on Sunday, December 24, 2023.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"When we say yes to the impossible thing, our souls sing." Sermon by Shana McCauley, Canon Vicar, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, December 24, 2023.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"What's the difference between quiet and silence?" The kids & youth of Trinity weigh in! Reverberation of the Spirit is a daily podcast for Advent designed to help us rediscover the beauty of waiting, as we prepare for the coming of Christ. Listen every day in Advent in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed, trinitycathpdx.podb…

"Were you silent, or were you silenced?" About today's speaker: The Very Rev'd Nathan LeRud is Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Portland, OR. With degrees in theology (General Theological Seminary) and English (Whitman College), his great loves are teaching the Bible, exploring Oregon history, attending vintage matinees at the Hollywood Theatre and fin…

"Why do religious people have to be so serious?" About today's speaker: Liz Harlan-Ferlo is a writer, educator, facilitator and faith leader. Her debut collection of poems is Incarnation, Again, which was called "stunningly original and stylistically deft." In 2015, Liz founded Interfaith Muse, a project to explore how artists engage their faith li…

"Peace is here." About today's speaker: Laura Di Panfilo is Associate Rector at St. Paul's Episcopal in Mt. Lebanon, PA, and the host of the podcast And Also With You. She grew up in Massachusetts and is a graduate of Emory University where she completed a BA in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies. She earned her Master of Divinity at Princeton T…

"I have a complicated relationship with quiet." About today's speaker: Shana McCauley is Canon Vicar at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, an only child who was going to save the world as a journalist. After getting a journalism degree from the University of Washington, she meandered her way to a call…

"I found my first grey hair this week." About today's speaker: Caitlyn Keith is Associate Rector at St. Martin in the Fields, Columbia, SC. She grew up on the High Plains of Colorado but came East to attend the College of William and Mary where she earned a B.A. in religious studies, focusing on Hebrew scriptures and Christian ethics. Caitlyn was f…

"Joy is not perfect happiness." Sermon by Charissa Simmons, Canon for Spiritual Formation, recorded live at the 10:00am service on Sunday, December 17, 2023.By Trinity Cathedral Portland

"Luminous mysteries for a dark season." About today's speaker: The Rev. Phil Hooper serves as Rector of St. Anne Episcopal Church in West Chester, Ohio. Phil is a contributing writer for several Episcopal publications including Sermons that Work and Earth & Altar; he is also a retreat leader and a founding board member of the Center for Deep Green …

"Advent is about anticipation." About today's speaker: Stephen Isaacson is Prior of the Cornerstone Community, a lay Benedictine group within Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon. He has served in many other roles in the Cathedral and is currently the Co-coordinator of Outreach Ministries at the Cathedral. Prior to his involvement with O…