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Astonishing story… christianitytoday.com/2025/09/enemy-…

“…in the birth of a child, there is a new dawn with endless potential” - Queen Elizabeth II, Christmas Day 2021. Today, 21 April, it is 100 years since she was born! So some extracts from her annual reflections on another greater royal birth! threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604671…

Come and celebrate the Annunciation, at Evensong at 5:15, Thurs 26 March. Preacher is Rev. Andrew Schmidt, Rector of Randwick. Music by Hassler, Nixon, Forbes L'Estrange, Rachmaninoff & Bach

Please join me in praying urgently for the injured and families of victims of the shooting at Bondi Beach. Pray for the safety of the Jewish community and residents of Bondi. Pray for the police and medical teams in their work. Lord have mercy.

Great event @SydneyCathedral this afternoon. Dr Shareen Liggins in conversation with Clare Gibson (in a packed Chapter House!) on all things Austen, including her deep faith, especially expressed in the prayers she wrote.

We're excited to share with you this upcoming Advent Carols service @SydneyCathedral. The Rev Dr Mark Earngey (Chairman, PBS NSW) will be the preacher! Join us as we "cast away the works of darkness" and "put upon us the armour of light" 💫

Yesterday we were privileged to host the State Funeral for renowned broadcaster, Mr John Laws CBE. The service can be viewed again here: youtube.com/live/xSLEntDFe…

@AustAnglican @russellcrowe -you’re welcome anytime. Thank you for a poignant and heartfelt eulogy today.

Russell Crowe holding forth at the lectern @SydneyCathedral - there’s something you don’t see every day!

@AustAnglican We’re privileged to host the funeral of such an Australian legend.

I think it's been a while since the last State Funeral @SydneyCathedral! I wonder if they have a golden microphone?🎙️

@johnpauldickson @AerialTookie @SandmanGrant @KanishkaRaffel Will be a wonderful event- Archbishop Kanishka Raffel, John Dickson, our Cathedral Choir accompanied by String quintet singing the classical arrangement of the first hymn, Soprano Angela Brun and our cathedral organ belting out some great hymns!

@AerialTookie @SandmanGrant @SydneyCathedral @KanishkaRaffel Looks lovely!!

Looking forward to a classic experience of the First Hymn @SydneyCathedral – our city's home of classic Christianity. This Saturday at 5pm, with @johnpauldickson and @KanishkaRaffel! sydneycathedral.com/news-blog/the-…

Happy 140th Birthday, St Andrew's Cathedral School today. We are grateful to God for our partnership in Christian education and especially for the provision of choristers from the School to help us hear God’s Word and sing God’s praises!

29 June 2001: on St Peter's Day, the consecration and installation of Canon Peter Frederick Jensen, Principal @MooreCollege, @SydneyCathedral, as 8th Archbishop of Sydney (11th diocesan). #anglican @SydAnglicans #24years Retired 11 July 2013. No.258 in the Australian episcopate.

@earngey @mattwilcoxen @PBS_NSW Glad you liked the anthem- it’s pretty epic!

@mattwilcoxen @PBS_NSW @SydneyCathedral It was quite something. Ripper of an evening.

PBS NSW members among the many friends of Choral Evensong filling the choir and spilling over into the nave @SydneyCathedral to mark the Ascension today.

Introducing Elias Wilson, our glorious tenor soloist! Elias is a Young Artist with Opera Australia, and will be performing with three other Opera Australia artistes; Angela Brun, Ashlyn Tymms and Richard Anderson. Book now: trybooking.com/CYVSN

Our wonderful bass soloist for Good Friday’s Messiah- Richard Anderson trybooking.com/CYVSN

It’s nearing the most special Friday of the year- Good Friday! One of the ways we celebrate this extraordinary day is our annual performance of Handel’s Messiah at the Cathedral: 7pm Friday 18 April 2025 Book tickets here: trybooking.com/CYVSN

"Poor Sydney, I shall never see it again. I had no greater desire on earth than to go back and do a little more for the Lord, who has done so much for me. God will supply their need. The Lord Almightly bless them all. That is my message."

@AustAnglican He could have attended a full choral service in the ‘temporary’ wooden cathedral next door however, still sung by the cathedral choir before they moved into their permanent home!

28 March 1869 (Easter Day): Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, ventures to @SydneyCathedral for an afternoon "full choral service", something he could not have done the previous year as the Cathedral was not yet completed. #anglican #156years And then three days of races!