Each Sunday five separate sermons are delivered at Westminster Abbey or St Margaret's. The Abbey's clergy and guest preachers address current theological issues, religion and world events, and the interpretation of biblical texts.
2012
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22 January 2012 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 22nd January 2012
The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon Theologian
Is there anything new in life to hope for? Neither history nor science can give a clear answer - and depression and anxiety can easily drain us this hope out of us. But Christian faith is adamant. Transformation is always possible, new wine out of the old is always promised.
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29 January 2012 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 29th January 2012
The Reverend Dr Paul Bradshaw, Priest Vicar
Mark's is the martyr gospel, the one to turn to when the road is hard and doubts set in. You will find it a tough, uncompromising account, but one full of hope.
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11 March 2012 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 11th March 2012
The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon of Westminster and Rector of St Margaret's
How do we move on and bring to a resolution national crises and public scandals?
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6 May 2012 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 6th May 2012
The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon of Westminster and Rector of St Margaret's
Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
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2 September 2012 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 2nd September 2012
The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon of Westminster and Rector of St Margaret's Church
One of the vagaries of contemporary church life is to do with the choice of readings, Sunday by Sunday. And while there are many things for which I happily accept responsibility, the Lectionary, the fruit of countless years of international committee-work, is not one of them.
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9 September 2012 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 9th September 2012
The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon of Westminster and Rector of St Margaret's Church
What on earth are you doing that for? It’s a story I’ve told in a different context, but, I hope, one which will bear re-telling here.
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25 November 2012 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Christ the King 2012
The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon of Westminster and Rector of St Margaret's
The Festival of Christ the King, the last Sunday in Trinity before the new Christian year begins next Sunday at Advent, gives us an opportunity to reflect on how the Christian Church relates to temporal, political and imperial power.