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.
2013
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6 January 2013 Sermon given at Matins on Epiphany 2013
The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence
This series of Residence Sermons at Matins considers the place of St John the Baptist, beginning here with his uncompromising message of repentance.
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6 January 2013 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Epiphany 2013
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
We, like the Wise Men, in St Paul’s words from this morning’s second lesson, must come to see ‘what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.'
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13 January 2013 Sermon given at Matins on The Baptism of Christ 2013
The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence
This series of Residence Sermons at Matins considers the place of St John the Baptist, today reflecting on the primacy of Jesus.
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20 January 2013 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 20th January 2013
The Reverend Dr Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
Some reflections on Vocation in the light of Isaiah 49.1
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27 January 2013 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 27th January 2013
The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence
On national Holocaust Memorial Day, this sermon considers the continuing importance of ‘a place and a name’ (Yad Veshem).
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27 January 2013 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 27th January 2013
The Reverend Dr James Hawkey, Minor Canon and Sacrist
The phrase “Think Global, act local” rings around much of English-speaking Western society – in environmental ethics, in business, in town-planning, in education, this is the current orthodoxy.
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1 February 2013 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the Eve of Candlemas 2013
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
This great and beautiful feast of Candlemas points us both backwards and forwards in the Church’s Year. It points us backward to Christmas and forward to the season of Lent and Easter so soon to come upon us.
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3 February 2013 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 3rd February 2013
The Reverend Dr Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
The first of three addresses reflecting on ‘Honest to God’, a best-selling theological book published fifty years ago.
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3 February 2013 Sermon given at Evensong on Sunday 3rd February 2013
The Reverend Peter McGeary, Priest Vicar
'In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth'. We need to see the text of Genesis 1, indeed much of the Bible, not so much as a repository of meaning but as a generator of rhythm.