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.
2010
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3 January 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 3 January 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
The first in a series of sermons on ‘What can we realistically believe about God?
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6 January 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Epiphany: Wednesday 6 January 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
Lying behind the modern democratic political system is a shadow structure that acknowledges the Sovereignty of Christ. The Dean said it was an important question how far elected politicians and we personally acknowledge in practice God’s Sovereignty
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10 January 2010 Sermon given at Matins Sunday 10 January 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
Continuing with the series on ‘What can we realistically believe about God?’ this looks at the God of the Bible.
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17 January 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Second Sunday of Epiphany, Sunday 17 January 2010: God and Science
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
Continuing the series of addresses on what we can realistically believe about God this examines the relation of science to notions of God.
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17 January 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Second Sunday of Epiphany: Sunday 17 January
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
Jesus did not change water into wine to revive the wedding party but as a sign that his life-giving sacrifice would render obsolete the rituals of the old covenant.
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24 January 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 24 January 2010: God and Suffering
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
Continuing with the theme of ‘what can we realistically believe about God?’ this looks at God and suffering.
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31 January 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 31 January 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
The conclusion of the series of address on what we can realistically believe about God
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2 February 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Candlemas: Tuesday 2 February 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
Within the beauty of the Candlemas celebration, we must discern the battle between light and darkness and align ourselves with Jesus Christ, the light of the world.
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7 February 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 7 February 2010: Sloth
The Reverend Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
During February Jane Hedges is looking at the subject of the Seven Deadly Sins and the series will be continued in March by Dr Nicholas Sagovsky. In this sermon she examines how the list of seven emerged and then talks about the sin of "Sloth" .
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7 February 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 7 February 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon of Westminster
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14 February 2010 Sermon given at Matins Sunday 14 February 2010: Lust
The Reverend Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
In the second of the series on the Seven Deadly Sins this sermon looks at the subject of Lust. It explores Biblical attitudes to sexual immorality and goes on to look at the contribution the Church can make in today’s society in encouraging healthy attitudes towards sex and the establishment of stable, loving relationships.
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17 February 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist with the Imposition of Ashes: Wednesday 17 February 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
‘Nothing less than Christ will do. We are to be imitators of Christ.’
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21 February 2010 Sermon given at Matins Sunday 21 February 2010: Greed
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon of Westminster
Greed has been defined as ‘an excessive, single-minded desire for gain’. Both Old and New Testaments provide stories to warn against greed. It’s all too easy to point the finger at others for being greedy. In a materialist society, we all need to cultivate the antidote to greed: generosity.
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24 February 2010 Sermon given at the 150th Anniversary Service for the RABI
The Right Reverend John Oliver, Honorary Chaplain and Trustee of RABI
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1 March 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Fourth Sunday of Lent: Sunday 14 March 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
In the story of the prodigal son, the elder brother needs to face the truth and reconciliation too.
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7 March 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 7 March 2010: Pride
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
Pride is the sin where our sense of our own power and importance runs out of control, and we end up putting ourselves in the place of God. Pride blinds us to the reality that, wonderful though human beings may be, we are just creatures, like other creatures, and it is good for us humbly to accept what God has willed for us. As Dante says, ‘In his will is our peace’.
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14 March 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 14 March 2010: Gluttony
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
Gluttony is one of the traditional deadly sins. In English, the word is mostly used for overeating, but it can be used of anything done to excess: being a glutton for food or wine or money or sex. We fast in Lent so we can be free from the kinds of excess which choke us spiritually. When we try seriously to confront our gluttony, we begin to feed the wellsprings of joy and generosity which bring fertility to the soul.
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25 March 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on The Annunciation of our Lord: Thursday 25 March 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
Celebrating the Annunciation in Passiontide helps us see both the beauty of God’s creation and the need for atonement between humanity and God.
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28 March 2010 Sermon given at a service to mark the 30th anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop Oscar Romero is commemorated as a martyr in the Church of England’s liturgical calendar on 24 March each year. His image is among ten statues of martyrs of the twentieth century placed over the Great West Doors of Westminster Abbey in 1998.
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1 April 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Maundy Thursday 1 April 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
This evening the Lord Jesus Christ welcomes us to a meal, to supper with him and his closest friends. The occasion is unusual; this will be no ordinary supper. The circumstances are strange, a little disturbing: there are threats and rumours all around. We are in an odd place: the Lord of all has nowhere of his own, nowhere to lay his head, but a room has been found; preparations have been made.
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4 April 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Easter Day: Sunday 4 April 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The late and slow emergence of daffodils and tulips after our long cold winter and in our late spring has somehow seemed right this year. In previous years I have often found a worrying mismatch between a blazing spring full of colour and vibrancy and the penitential Lenten mood of self-denial and abstinence. This year, in London anyway, the emergence of spring has, almost if not quite, waited for Easter: as if now nature with the Church is ready to celebrate the arrival of the season of hope and joy and new life.
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25 April 2010 Sermon given at a Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The Times reported ‘stirring scenes’. On 25th April 1916, it said, Anzac Day was ‘celebrated in London and throughout the Dominions.’ King George V and Queen Mary ‘were present at an impressive service in Westminster Abbey, in remembrance of a great deed by those of our brothers who died at Gallipoli … in the high cause of Freedom and Honour’.
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2 May 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 2 May 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
At the start of a series on what we can realistically believe about Jesus this examines Philip Pullman’s book ‘The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.’
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9 May 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 9 May 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
Jesus looked at in his first century context
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9 May 2010 Sermon given at a Service for Europe Day: Sunday 9 May 2010
Canon Guy Wilkinson, Secretary for Inter-Religious Affairs to the Archbishop of Canterbury
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16 May 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 16 May 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
In this month’s matins addresses I have been looking at the question of what we can realistically believe about Jesus, and it would be impossible to address that question without at some time looking at the miracle stories associated with Jesus in the Gospels. What are we to make of them?
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21 May 2010 Sermon given at a Service to Celebrate the 450th Anniversary of the Collegiate Foundation of St Peter: Friday 21 May 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
It is impossible for us to know what Queen Elizabeth I thought when she signed the Charter but it would not be surprising if she had thought of the turmoil the Abbey had undergone in the previous twenty years. The Charter makes it clear that she intended to end the turmoil. Of this renewed Collegiate Church, the Charter says that it is ‘in all future times to endure and to be inviolably observed.’ And so it has been for the past 450 years. There seems every reason to suppose it will continue as long as there is time on earth.
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23 May 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 23 May 2010: The Resurrection
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
What historical events lay behind the Resurrection
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23 May 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist: Pentecost Sunday 23 May
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The gift of the Holy Spirit day by day, which we celebrate at Pentecost, frees us from fear and self-regard and focuses our attention on the final purpose and goal of our lives, our chief end: to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.
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30 May 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Trinity Sunday 30 May 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
‘May the wounded loving heart of our great God reach and wound our hearts this day with his vulnerable love.’
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8 June 2010 Sermon given at a Service for the New Parliament: St Margaret's Church Tuesday 8 June 2010
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
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29 June 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the Festival of St Peter the Apostle: Tuesday 29 June 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The life of Westminster Abbey is so rich in the anniversaries of the men and women who are buried or memorialised here and of the great events that have happened through the thousand years and more of our wonderful story that to say of any year that it is likely to go down in history as remarkable is to make a bold claim. And yet, it is I believe justifiable in relation to this year that we are all experiencing.
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4 July 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 4 July 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
Over the next few weeks I want to talk about five classics of Christian literature. Each is in its own way a book that helps us pray – to come directly into touch with God.
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4 July 2010 Sermon given at the Civic Service on Sunday 4 July 2010.
Reverend Gary Bradley, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of Westminster
Embracing so much of what Jesus Christ said about leadership, is what we celebrate today as we give thanks for our Lord Mayor and City and pray for them.
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11 July 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 11 July 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
This week I want to look at a longer book, written shortly after The Cloud of Unknowing: The Ladder of Perfection by Walter Hilton. Hilton invites us all, nuns and monks, lay people and clergy, to experience in prayer what God longs to give us – which is above all the gift of his peace.
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18 July 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 18 July 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
Today I want to talk about the most popular of all the fourteenth century mystical writings, The Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich. This is the record of Julian’s own experience, of sixteen visions or ‘shewings’, which she had on 8 and 9 May, 1373.
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25 July 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 25 July 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
This week I shall speak about a book written in Latin, The Imitation of Christ. Thomas à Kempis knows a great deal about the secrets of survival in a world that seems to be spinning out of control. For Thomas, our relationship with Christ is the key to living with serenity and joy.
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1 August 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 1 August 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
I want to speak this morning about a little book from a later period: the Practice of the Presence of God. Though the book is about the experience of a Carmelite (that is a Catholic) lay brother, it was a favourite of John Wesley, and my copy was published by the Methodist Epworth Press.
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8 August 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 8 August 2010
The Reverend David Hutt, Canon Emeritus of Westminster
On Sundays here at the Abbey there’s no visiting, that’s to say, services are the priority and worship takes precedence over all else. But an important part of the medieval monastic building may be visited freely and that’s the area of the cloisters you will pass through after this service.
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8 August 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 8 August 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon of Westminster
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs considered in the light of some words of Jesus.
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15 August 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist for The Blessed Virgin Mary on Sunday 15 August 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
Last week I had some space in the diary that allowed me to spend a little time on the floor of the Abbey amongst the thronging visitors. I was loitering at one point in the south aisle of the Lady Chapel, smiling at people as they passed and soliciting overwhelmingly appreciative comments. One or two people stopped to ask me questions. One question was about the number of tombs and the space they took up in the chapel. It eventually became clear that this visitor, for whom English was not her first language, had assumed that the Lady Chapel was, in old times, the place where women worshipped whilst the men worshipped elsewhere. I can imagine a slight sense of indignation that the women gathered in so small a place, even though so beautiful, by comparison with the space allocated to the men. I was not at all clear at the end of our conversation whether she quite understood that the Lady Chapel was the chapel dedicated in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as Our Lady.
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29 August 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 29 August 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon of Westminster
The Gospel we have just heard is about squabbles over who sits in the best seats at banquets, in the synagogue - or in church. The news this week makes all that seem very petty as we see the pictures of the terrible flooding in Pakistan.
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5 September 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 5 September 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
This sermon examines the life of Hensley Henson, former canon of Westminster Abbey.
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12 September 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 12 September 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
An address about Bishop Ernest William Barnes, a former Canon of Westminster
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12 September 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 12 September 2010: The meaning of the papal visit
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The Dean interpreted the meaning of the forthcoming papal visit to the Abbey in the light of the history of the Church in this country since the Reformation.
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17 September 2010 Address given by His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury at Evening Prayer in Westminster Abbey on the occasion of the Visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Britain
Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan
Christians in Britain, especially in England, look back with the most fervent gratitude to the events of 597, when Augustine landed on these shores to preach the gospel to the Anglo-Saxons at the behest of Pope St Gregory the Great. For Christians of all traditions and confessions, St Gregory is a figure of compelling attractiveness and spiritual authority – pastor and leader, scholar and exegete and spiritual guide. The fact that the first preaching of the Gospel to the English peoples in the sixth and seventh centuries has its origins in his vision creates a special connection for us with the See of the Apostles Peter and Paul; and Gregory’s witness and legacy remain an immensely fruitful source of inspiration for our own mission in these dramatically different times. Two dimensions of that vision may be of special importance as we reflect today on the significance of Your Holiness’s visit to us.
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17 September 2010 Address of the Pope given at a Service of Evening Prayer
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI
I thank you for your gracious welcome. This noble edifice evokes England’s long history, so deeply marked by the preaching of the Gospel and the Christian culture to which it gave birth. I come here today as a pilgrim from Rome, to pray before the tomb of Saint Edward the Confessor and to join you in imploring the gift of Christian unity. May these moments or prayer and friendship confirm us in love for Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, and in common witness to the enduring power of the Gospel to illumine the future of this great nation.
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19 September 2010 Sermon on the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain
The Venerable Raymond Pentland QHC RAF, Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force
We are here in this house of God, this place of prayer, because 70 years ago, a generation of young men, supported by the many, took to the skies, and through their bravery and sacrifice won our Freedom.
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26 September 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 26 September 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon in Residence
Canon F Russell Barry was Canon of Westminster until 1941, when he went to be Bishop of Southwell. This address looks at his lessons for us today.
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26 September 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist, St Margaret's Church Sunday 26 September 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
A sermon preached by the Dean of Westminster at the farewell Eucharist at St Margaret’s Church Westminster Abbey for the Rector, Canon Robert Wright, including some reflections on the recent visit of the Pope.
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27 September 2010 Sermon given at Evensong attended by members of the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools: Monday 27 September 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The Dean preached at Evensong to Headmasters and Headmistresses attending the annual conference of IAPS, the Independent Association of Prep Schools.
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29 September 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on St Michael and All Angels: Wednesday 29 September 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The Dean’s Michaelmas sermon focuses attention on the worship of the angels in heaven and on the way God reaches out to us and touches and changes our lives.
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3 October 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 3 October 2010: Creation Series: Animal Welfare Sunday
The Reverend Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
On Animal Welfare Sunday this sermon reflects on the way animals are viewed and treated in Western society and explores the relationship between humans and animals especially our responsibilities towards them and the companionship they share with us.
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3 October 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 3 October 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon of Westminster
The Gospel reading this morning began with ‘the apostles’ saying to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith’. The answer they are given is very strange: ‘The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”’ If I had asked – as we have just asked in the Collect - for the Lord to increase my faith and I got that answer, I would think it was no answer at all. Jesus doesn’t answer the question. He says, ‘If you had even the tiniest bit of faith, you could do the most extraordinary things.’ How does his answer in any way help to increase my faith? I’ve been puzzling about this through this week, since I began to reflect seriously on this gospel reading.
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9 October 2010 Sermon given at the Installation of Canon Tremlett Saturday 9 October 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The Dean gave the address at the installation of the Reverend Andrew Tremlett as a Canon of Westminster.
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10 October 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 10 October 2010: Creation Series: Food
The Reverend Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
This sermon explores our attitude to food, looking at how food it is associated in the Bible with celebration, hospitality and generosity and how sharing meals played an important part in the ministry of Jesus. It also looks at the issues of both excessive consumption of food and of hunger in our world and how we respond to these issues as Christians.
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10 October 2010 Sermon given at Evening Service Sunday 10 October 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon of Westminster
On the day the Church of England commemorates Thomas Traherne this address examines his life and thought.
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12 October 2010 Sermon given at the Inauguration of the Ministry of the Speaker’s Chaplain, St Margaret's Church Tuesday 12 October 2010
The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Richard Chartres KCVO, Lord Bishop of London
“What a thing of naught is a Chaplain!” So said John Milton, Latin Secretary to the Commonwealth on hearing that Charles I had complained about being denied the attendance of his chaplains. Despite Milton’s scorn, the Speaker has appointed a Chaplain since 1660 and Rose is the latest in the line. There is however a grain of truth in the poet’s splenetic outburst. In a place where big beasts prowl, the Chaplain works best by not being feared. She cannot kill by looks.
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17 October 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 17 October 2010 for the Feast of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
The Dean’s sermon for the feast of the dedication, celebrating the consecration of the Abbey Church (current building) on 13 October 1269.
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24 October 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 24 October 2010: Creation Series: Water
The Reverend Dr Jane Hedges, Canon in Residence
This sermon examines the critical place water has in our lives and at how it also plays a central part in religious symbolism ~ symbolising both life and death. We are challenged to appreciate water as a precious gift and to think about the problems of both flooding and water shortage brought about by global warming.
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24 October 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 24 October 2010
The Reverend Robert Reiss, Canon of Westminster
An examination for today of the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector.
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1 November 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day: Monday 1 November 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
In the Dean’s All Saints’ Day sermon, he recognised the call for Christians, inevitably influenced by the world, to be positively engaged with the world for the sake of the Gospel.
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2 November 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on All Souls' Day: Tuesday 2 November 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
Most of us come to this service tonight with vivid memories of departed relatives and friends, with a sense of loss and with a degree of pain. We remember those we have loved and who have loved us, those we love still, but from whom we are now parted. For some, the sense of loss and pain is recent and sharp; others have come to terms with the loss and find the pain deadened by the years. We know that those from whom we are parted would not have wanted us to grieve – and yet, naturally, we do, even when we are thankful for a long life well lived, or for a period of acute suffering and privation ended. Where death has been sudden or tragic death, we can be left mystified, bewildered as to what happened and why – and what might have been.
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7 November 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 7 November 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
During the recent visit of the Pope to Britain, there was a great deal of interest in John Henry Newman. I want this morning to sketch, with the help of Newman’s Apologia, written in 1864, something of what Newman has to teach both Anglicans and Roman Catholics today. Each of these points, it seems to me, is important for us whether we are Anglican or Roman Catholic: the importance of belonging to the visible church and of the place of bishops within the church; the centrality of certitude and of personal assent in Christian believing; the part the Christian faith can play in enriching university life and inspiring the ongoing search for truth. Seen from our perspective today, Newman can be someone who unites rather than divides.
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14 November 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 14 November 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
This morning I want to look at Newman’s thinking about the development of Christian doctrine. The teaching and worship of the Church has indeed grown – but Newman also helps us see how it has remained – and must remain - fundamentally the same. Faced with new developments in the life of the Church of England today, such as the acceptance of women as priests and bishops, Newman has made clear the question we need to ask: Is this a legitimate development or not? In his time, he would undoubtedly have said ‘no’, just as the Roman Catholic Church officially says no today. Anglicans who want to argue that these are legitimate developments, as I want to do, must show how they are faithful to the life and identity of the Church.
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21 November 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 21 November 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
Newman wanted us to know that truth is not something human beings make up. There are statements which can be proved logically to which we give intellectual or notional assent. We can be certain they are true. There are statements which can be proved experimentally to which we give real assent – because we have tested them and we know them to be so: of these things we can also be certain. There are statements about God and humanity which are true and to which we give real assent, but which can only be proved in our personal experience: of these we can have certitude - but only if we reach out in faith to grasp with our whole mind this truth that comes to us from God.
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28 November 2010 Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 28 November 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence
Today I want to look at Newman’s ideas on Christian education. Newman believed that a university exists to communicate truth. Since the most precious truths available to human being are those which tell us about God, these must be taught freely within the university (as within schools). It was his hope that in this life we could pass ‘out of shadows and fantasies into the truth’. For him this was what lifelong Christian learning is all about.
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12 December 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Sunday 12 December 2010
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon of Westminster
In the Gospel reading this morning John the Baptist has a wobble. ‘When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?” Jesus replied with the coded message, ‘Be strong, do not fear. Here is your God’ Perhaps then John’s eyes were opened to see as he never saw before, his ears to hear as he never heard before, the good news of the Kingdom.
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24 December 2010 Sermon given at the First Eucharist of Christmas Friday 24 December 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
In his sermon at the Midnight Eucharist the Dean of Westminster reflected on the longing that we should see the mystery at the heart of the universe: God’s love.
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25 December 2010 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Christmas Day Saturday 25 December 2010
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
In his Christmas day sermon, the Dean of Westminster speaks of the gentle love of God revealed in God’s Son our Lord Jesus Christ.