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Concert for Holy Week: Bach - St Matthew Passion
Tuesday, 26th March 2024
The Choir of Westminster Abbey is joined by leading period-instrument orchestra St. James' Baroque for this Holy Week performance of Bach’s powerful Matthäus-Passion (St Matthew Passion), sung in German.
Choir of Westminster Abbey event Music Holy Week and Easter Easter
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Sermon given at Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, 2020
Sunday, 5th July 2020
We closed the Abbey doors on 20th March; a little over a hundred days ago. Then, this place of national memorial and celebration, this church that welcomes over a million visitors a year, went quiet.
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Cody Simpson performs What a Wonderful World
Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh attended The Commonwealth Service: A Celebration of the Commonwealth at Westminster Abbey on Monday 13th March 2017. They were accompanied by The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry, The Duke of York and The Earl of Wessex.
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Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Lent 2022
Sunday, 20th February 2022
Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Lent 2022: To begin to understand the present precarious situation in Ukraine we first need to understand what has happened in the past..
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Hope
The capacity to hope is common to human experience, and often confounds easy answers.
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An Abbey welcome to Holy Week and Easter
Friday, 23rd March 2018
Westminster Abbey and St Margaret’s Church welcome worshippers and visitors to our annual celebration of Holy Week, the most solemn week of the Church’s year, culminating in the most joyful festival, Easter Day.
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Katharine Jefferts Schori preaches at Abbey
Monday, 15th June 2015
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Katharine Jefferts Schori has preached at Evensong on 14th June during a visit to Westminster Abbey.
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Look closer
Visit the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries to see the Litlyngton Missal, and many more objects, in real life. High above the Abbey floor, come face to face with the Abbey’s greatest treasures covering over 1,000 years of faith and history. Along with worship, examine objects that teach us about the building of Westminster Abbey, its role in national memory and its relationship with royalty.
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Sermon Given at the Evensong with Valediction of Choristers 2017
Sunday, 9th July 2017
Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall Dean of Westminster.
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Join us at Evensong
We’ve been a place of worship since the tenth century. We hold services every day, and music is an important feature of many of them.
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Patrons lend their support to the St Margaret’s Choristers
Friday, 1st March 2024
Five patrons from across the worlds of public service and the arts have lent their support to the St Margaret’s Choristers – a new girls’ choir founded at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, last year.
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Sermon at Ascension Day 2019
Thursday, 30th May 2019
We celebrate today the last of our Lord’s resurrection appearances.
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Transfiguration and Music
Sunday, 11th February 2018
Sermon given by The Venerable David Stanton, Canon Treasurer and Archdeacon of Westminster.
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Big picture
Visit the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries to see Prince William and Catherine Middleton's marriage licence, and many more objects, in real life. High above the Abbey floor, come face to face with the Abbey’s greatest treasures covering over 1,000 years of faith and history. Along with worship, examine objects that teach us about the building of Westminster Abbey, its role in national memory and its relationship with royalty.
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Big picture
Visit the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries to see this column capital, and many more objects, in real life. High above the Abbey floor, come face to face with the Abbey’s greatest treasures covering over 1,000 years of faith and history. Along with worship, examine objects that teach us about the building of Westminster Abbey, its role in national memory and its relationship with royalty.
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31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 26th May 2016
Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.
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Queen Elizabeth II remembered during Royal carol service
Saturday, 24th December 2022
Tributes were paid to HM Queen Elizabeth II during the second annual Royal Carols: Together at Christmas service at Westminster Abbey.
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Sermon given at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2021
Sunday, 4th July 2021
Sermon given at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2021: Without darkness and weakness, how would the need for real humour arise? Over these many months of pandemic I’ve found a.
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Westminster Abbey celebrates Our Lady of Walsingham
Tuesday, 7th May 2019
Westminster Abbey, in collaboration with the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, held a day of celebration in honour of Our Lady of Walsingham.
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Abbey responds to Covid-19 guidance
Monday, 4th January 2021
Westminster Abbey has reviewed its daily and Sunday service timetable to reflect the latest Government’s latest Covid-19 guidance, at the same time ensuring that daily public worship can be sustained.