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Why is the Resurrection so important to Christians today?

1st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

Wednesday, 4th June 1986

Delivered by His Eminence Cardinal Basil Hume OSB, Archbishop of Westminster at Westminster Abbey.

Sermon preached at Evensong on St Peter's Day 2025

Sunday, 29th June 2025

'Do you love me?' Share my mission.

Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2019

Sunday, 23rd June 2019

Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2019: Wanting the best for our children. The theme that connects our two readings today is wanting the best for our children. Both.

Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Easter 2022

Sunday, 1st May 2022

Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2022: Love bade me welcome. Someone I knew was recovering from an operation. They were not an easy patient, being.

Sermon preached in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft on 5 February 2025

Wednesday, 5th February 2025

Go away from me, Lord, for I am sinful.

33rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

Thursday, 24th May 2018

Speaker: The Reverend Richard Coles FKC, Vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire

Sermon given at the Installation of Paul Baumann CBE as Receiver General

Saturday, 12th January 2019

"This time of year seems to me to leave us in a state of querulous anxiety."

Paul Baumann Receiver General

One People Oration 2016

Monday, 14th November 2016

Speaker: Lord Evans of Weardale, former Head of MI5; Chair: The Very Reverend Dr John Hall

Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christi 2021

Thursday, 3rd June 2021

Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christi 2021: Today is a feast of food, and it is a feast of the body. Jesus said, “Whoever eats me.

Sermon at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2019

Sunday, 7th April 2019

Sermon at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2019: Today is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end Today we mark the beginning of Passiontide and it.

Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2023

Sunday, 14th May 2023

Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2023: ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.’ ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.’

Sermon given at Civic Matins 2022

Sunday, 3rd July 2022

Sermon given at Civic Matins 2022: What are you supposed to be? That interests me this morning. Let me take you back nearly 500 years. In December 1540, the City of Westminster.

Sermon given on the Day of Pentecost

Sunday, 9th June 2019

‘I am in the Father and the Father is in me.’ And he said, ‘I am going to the Father.’

Sermon at Evensong of the Baptism of Christ 2020

Sunday, 12th January 2020

Sermon at Evensong of the Baptism of Christ 2020: Today, again is Epiphany, today is Theophany. The Baptism of Jesus by John in the River Jordan which we celebrate today is one.

Sermon preached at the Festival Eucharist in the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor

Saturday, 18th October 2025

'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.’

Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

Sunday, 4th August 2024

Let me introduce you to a heresy and explain how you might avoid it.

Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity

Sunday, 30th June 2024

You hid your face from me and I was utterly dismayed.

Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2021

Sunday, 2nd May 2021

Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2021: Jesus said, Abide in me… I am the Vine, you are the branches. Jesus said, Abide in me… I am.

Address at the Evening Service on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2018

Sunday, 19th August 2018

Address at the Evening Service on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2018: ‘I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see; I sought my God, but my God eluded me..