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  • Where, why and how do Christians pray?

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  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Christmas 2018

    Sunday, 30th December 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Christmas 2018: There is so much we do not know... Over Christmas, so we are informed, almost half the population of the.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2022

    Sunday, 19th June 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2022: There has been much talk of borders in recent weeks. There has been much talk of borders in recent.

  • 15th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 4th May 2000

    Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Martyn Percy at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 2000 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and the Cathedral, Sheffield.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2021

    Sunday, 6th June 2021

    Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2021: How is your soul? It would have been a tough job description; who could have sustained this calling? When God called Jeremiah,.

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2006

    Tuesday, 23rd May 2006

    It is a proper tribute to Charles Gore, Canon of Westminster, bishop successively of three dioceses, founder of the Community of the Resurrection and distinguished theologian, that a lecture should be named in his honour.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 3rd September 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: How will you engage in community with others in the Church? In the name of the Father, and of.

  • Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020

    Sunday, 1st March 2020

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020: What is evil? How would we have knowledge of it? In recent years I have found myself increasingly subject.

  • 32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th May 2017

    Salley Vickers addresses the crucial role of the arts in giving shape and form to abiding intangible realities, suggesting the vital importance of nurturing the imagination through the arts in an increasingly secular society.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Lent 2019

    Sunday, 17th March 2019

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Lent 2019: How far will we go for our neighbour? How far will we go to live a properly Christian life?.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Sunday next before Lent 2021

    Sunday, 14th February 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Sunday next before Lent 2021: For St Peter it doesn’t get much better than Moses and Elijah. ‘Let us make three dwellings’, said Peter,.

  • 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.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

    Sunday, 9th September 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: The Lord’s Prayer; how we should pray, and with what attitude and with what motives. Our second lesson this afternoon, from St.

  • 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.

  • The Cloisters

    The Cloisters date mainly from the 13th to the 15th centuries and were where the Abbey’s monks spent much of their time.

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  • Healing

    Find out about and watch a series of lectures and discussions that explore how we might heal divisions in public life.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2018

    Sunday, 3rd June 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2018: How can we learn again, what it means to live in a rhythm of work and rest? In Canary Wharf.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2023

    Sunday, 1st January 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2023: A reflection on a much-overlooked part of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Matthew, and encourages us to.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2019

    Sunday, 9th June 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Day of Pentecost 2019: 'Time is how you spend your love.' At the beginning of her novel On Beauty, Zadie Smith quotes a line from a poem.

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