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• Reflection for the Feast of the Holy Name

  Wednesday, 1st January 2025

  Discover how the Feast of the Holy Name and the Abbey's Islip Chapel are connected, in this reflection from The Reverend Canon James Hawkey.

• Holy Communion

  Service in which the Holy Scriptures are read, prayers offered, and bread and wine consecrated and received as the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

• Lady Chapel

  The 16th-century historian John Leland called the Henry VII Lady Chapel ‘the wonder of the world’ and it continues to inspire wonder amongst visitors today.

  Architecture

• Sermon at a Meditation for Holy Week 2021

  Monday, 29th March 2021

  Sermon at a Meditation for Holy Week 2021: The beginning of the Church is often ascribed to Pentecost and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

• Holy Saturday

  Saturday, 19th April 2025

  Today, the Church sits in silence, remembering Christ's body being laid in the tomb. The Reverend Catherine Williams considers the meaning of this day of prayer and reflection.

• RAF Chapel

  At the eastern end of the Lady Chapel is the Royal Air Force chapel dedicated to the men who died in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

  Notable people

• Reflection: Holy Saturday

  Monday, 1st January 0001

  Read or listen to the reflection for Holy Saturday

• Sermon Given at The Chapel Royal St James's Palace on Good Friday 2016

  Friday, 25th March 2016

  Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

• Homily given at the morning Holy Communion on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2024

  Sunday, 21st July 2024

  Beware of false prophets!

• A Homily given at Holy Communion on Sunday 4 August 2024

  Sunday, 4th August 2024

  When did you last have a good cry?

• Sermon at Matins on Christmas Day 2016

  Sunday, 25th December 2016

  Sermon at Matins on Christmas Day 2016: What’s in a name? What’s in a name? The famous quotation from Shakespeare assures us that a rose by any other name would smell as.

• Holy Week and Easter

  Make Westminster Abbey a part of your Lent & Holy Week this year.

  Holy Week Holy Week and Easter Easter

• Sermon given at Holy Communion on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

  Sunday, 25th September 2022

  Sermon given at Holy Communion on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity: Will we perish like fools or learn to live together as brothers and sisters? A few days ago, I met Lazarus:.

• Sermon given at Holy Communion on the Feast of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey, 2022

  Sunday, 16th October 2022

  Sermon given at Holy Communion on the Feast of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey, 2022: What does it mean to talk about being dedicated today? The 13 October 1269—two coffins lay side by.

• Henry VII's Lady Chapel

• Sermon Given at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, Good Friday 2017

  Friday, 14th April 2017

  Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

• Holy Week: a short guide for primary

• Holy Week: a short guide for secondary

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2025

  Sunday, 26th January 2025

  To speak is holy. To listen is holy.

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

  Sunday, 29th September 2024

  British holy sites series: IV Canterbury