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• Sermon given at Midnight Mass, Christmas 2019

  Tuesday, 24th December 2019

  It is my first Christmas in the Abbey, I have been here a month. Kind people keep asking me if I am looking forward to my first Christmas here.

  Midnight Mass

• Taverner: Western Wynde Mass

  James O’Donnell brings composer John Taverner to the fore, presenting two of the undisputed choral masterpieces from sixteenth-century England.

• Address given at a Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving on Remembrance Sunday 2025

  Sunday, 9th November 2025

  Ours must be a moral remembrance, one that stays the course.

• Sermon given at Midnight Mass at Christmas 2018

  Monday, 24th December 2018

  ‘When the angels had left them, the shepherds said one to another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.”’

• Music for Remembrance

  To mark 100 years since the start of the Great War this recording explores remembrance, with Britten Sinfonia and soloists Christine Rice and Roderick Williams.

• Address given at the Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving on Remembrance Sunday 2024

  Sunday, 10th November 2024

  Being accurate and honest about the past is constant, hard work.

• Remembrance lesson for primary

• Remembrance lesson for secondary

• Remembrance image bank

• Christopher Tye: Missa Euge bone & Western Wynde Mass

  A well-judged selection of sacred music by sixteenth-century English composer Christopher Tye, including his masterpiece the Missa Euge bone.

• Our Lady of Pew

  The Society of Our Lady of Pew venerates the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, and regularly holds Mass and retreats in the Abbey.

• Remembrance

  The Grave of the Unknown Warrior is one of the most famous remembrance memorials in the country but Westminster Abbey's connections to remembrance stretch far beyond this grave's poppy border. Unearth the story of the Unknown Warrior, make a poppy and explore the stained-glass windows of the RAF chapel.

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2019

  Tuesday, 26th March 2019

  Speaker: The Reverend Professor Michael Banner, Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge; Chair: The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster

  Charles Gore Memorial Lectures

• Address given at a service to recognise fifty years of Continuous At Sea Deterrent

  Friday, 3rd May 2019

  We do owe a debt of gratitude to all those countless men and women who in the past fifty years have maintained the deterrent.

• Remembrance Live

  Remember Remembrance differently this year, live from Westminster Abbey. Join us online to explore how stories of conflict, memory and meaning are woven into this important site of national remembrance.

• Sermon at a Service of Morning Prayer in Thanksgiving for the Life of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

  Sunday, 11th April 2021

  A sermon remembering the life and work of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

• The Field of Remembrance

  Saturday, 27th October 2007

  On Thursday November 8th His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh will open The Royal British Legion Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey.

  Field of Remembrance

• Field of Remembrance

  Thursday, 10th November 2005

  Her Majesty The Queen accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh visited the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on 10 November.

• Field of Remembrance

  Thursday, 8th November 2007

  HRH The Duke of Edinburgh opened the Royal British Legion Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th November.

• War dead honoured at the Field of Remembrance

  Thursday, 7th November 2024

  HRH The Duchess of Gloucester opened the 96th Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th November 2024.

  Remembrance